La. Ganesan is an Indian activist, former BJP politician, and a former Rajya Sabha member. He is the 17th governor of Manipur, and on 18 July 2022, he was given the additional charge of the Governor of West Bengal.In an interview, La. Ganesan said that he could not pursue higher studies because of the sudden death of his father following which he began working as a Revenue Settlement Inspector (RSI) in the state Revenue Department after completing his schooling.After working in the Revenue Department for nine years, La. Ganesan resigned from his post and joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Tamil Nadu as a pracharak.Working with the RSS was not new to La. Ganesan as his family had been propagating Sangh’s ideologies for a long time.La. Ganesan was forced into hiding for a year in 1975 after his name was listed on the Tamil Nadu police’s wanted list for leading several underground movements against the declaration of emergency by the Indira Gandhi-led Indian government.In 1978, La. Ganesan was made the Sangh’s district-in-charge in Tamil Nadu. In the following year, he was promoted to zonal-in-charge of the RSS.In 1981, La. Ganesan, with the RSS, protested against the forceful conversion of more than a thousand Dalit Hindus to Islam at Meenakshipuram. In an interview, he claimed that his protest was aimed at protecting the interests of the Hindus. [7]Rajbhavan.nic.in.In March 1982, La. Ganesan worked as a mediator to peacefully resolve the issues that led to the Mandaikkadu communal riots. His efforts were appreciated by many national-level politicians.In 1991, La. Ganesan joined the BJP when he was serving the RSS as a Joint State Organizer (JSO).In the same year, as a member of the BJP, La. Ganesan was given the responsibility to strengthen the reach of the party in Tamil Nadu.