Guv drops lsquoher excellencyrsquo salutation says uncomfortable with colonial legacy

Dehradun | Thursday | 15th November, 2018

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Dehradun: Uttarakhand governor Baby Rani Maurya has issued orders to not be addressed as ‘her excellency, the governor’, instead she will be addressed as ‘honourable governor’. Maurya issued the orders on Wednesday through secretary to the governor R K Sudhanshu. She succeeded Krishan Kant Paul, who served as governor of Uttarakhand from January 2015 to 25 August 2018. The governor told TOI that she was not comfortable with the “colonial legacy of salutation”.Maurya added, “We are working for common people so what’s the need for such titles. Maurya has previously served as mayor of Agra..