Having learnt that new governing ones were to be appointed, a politico, a former purohita had called on a bigwig at the country’s main office and had told him that if he were appointed as the governing one of the Eastern province from where he hailed, he would be in a position to garner several lakhs of votes for his boss at the forthcoming big poll.
Then the bigwig had pointed out to him that it was not advisable to appoint him to that province as most political authorities there were opposed to him. 
Then, the ambitious politico had mentioned another province as an alternative and the bigwig had then told him that the governing one already there could not be moved out as he was very popular there. 
Later he had grudgingly consented to be the governing one of yet another province, they say.