List of governors of Tripura

Governor of Tripura
Raj BhavanAgartala
Incumbent Nallu Indrasena Reddy 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.

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]

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.

Governors of Tripura

No	Name	Image	Took office	Left office	Duration	Home State	Appointed by
1.	B. K. Nehru		21 January 1972	22 September 1973	1 year, 244 days	Uttar Pradesh	V. V. Giri
2.	L. P. Singh		23 September 1973	13 August 1981	7 years, 324 days	Bihar
3.	S. M. H. Burney		14 August 1981	13 June 1984	2 years, 304 days	Uttar Pradesh	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
4.	K. V. Krishna Rao		14 June 1984	11 July 1989	5 years, 27 days	Andhra Pradesh	Zail Singh
5.	Sultan Singh		12 July 1989	11 February 1990	337 days	Punjab	R. Venkataraman
6.	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy		12 February 1990	14 August 1993	3 years, 183 days	Andhra Pradesh
7.	Romesh Bhandari		15 August 1993	15 June 1995	1 year, 304 days	Delhi	Shankar Dayal Sharma
8.	Siddheshwar Prasad		16 June 1995	22 June 2000	5 years, 6 days	Bihar
9.	Krishna Mohan Seth		23 June 2000	31 May 2003	2 years, 342 days	Uttar Pradesh	K. R. Narayan
10.	Dinesh Nandan Sahay		2 June 2003	14 October 2009	6 years, 134 days	Bihar	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
11.	Kamla Beniwal		15 October 2009	26 November 2009	42 days	Rajasthan	Pratibha Patil
12.	Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil		27 November 2009	21 March 2013	3 years, 114 days	Maharashtra
13.	Devanand Konwar		25 March 2013	29 June 2014	1 year, 96 days	Assam	Pranab Mukherjee
14.	Vakkom Purushothaman		30 June 2014	14 July 2014	14 days	Kerala
15.	Padmanabha Acharya		21 July 2014	19 May 2015	302 days	Karnataka
16.	Tathagata Roy		20 May 2015 [2]	25 August 2018	3 years, 97 days	West Bengal
17.	Kaptan Singh Solanki		25 August 2018 [3]	28 July 2019	337 days	Madhya Pradesh	Ramnath Kovind
18.	Ramesh Bais		29 July 2019	13 July 2021	1 year, 349 days	Chhattisgarh
19.	Satyadev Narayan Arya		14 July 2021	25 October 2023	2 years, 103 days	Bihar
20.	Nallu Indrasena Reddy		26 October 2023 [4]	Incumbent	1 year, 155 days	Telangana	Draupadi Murmu

See also

• Tripura
• Governors of India

References

1. "Tripura - Governors". tripura.nic.in. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
2. Ali, Syed Sajjad (20 May 2015). "Tathagata Roy to take charge as Tripura Governor". The Hindu. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
3. "Solanki becomes new Tripura Guv". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 25 August 2018.
4. "Indra Sena Reddy Nallu takes oath as Tripura Governor". The Hindu. 26 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.