List of governors of Nagaland explained

The governor of Nagaland is the head of state of Nagaland and the representative of the president of India in the state.

Powers and functions

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 Nagaland

Key

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scope=col		scope=col	Name	Portrait	Took office	scope=col	Left office	scope=col	Duration	scope=col	Home State	scope=col	Appointed by
scope=row	1.			1 December 1963	16 April 1968		Uttar Pradesh	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
scope=row	2.			17 April 1968	18 September 1973			Zakir Husain
scope=row	3.			19 September 1973	9 August 1981		Bihar	V. V. Giri
scope=row	4.			10 August 1981	12 June 1984		Uttar Pradesh	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
scope=row	5.			13 June 1984	19 July 1989		Andhra Pradesh	Zail Singh
scope=row	6.			20 July 1989	3 May 1990		Punjab	R. Venkataraman
scope=row	7.			9 May 1990	12 April 1992		Kerala
scope=row	8.			13 April 1992	1 October 1993		Odisha
scope=row	9.			2 October 1993	4 August 1994		Not Known	Shankar Dayal Sharma
scope=row	10.			5 August 1994	11 November 1996		Madhya Pradesh
scope=row	11.			12 November 1996	27 January 2002		Not Known
scope=row	12.			28 January 2002	2 February 2007		West Bengal	K. R. Narayan
scope=row	13.			3 February 2007	28 July 2009		Kerala	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
scope=row	14.			28 July 2009	14 Oct 2009		Not Known	Pratibha Patil
scope=row	15.			15 Oct 2009	20 March 2013		Bihar
scope=row	16.			21 March 2013	27 June 2014		Himachal Pradesh	Pranab Mukherjee
bgcolor=wheat	-	bgcolor=wheat	[1]	bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat	2 July 2014		bgcolor=wheat	19 July 2014	bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat	Punjab
scope=row	17.	[2]		19 July 2014	31 July 2019		Karnataka
scope=row	18.			1 August 2019	17 September 2021		Bihar	Ramnath Kovind
bgcolor=wheat	-	bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat	17 September 2021		bgcolor=wheat	19 February 2023	bgcolor=wheat		bgcolor=wheat	Delhi
scope=row	19.			20 February 2023	Incumbent		Tamil Nadu	Draupadi Murmu

See also

• Nagaland
• Governors of India
• Chief Minister of Nagaland

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070208084406/http://www.nagaland.nic.in/functionaries/rajbhavan/list.htm

https://nagaland.gov.in/governors

Notes and References

1. News: Meghalaya Governor Krishan Kant Paul takes additional charge of Nagaland . 28 August 2018 . The Economic Times. 2 July 2014.
2. News: P B Acharya sworn in as Nagaland Governor . 28 August 2018 . Deccan Herald. 19 July 2014.