S.C. Jamir

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Sanayangba Chubatoshi Jamir (born October 17, 1931) is an Indian politician, governor of Goa and former long-time chief minister of Nagaland. He is the current governor of the Indian state of Goa since July 2004. He is from Nagaland and served as chief minister of Nagaland four times (1980, 1982-1986, 1989-90 and 1993-2003). For his first two terms he was a member of the Progressive United Democratic Front, but by 1989 he had switched to the Indian National Congress. In February 2005, his action of sacking the Manohar Parrikar government was the subject of national controversy which was referred to the President of India, Abdul Kalam.