Governor of Odisha | |
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Style | His Excellency |
Residence | Raj Bhavan, Odisha, Bhubaneswar |
Appointer | President of India |
Term length | Five Years |
Inaugural holder | Kailash Nath Katju |
Formation | 15 August 1947 |
Website | rajbhavanodisha.gov.in |
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The governor of Odisha is the head of state and representative of the president of India in the Indian state of Odisha. The governors have similar powers and functions at the state level as those of the president of India at central level. They exist in the state appointed by the president of India for a term of five years and they are not local to the state that they are appointed to govern. The factors based on which the president evaluates the candidates is not mentioned in the constitution. The governor acts as the nominal head whereas the real power lies with the chief minister of the state and their council of ministers whereas they act as the nominal head. The current incumbent is Raghubar Das since 19 October 2023.
No. | Portrait | Name (Born – Dead) | Took office | Left office | Term in office | Home state | Appointed by |
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British India (Before 1947) | |||||||
1. | Sir John Austen Hubback (1878–1968) | 1 April 1936 | 11 August 1938 | 2 years, 132 days | United Kingdom | Freeman Thomas | |
- | George Townsend Boag (1884–1969)(acting) | 11 August 1938 | 7 December 1938 | 118 days | Victor Hope | ||
(1). | Sir John Austen Hubback (1878–1968) | 8 December 1938 | 31 March 1941 | 2 years, 113 days (Total 4 years, 245 days) | |||
2. | Sir Hawthorne Lewis (1888–1970) | 1 April 1941 | 31 March 1946 | 4 years, 364 days | |||
3. | ![]() | Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (1893–1980) | 1 April 1946 | 14 August 1947 | 1 year, 135 days | Gujarat | Archibald Wavell |
Independent India (After 1947) | |||||||
1. | ![]() | Kailash Nath Katju (1887–1968) | 15 August 1947 | 20 June 1948 | 310 days | Madhya Pradesh | Louis Mountbatten |
2. | ![]() | Asaf Ali (1888–1953) | 21 June 1948 | 5 May 1951 | 2 years, 318 days | Uttar Pradesh | C. Rajagopalachari |
- | V. P. Menon (1893–1965)(acting) | 6 May 1951 | 17 July 1951 | 72 days | Kerala | Rajendra Prasad | |
(2). | ![]() | Asaf Ali (1888–1953) | 18 July 1951 | 6 June 1952 | 324 days (Total 3 years, 277 days) | Uttar Pradesh | |
3. | Fazal Ali (1886–1959) | 7 June 1952 | 9 February 1954 | 1 year, 247 days | Bihar | ||
4. | ![]() | P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja (1898–1957) | 10 February 1954 | 11 September 1956 | 2 years, 214 days | Tamil Nadu | |
5. | Bhim Sen Sachar | 12 September 1956 | 31 July 1957 | 322 days | Punjab | ||
6. | Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar | 31 July 1957 | 15 September 1962 | 5 years, 46 days | Maharashtra | ||
7. | Ajudhia Nath Khosla | 16 September 1962 | 5 August 1966 | 3 years, 323 days | New Delhi | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | |
- | Khaleel Ahmed (acting) | 5 August 1966 | 11 September 1966 | 37 days | Odisha | ||
(7). | Ajudhia Nath Khosla | 12 September 1966 | 30 January 1968 | 1 year, 140 days (Total 5 years, 98 days) | New Delhi | ||
8. | Shaukatullah Shah Ansari | 31 January 1968 | 20 September 1971 | 3 years, 232 days | Karnataka | Zakir Husain | |
- | Sardar Jogendra Singh (acting) | 20 September 1971 | 30 June 1972 | 284 days | Uttar Pradesh | V. V. Giri | |
- | Gati Krushna Misra (acting) | 1 July 1972 | 8 November 1972 | 130 days | Odisha | ||
9. | Basappa Danappa Jatti | 8 November 1972 | 20 August 1974 | 1 year, 285 days | Karnataka | ||
- | Gati Krushna Misra (acting) | 21 August 1974 | 25 October 1974 | 65 days | Odisha | ||
10. | Akbar Ali Khan | 25 October 1974 | 17 April 1976 | 1 year, 175 days | Andhra Pradesh | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | |
- | Shiva Narayan Shankar (acting) | 17 April 1976 | 7 February 1977 | 296 days | Odisha | ||
11. | Harcharan Singh Brar | 7 February 1977 | 22 September 1977 | 227 days | Punjab | ||
12. | Bhagwat Dayal Sharma | 23 September 1977 | 30 April 1980 | 2 years, 220 days | Haryana | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | |
13. | Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha | 30 April 1980 | 30 September 1980 | 153 days | Karnataka | ||
- | S. K. Ray (acting) | 1 October 1980 | 3 November 1980 | 33 days | Odisha | ||
(13). | Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha | 4 November 1980 | 24 June 1982 | 1 year, 232 days | Karnataka | ||
- | Ranganath Misra (acting) | 25 June 1982 | 31 August 1982 | 67 days | Odisha | ||
(13). | Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha | 1 September 1982 | 17 August 1983 | 350 days (Total 3 years, 5 days) | Karnataka | Giani Zail Singh | |
14. | Bishambhar Nath Pande | 17 August 1983 | 20 November 1988 | 5 years, 95 days | Uttar Pradesh | ||
15. | Saiyid Nurul Hasan | 20 November 1988 | 6 February 1990 | 4 years, 78 days | R. Venkataraman | ||
16. | Yagya Dutt Sharma | 7 February 1990 | 1 February 1993 | 2 years, 360 days | Punjab | ||
(15). | Saiyid Nurul Hasan | 1 February 1993 | 31 May 1993 | 119 days (Total 4 years, 197 days) | Uttar Pradesh | Shankar Dayal Sharma | |
17. | B. Satya Narayan Reddy | 1 June 1993 | 17 June 1995 | 2 years, 16 days | Andhra Pradesh | ||
18. | Gopala Ramanujam (1915–2001) | 18 June 1995 | 30 January 1997 | 1 year, 226 days | Tamil Nadu | ||
19. | ![]() | K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (1924–2002) | 31 January 1997 | 12 February 1997 | 12 days | Andhra Pradesh | |
(18). | Gopala Ramanujam (1915–2001) | 13 February 1997 | 13 December 1997 | 303 days (Total 2 years, 164 days) | Tamil Nadu | ||
(19). | ![]() | K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (1924–2002) | 13 December 1997 | 27 April 1998 | 135 days (Total 147 days) | Andhra Pradesh | K. R. Narayanan |
20. | ![]() | C. Rangarajan (Born 1932) | 27 April 1998 | 14 November 1999 | 1 year, 201 days | Tamil Nadu | |
21. | ![]() | M. M. Rajendran (1935–2023) | 15 November 1999 | 17 November 2004 | 5 years, 2 days | ||
22. | ![]() | Rameshwar Thakur (1925–2015) | 18 November 2004 | 21 August 2007 | 2 years, 276 days | Bihar | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
23. | ![]() | Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare (1928--2024) | 21 August 2007 | 9 March 2013 | 5 years, 200 days | Maharashtra | Pratibha Patil |
24. | ![]() | S.C. Jamir (Born 1931) | 21 March 2013 | 20 March 2018 | 4 years, 364 days | Nagaland | Pranab Mukherjee |
- | ![]() | Satya Pal Malik (Born 1946)(additional charge) | 21 March 2018 | 28 May 2018 | 68 days | Uttar Pradesh | Ramnath Kovind |
25. | ![]() | Prof. Ganeshi Lal (Born 1941) | 29 May 2018 | 30 October 2023 | 5 years, 154 days | Haryana | |
26. | ![]() | Raghubar Das (Born 1955) | 31 October 2023 | Incumbent | 287 days | Jharkhand | Droupadi Murmu |
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