Jump to navigationJump to search<br />The Honourable<br />E. S. L. Narasimhan<br />Governor of Andhra Pradesh<br />Incumbent<br />Assumed office <br />27 December 2009<br />Chief Minister K. Rosaiah<br />N. Kiran Kumar Reddy<br />N. Chandrababu Naidu<br />Preceded by Narayan Dutt Tiwari<br />Governor of Telangana<br />Incumbent<br />Assumed office <br />2 June 2014<br />Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao<br />Preceded by office created<br />Governor of Chhattisgarh<br />In office<br />25 January 2007 – 27 December 2009<br />Preceded by Krishna Mohan Seth<br />Succeeded by Shekhar Dutt<br />Director of Intelligence Bureau<br />In office<br />February 2005 – December 2006<br />Personal details<br />Born 1946 (age 72–73)[1]<br />Madras Presidency, British India<br />(now Tamil Nadu, India)<br />Spouse(s) Vimala Narasimhan<br />Residence Raj Bhavan, Hyderabad<br />Alma mater Presidency College, Madras Law College<br />Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan (born 1946)[1] is the Governor of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. [2] He assumed office of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh in December 2009 and Governor of Telangana on 2 June 2014.[3] A retired Indian Police Service officer, he previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau from February 2005 to December 2006.[4] He also been as the Governor of Chhattisgarh from 2007 to 2009.<br />Narasimhan belongs to the 1968 batch of IPS from Andhra Pradesh cadre. He served as the First Secretary in the Embassy of India in Moscow from 1981 to 1984. He is highly respected police official.<br /><br />He worked in the Intelligence Bureau for many years until retiring as the director of the bureau on 31 December 2006. He is also an alumnus of the prestigious National Defence College, New Delhi.<br /><br />Political career<br />On 19 January 2007, Narasimhan was appointed Governor of Chhattisgarh, and took office on 25 January. On 27 December 2009, he took additional charge as acting Governor of Andhra Pradesh, from Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who resigned after a sex scandal] On 23 January 2010, he was formally appointed to the governorship of Andhra Pradesh, upon leaving office in Chhattisgarh.<br /><br />With the process for formation of a separate Telangana state entering crucial phase, Andhra Pradesh Governor Narasimhan held a series of meeting with central leaders in the national capital on 23 October 2013.<br /><br />Summoned by the Centre for consultations before the efforts to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh are intensified, Narasimhan held separate meetings with United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram.<br /><br />Narasimhan first met Chidambaram, who is a member of the Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted to work out modalities for formation of the Telangana state. During the meeting, which lasted for 30 minutes, the governor is believed to have discussed various issues that may arise post-bifurcation.The governor later called on the UPA chairperson and briefed her on the latest situation in the state in the wake of the decision to carve Telangana state. He is learnt to have presented a report on the bifurc
