E. S. L. Narasimhan
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His Excellency Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan |
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E. S. L. Narasimhan (left) with Narendra Modi
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| Governor of Telangana | |
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Assumed office 2 June 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Governor of Andhra Pradesh | |
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Assumed office 27 December 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Narayan Dutt Tiwari |
| Governor of Chhattisgarh | |
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In office 25 January 2007 – 23 January 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Krishna Mohan Seth |
| Succeeded by | Shekhar Dutt |
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| Born | 1945 (age 71–72) Madras Presidency, British India (now Tamil Nadu, India) |
| Spouse(s) | Vimala Narasimhan |
| Religion | Hinduism |
Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan (born 1945) is a former bureaucrat who has been the Governor of Andhra Pradesh since December 2009. He assumed office as the Governor of Telangana on 2 June 2014. Previously he was Director of the Intelligence Bureau until 2006 and then Governor of Chhattisgarh from 2007 to 2010.
Narasimhan was born in Tamil Nadu in 1945. After an initial two years schooling at Little Flower High School, Hyderabad, he completed his entire education from Chennai. Migrating from Physics to Political science, Shri Narasimhan is a gold medallist from the Madras Presidency College. He is also a graduate in Law from Madras Law College.
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.
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.
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.
With the process for formation of a separate Telangana state entering a crucial phase, Andhra Pradesh Governor E S L Narasimhan held a series of meeting with central leaders in the national capital on 23 October 2013. 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. 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 bifurcation issue.
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