
`Orissa is not new for me. I have been coming here since the past 45 years.
Orissa is a culturally rich state and I am proud of it,` M.C.Bhandare told reporters after becoming the governor of the state. Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare is the present Governor of the state of Orissa.
He has been the senior Congress leader and also served as the member of
Rajya Sabha. He has been sworn-in as the 43rd Governor of Orissa.
Rameshwar Thakur was replaced by him. The Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court, Ashok Kumar Ganguly administered the oath on 19th August 2007.
Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare is a lawyer by profession. In the year 1980, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha for the first time. Most of his political career, he spends in Maharashtra.