List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh

upright|thumb|Arunachal Pradesh is in eastern India.

The Governor of Arunachal Pradesh is the nominal head of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The governor is appointed by the president of India. The current governor is Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik. A total of 25 governors has served in this state.

Powers and functions

The governor enjoys many different types of powers:

Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals,
Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad, and
Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the Governor.

List

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Died in office
Transferred
Resigned/removed

;Color key

indicates acting/additional charge

Chief Commissioners of Arunachal Pradesh (19721975)

{| class="wikitable sortable"

!Portrait

!Name

!Took office

!Left office

!Duration

! 1

|60x60px

| K. A. A. Raja

| 20 January 1972

| 1973

! 2

|60x60px

| Manohar L. Kampani

| 1974

| 1975

Lieutenant Governors of Arunachal Pradesh (19751987)

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! Image

!Name

!Took office

!Left office

!Duration

! 1

| 60px

| K. A. A. Raja

| 15 August 1975

| 18 January 1979

! 2

| 60px

| R. N. Haldipur

| 18 January 1979

| 23 July 1981

! 3

| 60px

| H. S. Dubey

| 23 July 1981

| 10 August 1983

! 4

| 90px

| Thanjavelu Rajeshwar

| 10 August 1983

| 21 November 1985

! 5

| 60px

| Shiva Swaroop

| 21 November 1985

| 20 February 1987

Governors of Arunachal Pradesh (1987present)

Ref:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; border:1px #aaf solid;"

! rowspan="2"|

! rowspan="2" class="unsortable"| Portrait

! rowspan="2" style="width:14em" | Name (borndied)

! rowspan="2" style="width:7em" | Home state

! colspan="3"| Tenure in office

! rowspan="2" style="width:7em" | Appointer (President)

! style="width:7em"| From

! style="width:7em"| To

! style="width:5em"| Time in office

! 1

| 70px

| Bhishma Narain Singh

| Bihar

| 1987

| rowspan="2"| Zail Singh

! 2

| 70px

| R. D. Pradhan

| Maharashtra

| 1987

| 1990

! 3

| bgcolor="wheat"| 70px

| bgcolor="wheat"| Gopal Singh (Additional Charge)

| bgcolor="wheat"| Punjab

| bgcolor="wheat"| 1990

| bgcolor="wheat"|

| rowspan="4"| Ramaswamy Venkataraman

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 4

| 70px

| Devi Das Thakur (Additional Charge)

| Jammu and Kashmir

| 1990

| 1991

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 5

| 70px

| Lokanath Misra (Additional Charge)

| Orissa

| 1991

! 6

| 70px

| Surendranath Dwivedy

| Orissa

| 1991

| 1993

! 7

| bgcolor="wheat"| 70px

| bgcolor="wheat"| Madhukar Dighe (Additional Charge)

| bgcolor="wheat"| Uttar Pradesh

| bgcolor="wheat"| 1993

| bgcolor="wheat"|

| rowspan="2"| Shankar Dayal Sharma

! 8

| 70px

| Mata Prasad

| Uttar Pradesh

| 1993

| 1999

! 9

| bgcolor="wheat"| 70px

| bgcolor="wheat"| Srinivas Kumar Sinha (1928- 2016)(Additional Charge)

| bgcolor="wheat"| Bihar

| bgcolor="wheat"| 1999

| bgcolor="wheat"|

| rowspan="2"| K. R. Narayanan

! 10

| 70px

| Arvind Dave

| Uttar Pradesh

| 1999

| 2003

! 11

| 70px

| Vinod Chandra Pande

| Uttar Pradesh

| 2003

| 2004

| rowspan="5"| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

! 12

| 70px

| Shilendra Kumar Singh

| Delhi

| 2004

| 2007

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 13

| 70px

| M. M. Jacob (1926- 2018) (Acting)

| Kerala

| 2007

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 14

| 70px

| Kateekal Sankaranarayanan(1932- 2022) (Acting)

| Kerala

| 2007

! (12)

| 70px

| Shilendra Kumar Singh

| Delhi

| 2007

! (14)

| bgcolor="wheat"| 70px

| bgcolor="wheat"| Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (1932- 2022) (Acting)

| bgcolor="wheat"| Kerala

| bgcolor="wheat"| 2007

| bgcolor="wheat"| 2008

| bgcolor="wheat"|

| rowspan="2"| Pratibha Patil

! 15

| 87x87px

| Joginder Jaswant Singh

| Punjab

| 2008

| 2013

! 16

| 70px

| Nirbhay Sharma

| Uttar Pradesh

| 2013

| 2015

| rowspan="6"| Pranab Mukherjee

! 17

| 70px

| Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa

| Assam

| 2015

| 2016

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 18

| 88x88px

| Tathagata Roy (born 1945) (Acting)

| West Bengal

| 2016

! (17)

| 70px

| Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa

| Assam

| 2016

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 19

| 70px

| V. Shanmuganathan (born 1949) (Additional Charge)

| Tamil Nadu

| 2016

| 2017

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 20

| 70px

| Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya (1931- 2023) (Additional charge)

| Karnataka

| 2017

! 21

| 70px

| B. D. Mishra

| Uttar Pradesh

| 2017

| 2023

| Ram Nath Kovind

! 22

| 70px

| Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik

| Maharashtra

| 2023

| Incumbent

| Droupadi Murmu

Oath

“I, A. B., do swear in the name of God/solemly affirm that I will faithfully

execute the office of Governor (or discharge the functions

of the Governor) of .............(name of the State) and will to

the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the

Constitution and the law and that I will devote myself to

the service and well-being of the people of ..………(name

of the State).”

References

External links

Home : Official website of the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, India