List of governors of Mizoram

Governor of Mizoram
Raj Bhavan, Aizawl
Incumbent V. K. Singh since 16 January 2025
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan, Aizawl
Appointer	President of India
Term length	At the pleasure of the president
Inaugural holder	S.P. Mukherjee
Formation	20 February 1987;38 years ago (1987-02-20)
Website	https://rajbhavan.mizoram.gov.in

The state of Mizoram is in northeastern India.

This is a list of governors of Mizoram, an Indian state part of Northeast India. There are 54 governors with additional charge.

Powers and functions

See also: Powers and functions of the governor

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

Legend

• ^† Died in office
• ^§ Transferred
• ^‡ Resigned/removed

Color key

•    indicates acting/additional charge

Lieutenant Governors of Mizoram (1972–1987)

S.J.Das was the administrator of Mizoram from 21 January 1972 to 23 April 1972. He was followed by these Lieutenant Governors:

#	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office
1	S. P. Mukherjee		24 April 1972	12 June 1974
2	S. K. Chibber		13 June 1974	26 September 1977
3	N. P. Mathur		27 September 1977	15 April 1981
4	S. N. Kohli		16 April 1981	9 August 1983
5	H. S. Dubey		10 August 1983	10 December 1986
6	Hiteswar Saikia		11 December 1986	19 February 1987

Governors of Mizoram (1987–present)

#	Portrait	Name (born –died)	Home state	Tenure in office			Appointer (President)
				From	To	Time in office
1		Hiteswar Saikia (1934–1996)	Assam	20 February 1987	30 April 1989 [‡]	2 years, 69 days	Zail Singh
–		General K. V. Krishna Rao (Retd) PVSM (1923–2016) Governor of Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura (Additional Charge)	Andhra Pradesh	1 May 1989	20 July 1989 [§] [α]	80 days	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
2		Williamson A. Sangma (1919–1990)	Meghalaya	21 July 1989	7 February 1990 [‡]	201 days
3		Swaraj Kaushal (born 1952)	Punjab	8 February 1990	9 February 1993	3 years, 1 day
4		Paty Ripple Kyndiah (1928–2015)	Meghalaya	10 February 1993	13 January 1998 [‡] [β]	4 years, 337 days	K. R. Narayanan
–		Siddheshwar Prasad (1929–2023) Governor of Tripura (Additional Charge)	Bihar	14 January 1998	28 January 1998	14 days
5		Arun Prasad Mukherjee IPS (Retd)	West Bengal	29 January 1998	1 May 1998 [‡]	92 days
6		A. Padmanabhan IAS (Retd) (born 1928)	Tamil Nadu	2 May 1998	30 November 2000 [‡]	2 years, 212 days
–		Ved Marwah IPS (Retd) (1934–2020) Governor of Manipur (Additional Charge)	National Capital Territory of Delhi	1 December 2000	17 May 2001	167 days
7		Amolak Rattan Kohli (born 1942)	Haryana	18 May 2001	24 July 2006	5 years, 67 days
8		Lieutenant General Madan Mohan Lakhera (Retd) PVSM AVSM VSM (born 1937)	Uttarakhand	25 July 2006	1 September 2011	5 years, 38 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
9		Vakkom Purushothaman (1928–2023)	Kerala	2 September 2011	9 July 2014 [‡]	2 years, 310 days	Pratibha Patil
10		Kamla Beniwal (1927–2024)	Rajasthan	9 July 2014	7 August 2014 [‡]	29 days	Pranab Mukherjee
–		Vinod Kumar Duggal IAS (Retd) (born 1944) Governor of Manipur (Additional Charge)	Punjab	8 August 2014	16 September 2014 [‡]	39 days
–		Krishan Kant Paul IPS (Retd) (born 1948) Governor of Meghalaya (Additional Charge)	Chandigarh	16 September 2014	8 January 2015 [§] [γ]	114 days
11		Aziz Qureshi (1941–2024)	Madhya Pradesh	9 January 2015	3 April 2015 [‡]	84 days
–		Keshari Nath Tripathi (1934–2023) Governor of West Bengal (Additional Charge)	Uttar Pradesh	4 April 2015	25 May 2015	51 days
12		Lieutenant General Nirbhay Sharma (Retd) PVSM UYSM AVSM VSM (born 1946)	Uttar Pradesh	26 May 2015	25 May 2018	2 years, 364 days
13		Kummanam Rajasekharan (born 1952)	Kerala	29 May 2018	8 March 2019 [‡] [δ]	283 days	Ram Nath Kovind
–		Jagdish Mukhi (born 1942) Governor of Assam (Additional Charge)	National Capital Territory of Delhi	9 March 2019	4 November 2019	240 days
14		P. S. Sreedharan Pillai (born 1954)	Kerala	5 November 2019	18 July 2021 [§] [ε]	1 year, 255 days
15		Kambhampati Hari Babu (born 1953)	Andhra Pradesh	19 July 2021	10 August 2021	22 days
–		Brigadier B. D. Mishra (Retd) (born 1939) Governor of Arunachal Pradesh (Acting)	Uttar Pradesh	11 August 2021	6 November 2021	87 days
(15)		Kambhampati Hari Babu (born 1953)	Andhra Pradesh	7 November 2021	15 January 2025 [§] [ζ]	3 years, 69 days
16		General Vijay Kumar Singh (Retd) PVSM AVSM YSM ADC (born 1951)	Uttar Pradesh	16 January 2025	Incumbent	278 days	Droupadi Murmu

1. Transferred as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
2. Resigned to contest in the 1998 general election
3. Transferred as the Governor of Uttarakhand
4. Resigned to contest in the 2019 general election
5. Transferred as the Governor of Goa
6. Transferred as the Governor of Odisha

External links

• https://rajbhavan.mizoram.gov.in/
• https://rajbhavan.mizoram.gov.in/previous-governors/

See also

• Governors of India
• Chief Minister of Mizoram