List of governors of Tripura

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Governor of Tripura
Tripura Emblem.png
Raj BhavanAgartala
Indrasena Reddy.jpg
since 26 October 2023
Style His Excellency
Residence Raj Bhavan; Agartala
Appointer President of India
Term length At the pleasure of the president
Formation rajbhavan.tripura.gov.in
The state of Tripura is surrounded by eastern Bangladesh. IN-TR.svg
The state of Tripura is surrounded by eastern Bangladesh.

This is a list of the governors of Tripura, a state in northeast India, since its inception as a state on 21 January 1972. [1]

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Powers and functions

The governor enjoys many different types of powers:

List

Legend
Color key
#PortraitName
(born died)
Home stateTenure in officeAppointer
(President)
FromToTime in office
1 Braj Kumar Nehru with Kennedy (cropped).jpg Braj Kumar Nehru
ICS (Retd)
(1909–2001)
Governor of Assam
Uttar Pradesh 21 January
1972 [α]
22 September
1973
1 year, 244 days V. V. Giri
2 No image (male).svg Lallan Prasad Singh
ICS (Retd)
(1912–1998)
Governor of Assam
Bihar 23 September
1973 [β]
13 August
1981
7 years, 324 days
3 No image (male).svg S. M. H. Burney
IAS (Retd)
(1924–2014)
Governor of Manipur and Nagaland
Uttar Pradesh 14 August
1981 [γ]
13 June
1984 [§] [δ]
2 years, 304 days Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
4 General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao.jpg General
K. V. Krishna Rao (Retd)
PVSM
(1923–2016)
Governor of Manipur and Nagaland
Andhra Pradesh 14 June
1984 [γ]
11 July
1989 [§] [ε]
5 years, 27 days Zail Singh
5 Sultan Singh Rajya Sabha portrait.jpg Sultan Singh
(1923–2014)
Haryana 12 July
1989
11 February
1990 [‡]
214 days Ramaswamy Venkataraman
6 K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (cropped).jpg K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
(1924–2002)
Andhra Pradesh 12 February
1990
14 August
1993 [§] [ζ]
3 years, 183 days
7 Romesh Bhandari.jpg Romesh Bhandari
IFS (Retd)
(1928–2013)
Punjab 15 August
1993
15 June
1995 [§] [η]
1 year, 304 days Shankar Dayal Sharma
8 Siddheshwar Prasad Lok Sabha photo.jpg Siddheshwar Prasad
(1929–2023)
Bihar 16 June
1995
22 June
2000
5 years, 6 days
9 The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with the Governor of Chhattisgarh, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) K. M. Seth at Raj Bhawan in Raipur, during his one day visit to the State on April 30, 2005 (cropped).jpg Lieutenant General
Krishna Mohan Seth (Retd)
PVSM AVSM
(born 1939)
Uttar Pradesh 23 June
2000
31 May
2003 [§] [θ]
2 years, 342 days K. R. Narayanan
10 Dinesh Nandan Sahay, Governor of Tripura.jpg Dinesh Nandan Sahay
IPS (Retd)
(1936–2018)
Bihar 2 June
2003
14 October
2009
6 years, 134 days A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
11 Kamla Beniwal, Governor of Gujarat (cropped).jpg Kamla Beniwal
(1927–2024)
Rajasthan 15 October
2009
26 November
2009 [§] [ι]
42 days Pratibha Patil
12 Shri D.Y. Patil (cropped, 3x4).jpg D. Y. Patil
(born 1935)
Maharashtra 27 November
2009
24 March
2013 [§] [κ]
3 years, 117 days
13 Pranab Mukherjee attending the Launching Ceremony of Agriculture Road Map of Bihar (2012-2017), at Patna, in Bihar. The Governor of Bihar, Shri Devanand Konwar and the Chief Minister of Bihar, Shri Nitish Kumar are also seen (cropped).jpg Devanand Konwar
(1934–2020)
Assam 25 March
2013
29 June
2014
1 year, 96 days Pranab Mukherjee
Vakkom Purushothaman (cropped).jpg Vakkom Purushothaman
(1928–2023)
Governor of Mizoram

(Additional Charge)
Kerala 30 June
2014
20 July
2014 [‡]
20 days
Smriti Irani meeting the Governor of Tripura Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya (cropped).jpg Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya
(1931–2023)
Governor of Nagaland

(Additional Charge)
Karnataka 21 July
2014
19 May
2015
302 days
14 Tathagata Roy with Rajnath Singh in May 2015 (cropped).jpg Tathagata Roy
(born 1945)
West Bengal 20 May
2015
25 August
2018 [§] [λ]
3 years, 97 days
15 Kaptan Singh Solanki (cropped).jpg Kaptan Singh Solanki
(born 1939)
Madhya Pradesh 25 August
2018
28 July
2019
337 days Ram Nath Kovind
16 Ramesh Bais in 2023 (cropped).jpg Ramesh Bais
(born 1947)
Chhattisgarh 29 July
2019
13 July
2021 [§] [μ]
1 year, 349 days
17 Governor of Haryana Satyadev Narayan Arya in August 2018.JPG Satyadev Narayan Arya
(born 1939)
Bihar 14 July
2021
25 October
2023
2 years, 103 days
18 Indrasena Reddy.jpg N. Indrasena Reddy
(born 1976)
Telangana 25 October
2023
Incumbent1 year, 275 days Droupadi Murmu
  1. Concurrently also served as the Governor of Assam and Nagaland (1968–1973); and as the Governor of Meghalaya and Manipur (1972–1973)
  2. Concurrently also served as the Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, and Nagaland
  3. 1 2 Concurrently also served as the Governor of Manipur and Nagaland
  4. Transferred as the Governor of Haryana
  5. Transferred as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
  6. Transferred as the Governor of West Bengal
  7. Transferred as the Governor of Goa
  8. Transferred as the Governor of Chhattisgarh
  9. Transferred as the Governor of Gujarat
  10. Transferred as the Governor of Bihar
  11. Transferred as the Governor of Meghalaya
  12. Transferred as the Governor of Jharkhand

See also

References

  1. "Tripura - Governors". tripura.nic.in. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011.