List of governors of Bihar

right|180px|thumb|Location of [[Bihar in India.]]

The Governor of Bihar is the nominal head of the Indian state of Bihar. The governor is appointed by the President of India. Syed Ata Hasnain is the current governor of Bihar. Former President Zakir Husain and Ram Nath Kovind were two such governors of Bihar who succeeded on to become the President of India. Zakir Hussain was earlier succeeded to become the Vice President of India.

Powers and functions

The governor has:

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.

In his ex-officio capacity, the governor of Bihar is chancellor of the universities of Bihar (at present 12) as per the Acts of the Universities.

thumb|President [[Pranab Mukherjee received by Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind & Chief minister Nitish Kumar.]]

List

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Died in office
Transferred
Resigned/removed

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indicates acting/additional charge

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! 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

| Jairamdas Daulatram

| Maharashtra

| 1947

| 1948

| rowspan="2"| Lord Mountbatten

! 2

| 70px

| Madhav Shrihari Aney

| Maharashtra

| 1948

| 1952

! 3

| 70px

| R. R. Diwakar

| Karnataka

| 1952

| 1957

| rowspan="3"| Rajendra Prasad

! 4

| 70px

| Zakir Husain

| Andhra Pradesh

| 1957

| 1962

! 5

| 70px

| M. A. Ayyangar

| Andhra Pradesh

| 1962

| 1967

! 6

| 70px

| Nityanand Kanungo

| Orissa

| 1967

| 1971

| Zakir Husain

! 7

| bgcolor="wheat"| 70px

| bgcolor="wheat"| Ujjal Narayan Sinha

| bgcolor="wheat"| Bihar

| bgcolor="wheat"| 1971

| bgcolor="wheat"|

| rowspan="3"| V. V. Giri

! 8

| 70px

| Dev Kant Barooah

| Assam

| 1971

| 1973

! 9

| 70px

| Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare

| Maharashtra

| 1973

| 1976

! 10

| 70px

| Jagannath Kaushal

| Chandigarh

| 1976

| 1979

| Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

! 11

| bgcolor="wheat"| 70px

| bgcolor="wheat"| Krishna Ballabh Narayan Singh (Acting)

| bgcolor="wheat"| Bihar

| bgcolor="wheat"| 1979

| bgcolor="wheat"|

| rowspan="2"| Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

! 12

| 70px

| Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai

| National Capital Territory of Delhi

| 1979

| 1985

! 13

| 70px

| Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah

| Andhra Pradesh

| 1985

| 1988

| Zail Singh

! 14

| 70px

| Govind Narayan Singh

| Madhya Pradesh

| 1988

| 1989

| rowspan="8" | Ramaswamy Venkataraman

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 15

| 70px

| Dipak Kumar Sen

| West Bengal

| 1989

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 16

| 70px

| R. D. Pradhan (Additional Charge)

| Maharashtra

| 1989

! 17

| 70px

| Jagannath Pahadia

| Rajasthan

| 1989

| 1990

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 18

| 70px

| Gangadhar Ganesh Sohani

| Madhya Pradesh

| 1990

! 19

| 70px

| Mohammad Yunus Saleem

| Uttar Pradesh

| 1990

| 1991

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 20

| 70px

| B. Satya Narayan Reddy (Additional Charge)

| Andhra Pradesh

| 1991

! 21

| 70px

| Mohammad Shafi Qureshi

| Jammu and Kashmir

| 1991

| 1993

! 22

| 70px

| Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai

| National Capital Territory of Delhi

| 1993

| 1998

| Shankar Dayal Sharma

! 23

| 70px

| Sunder Singh Bhandari

| Rajasthan

| 1998

| 1999

| rowspan="4"| K. R. Narayanan

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 24

| 70px

| Brij Mohan Lal

| National Capital Territory of Delhi

| 1999

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 25

| 70px

| Suraj Bhan (Additional Charge)

| Haryana

| 1999

! 26

| 70px

| Vinod Chandra Pande

| Uttar Pradesh

| 1999

| 2003

! 27

| 70px

| Mandagadde Rama Jois

| Karnataka

| 2003

| 2004

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

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 28

| 70px

| Ved Marwah (Additional Charge)

| National Capital Territory of Delhi

| 2004

! 29

| 70px

| Buta Singh

| Punjab

| 2004

| 2006

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 30

| 70px

| Gopalkrishna Gandhi (Additional Charge)

| National Capital Territory of Delhi

| 2006

! 31

| 70px

| R. S. Gavai

| Maharashtra

| 2006

| 2008

! 32

| 70px

| R. L. Bhatia

| Punjab

| 2008

| 2009

| rowspan="2"| Pratibha Patil

! 33

| 70px

| Devanand Konwar

| Assam

| 2009

| 2013

! 34

| 70px

| D. Y. Patil

| Maharashtra

| 2013

| 2014

| rowspan="4"| Pranab Mukherjee

! 35

| 105x105px

| Keshari Nath Tripathi

| Uttar Pradesh

| 2014

| 2015

! 36

| 87x87px

| Ram Nath Kovind

| Uttar Pradesh

| 2015

| 2017

|- bgcolor="wheat"

! 37

| 105x105px

| Keshari Nath Tripathi (Additional Charge)

| Uttar Pradesh

| 2017

! 38

| 70px

| Satya Pal Malik

| Uttar Pradesh

| 2017

| 2018

| rowspan="3"| Ram Nath Kovind

! 39

| 70px

| Lalji Tandon

| Uttar Pradesh

| 2018

| 2019

! 40

| 93x93px

| Phagu Chauhan

| Uttar Pradesh

| 2019

| 2023

! 41

| 86x86px

| Rajendra Arlekar

| Goa

| 2023

| 2025

| rowspan="3" | Droupadi Murmu

! 42

| 101x101px

| Arif Mohammad Khan

| Uttar Pradesh

| 2025

| 2026

! 43

| 90x90px

| Syed Ata Hasnain

| Uttarakhand

| 2026

| Incumbent

Timeline

{| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"

| Timeline of Bihar governors

Oath

Main, [Name], Ishwar ki shapath leta hoon (ya nishtha se pratigya karta hoon) ki main sachhe mann se Governor (Rajyapal) ke roop mein [State Name] ke pad ka karyabhar sambhalunga (ya zimmedari uthaunga).

Main apni poori kabiliyat se Samvidhan (Constitution) aur kanoon (Law) ki raksha, suraksha aur bachaav karunga, aur main apne aap ko [State Name] ki janta ki seva aur kalyan (well-being) mein samarpit karunga."

List of governors of Bihar

Powers and functions

List

Timeline

Oath

See also

Reference

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