 On 22 January 2010, he was sworn in as the Governor of Maharashtra.On 27 August 2011 he was given additional charge of Goa till the Indian government appointed B V Wanchoo to the post on 4 May 2012.K Sankaranarayanan, veteran Congress leader, was born on 15 October 1932 in the city of Palakkad in the state of Kerala as the son of A Sankaran Nair and Smt K Lekshmi Amma.