Banwarilal Purohit was engaged in a confrontation with the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government for most of his nearly three-year-long tenure in the border state.
A no-nonsense and people-friendly head of the Chandigarh administration, Purohit’s tenure was marked by controversies that often put him at odds with interest groups in the city
The 84-year-old Maharashtra politician, Banwarilal Purohit, who came to Punjab as governor in September 2021 after gubernatorial stints in Tamil Nadu, Assam and Meghalaya, was engaged in a confrontation with the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for most part of his nearly three-year-long tenure in the border state