List of governors of Punjab, India

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Governor of Punjab
Seal of Punjab.svg
Flag of India.svg
Gulab Chand Ji.jpg
since 31 July 2024
Style His Excellency
Residence Raj Bhavan, Chandigarh
Term length Five years;
no restriction on renewal
Precursor Governor of East Punjab
Inaugural holder Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi
Formation15 August 1947;77 years ago (1947-08-15)
Website Punjabrajbhavan

This is a list of the governors of Punjab state in India since its partition on 15 August 1947. Since 1985, the governor of Punjab has acted as the administrator of Chandigarh as well.

Contents

Governors of Punjab

S. NoNamePortraitTenure [1] Nominated by
(President)
Governor of East Punjab (1947–1950)
1 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi C. M. Trivedi Official portrait 1947.jpg 15 August 194726 January 19502 years, 164 days L. Mountbatten (GGI)
Governor of Punjab (1950–Present)
1 Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi C. M. Trivedi Official portrait 1947.jpg 26 January 195011 March 19533 years, 44 days Rajendra Prasad
2 Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh.png 11 March 195315 September 19585 years, 188 days
3 Narahar Vishnu Gadgil Narahar Vishnu Gadgil Official portrait 1958.jpg 15 September 19581 October 19624 years, 16 days
4 Pattom A. Thanu Pillai Pattom A. Thanu Pillai.jpg 1 October 19624 May 19641 year, 216 days S. Radhakrishnan
5 Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim No image available.svg 4 May 19641 September 19651 year, 120 days
6 Ujjal Singh No image available.svg 1 September 196526 June 1966298 days
7 Dharma Vira Dharma Vir, ICS.jpg 27 June 19661 June 1967340 days
- Mehar Singh No image available.svg 1 June 196716 October 1967137 days Zakir Husain
8 Dadappa Chintappa Pavate 16 October 196721 May 19735 years, 217 days
9 Mahendra Mohan Choudhry No image available.svg 21 May 19731 September 19774 years, 103 days V. V. Giri
- Ranjit Singh Narula No image available.svg 1 September 197724 September 197723 days Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
10 Jaisukh Lal Hathi Jaisukh lal Hathi.png 24 September 197726 August 19813 years, 336 days
11 Aminuddin Ahmad Khan No image available.svg 26 August 198121 April 1982238 days
12 Marri Chenna Reddy DrMChannaReddy (cropped).jpg 21 April 19827 February 1983292 days
- Surjit Singh Sandhawalia No image available.svg 7 February 198321 February 198314 days Zail Singh
13 Anant Prasad Sharma Anant Sharma Lok Sabha photo.jpg 21 February 198310 October 1983231 days
14 Bhairab Dutt Pande No image available.svg 10 October 19833 July 1984267 days
15 Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala No image available.svg 3 July 198414 March 1985254 days
16 Arjun Singh
The Union Minister for Human Resource Development Shri Arjun Singh addressing a Press Conference in New Delhi on August 7, 2004.jpg
14 March 198514 November 1985245 days
- Hokishe Sema No image available.svg 14 November 198526 November 198512 days
17 Shankar Dayal Sharma Shankar Dayal Sharma.jpg 26 November 19852 April 1986127 days
18 Siddhartha Shankar Ray SiddharthaShankarRay.png 2 April 19868 December 19893 years, 250 days
19 Nirmal Kumar Mukherjee No image available.svg 8 December 198914 June 1990188 days R. Venkataraman
20 Virendra Verma No image available.svg 14 June 199018 December 1990187 days
21 Om Prakash Malhotra Om-prakash-Mhalotra.jpg 18 December 19907 August 1991232 days
22 Surendra Nath No image available.svg 7 August 19919 July 19942 years, 336 days
- Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar No image available.svg 10 July 199418 September 199470 days Shankar Dayal Sharma
23 Bakshi Krishan Nath Chhibber No image available.svg 18 September 199427 November 19995 years, 70 days
24 Jack Farj Rafael Jacob JFR Jacob.jpg 27 November 19998 May 20033 years, 162 days K. R. Narayanan
25 Om Prakash Verma No image available.svg 8 May 20033 November 20041 year, 179 days A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai A. R. Kidwai in 2009 (cropped).jpg 3 November 200416 November 200413 days
26 Sunith Francis Rodrigues General Sunith Francis Rodrigues.jpg 16 November 200422 January 20105 years, 67 days
27 Shivraj Vishwanath Patil Shivraj Patil.jpg 22 January 201022 January 20155 years, 0 days Pratibha Patil
- Kaptan Singh Solanki Kaptan Singh Solanki.png 22 January 201522 August 20161 year, 213 days Pranab Mukherjee
28 Vijayendra Pal Singh Badnore V P Singh Badnore.JPG 22 August 201630 August 20215 years, 8 days
- Banwarilal Purohit Banwarilal Purohit.jpg 31 August 202111 September 202111 days Ram Nath Kovind
29 Banwarilal Purohit 11 September 202130 July 20242 years, 323 days
30 Gulab Chand Kataria Gulab Chand Kataria (cropped).jpg 31 July 2024Incumbent33 days Droupadi Murmu

Rajpramukh of PEPSU (1948–1956)

Source: [2]

Rajpramukh
(Governor)
PortraitTenure [3] Uparajpramukh
(Lieutenant Governor)
PortraitAppointed by
Yadavindra Singh Yadvinder Singh Mahendra Bahadur (1971).jpg 15 July 19481 November 19568 years, 109 days Jagatjit Singh Maharaja de kapurthala jagatjit singh.jpg C. Rajagopalachari

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References

  1. Former Governors of Punjab
  2. "Indian states since 1947". Worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  3. PEPSU