List of governors of Tripura explained

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

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		Uttar Pradesh	V. V. Giri
2.	L. P. Singh		23 September 1973	13 August 1981		Bihar
3.	S. M. H. Burney		14 August 1981	13 June 1984		Uttar Pradesh	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
4.	K. V. Krishna Rao		14 June 1984	11 July 1989		Andhra Pradesh	Zail Singh
5.	Sultan Singh		12 July 1989	11 February 1990		Punjab	R. Venkataraman
6.	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy		12 February 1990	14 August 1993		Andhra Pradesh
7.	Romesh Bhandari		15 August 1993	15 June 1995		Delhi	Shankar Dayal Sharma
8.	Siddheshwar Prasad		16 June 1995	22 June 2000		Bihar
9.	Krishna Mohan Seth		23 June 2000	31 May 2003		Uttar Pradesh	K. R. Narayan
10.	Dinesh Nandan Sahay		2 June 2003	14 October 2009		Bihar	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
11.	Kamla Beniwal		15 October 2009	26 November 2009		Rajasthan	Pratibha Patil
12.	Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil		27 November 2009	21 March 2013		Maharashtra
13.	Devanand Konwar		25 March 2013	29 June 2014		Assam	Pranab Mukherjee
14.	Vakkom Purushothaman		30 June 2014	14 July 2014		Kerala
15.			21 July 2014	19 May 2015		Karnataka
16.			20 May 2015[2]	25 August 2018		West Bengal
17.			25 August 2018[3]	28 July 2019		Madhya Pradesh	Ramnath Kovind
18.			29 July 2019	13 July 2021		Chhattisgarh
19.			14 July 2021	25 October 2023		Bihar
20.			26 October 2023[4]	Incumbent		Telangana	Draupadi Murmu

See also

• Tripura
• Governors of India

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tripura - Governors . tripura.nic.in . 9 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110709081847/http://tripura.nic.in/icm.htm . 9 July 2011 . dead .
2. News: Ali . Syed Sajjad . Tathagata Roy to take charge as Tripura Governor . The Hindu . 20 May 2015 . en-IN . 10 January 2021.
3. News: Solanki becomes new Tripura Guv . Business Standard . Press Trust of India . 25 August 2018.
4. News: Indra Sena Reddy Nallu takes oath as Tripura Governor . 30 October 2023 . The Hindu . 26 October 2023.