Who Is Tamilisai? Telangana Governor who gets additional charge of Puducherry

Tamilisai Soundarajan: Tamilisai Soundarajan is going to take charge of Lt-Governor of Puducherry's office as Kiran Bedi has been removed.

Soundarajan, the governor of Telangana was directed to take up the charge of Puducherry Lieutenant-Governor on Tuesday as the President's office removed Kiran Bedi from the post. As per the statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhawan, Soundarajan will look over Puducherry is its Lt-Governor in addition to her duties. This order will be carried forward until a new appointment is made for Puducherry.

Here is what we know of Tamilisai Soundarajan:

• Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has been given the additional charge of Puducherry after Kiran Bedi was asked to step down.
• She is the current Governor of Telangana and former President of the Tamil Nadu BJP
• Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan, Governor of Telangana, to discharge the functions of the Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry, in addition to her own duties, with effect from the date she assumes charge of her office, until regular arrangements for the office of Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry are made
• Soundararajan was raised in a political family and that's where she got keenly involved and interested political life.
• Soundararajan was made Tamil Nadu BJP president in 2014, the first for any woman. She has unsuccessfully contested in two Assembly elections and two Parliamentary elections in the past.

Tamilisai is the former Tamil Nadu BJP chief who was later sworn in as Telangana Governor

• Soundararajan is a doctor by training.
• She is the daughter of former Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President Kumari Anandan and niece of Congress MP from Kanyakumari, H. Vasanthakumar.