Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday was appointed as the Governor of Kerala laying to rest speculations of her contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from the national capital.
According to reports, Governor of Kerala Nikhil Kumar has resigned from his post and is likely to contest the elections from the Aurangabad seat in Bihar, which he had won in 2004.
Highly placed sources said tonight that the decision has been conveyed to 75-year-old Dikshit, who will succeed Nikhil Kumar, a former Delhi Police Commissioner, a PTI report said.
The party top brass took the decision keeping in mind the poor show of Congress in the last year`s Delhi Assembly Elections, reports said.
Dikshit, who had contested the 2013 Assembly Elections from the New Delhi Constituency, had lost against the newly formed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal with a big margin of around 20000 votes.
The Congress came a poor third bagging eight seats in a House of 70.
She served as the chief minister of Delhi from 1998 to 2013. Dikshit led the Congress party, to a record three consecutive electoral victories in the national capital.
Meanwhile, RJD President Lalu Prasad visited Nikhil Kumar`s home in Patna.
RJD and Congress sources confirmed the visit of Prasad to seek the blessings of Kumar`s mother Kishori Sinha and to meet the Kerala Governor.
Kumar is son of veteran Congress leader and former Bihar chief minister Satyendra Narayan Singh.
