List of governors of Himachal Pradesh explained

The Governor of Himachal Pradesh (ISO: Himachal Pradēśa kē Rājyapāla) is the constitutional head and representative of the President of India in the state of Himachal Pradesh. Sh. Shiv Pratap Shukla is the 22nd governor (31st if governors with additional charge also counted) of Himachal Pradesh since February 2023.

Out of the regular 21 governors (except the present one) of the state only three have been able to complete their full terms: S. Chakravarti (1971–77), Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje (2003–08) and Urmila Singh (2010–15).

Lieutenant governors of Himachal Pradesh

	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Duration
1	Maj. Gen. K. S. Himmatsinhji (retd.)		1 March 1952	31 December 1954
2	Rai Bajrang Bahadur Singh		1 January 1955	13 August 1963
3	Sh. Bhagawan Sahay		14 August 1963	25 February 1966
4	Sh. V. Viswanathan, ICS (retd.)		26 February 1966	6 May 1967
5	Sh. Om Parkash		7 May 1967	15 May 1967
6	Lt. Gen. K. Bhadur Singh (retd.)		16 May 1967	24 January 1971

Governors of Himachal Pradesh

Key

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indicates that this was an additional charge

	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Duration	Home State	Appointed by
1.	S. Chakravarti		25 January 1971	16 February 1977		Not Known	V. V. Giri
2.	Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan		17 February 1977	25 August 1981		Haryana	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
3.	A. K. Banerjee		26 August 1981	15 April 1983		Not Known	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
4.	Hokishe Sema		16 April 1983	7 March 1986		Nagaland	Zail Singh
–	bgcolor=wheat			8 March 1986	16 April 1986			Gujarat
5.	R. K. S. Ghandhi		17 April 1986	15 February 1990		Madhya Pradesh
–	bgcolor=wheat			2 December 1987	10 January 1988		Uttar Pradesh	R. Venkataraman
–	bgcolor=wheat			20 December 1989	12 January 1990		Not Known
6.	B. Rachaiah		16 February 1990	19 December 1990		Karnataka
7.	Virendra Verma		20 December 1990	29 January 1993		Uttar Pradesh
–	bgcolor=wheat			30 January 1993	10 December 1993		Not Known	Shankar Dayal Sharma
8.	Bali Ram Bhagat		11 February 1993	29 June 1993		Bihar
9.	Gulsher Ahmad		30 June 1993	26 November 1993		Madhya Pradesh
–	bgcolor=wheat			27 November 1993	9 July 1994		Not Known
–	bgcolor=wheat			10 July 1994	30 July 1994		Tamil Nadu
10.	Sudhakarrao Naik		30 July 1994	18 September 1995		Maharashtra
–	bgcolor=wheat			18 September 1995	17 November 1995		Uttar Pradesh
11.	Sheila Kaul		17 November 1995	23 April 1996
–	bgcolor=wheat			23 April 1996	25 July 1997
12.	V. S. Ramadevi		26 July 1997	1 December 1999		Tamil Nadu	K. R. Narayan
13.	Vishnu Kant Shastri		2 December 1999	23 November 2000		West Bengal
14.	Suraj Bhan		23 November 2000	7 May 2003		Haryana
15.	Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje		8 May 2003	19 July 2008		Madhya Pradesh	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
16.	Prabha Rau		19 July 2008	24 January 2010		Maharashtra	Pratibha Patil
17.	Urmila Singh		25 January 2010	28 January 2015		Madhya Pradesh
-	bgcolor=wheat			28 January 2015	12 August 2015		Uttar Pradesh	Pranab Mukherjee
18.	Acharya Devvrat		12 August 2015	21 July 2019		Haryana
19.	Kalraj Mishra		22 July 2019	10 September 2019		Uttar Pradesh	Ramnath Kovind
20.	Bandaru Dattatreya		11 September 2019	13 July 2021		Telangana
21.	Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar		13 July 2021	13 February 2023		Goa
22.	Shiv Pratap Shukla		13 February 2023	Incumbent		Uttar Pradesh	Draupadi Murmu

See also

• Himachal Pradesh
• Governors of India
• Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
• Government of Himachal Pradesh

External links

• H.P.Vidhan Sabha-Past Governor's