List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh is in northeast India.

The Governor of Arunachal Pradesh is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Governor is appointed by the President for a term of 5 years. The current governor is V. Shanmuganathan.

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.

List of Chief Commissioners of Arunachal Pradesh

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	K. A. A. Raja	20 January 1972	1973
2	Manohar L. Kampani	1974	1975

List of Lieutenant Governors of Arunachal Pradesh

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	K. A. A. Raja	15 August 1975	18 January 1979
2	R. N. Haldipur	18 January 1979	23 July 1981
3	H. S. Dubey	23 July 1981	10 August 1983
4	Thanjavelu Rajeshwar	10 August 1983	21 November 1985
5	Shiva Swaroop	21 November 1985	20 February 1987

List of Governors of Arunachal Pradesh

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	Bhisma Narain Singh	20 February 1987	18 March 1987
2	R.D. Pradhan	18 March 1987	16 March 1990
3	Gopal Singh	16 March 1990	8 May 1990
4	Devi Das Thakur	8 May 1990	16 March 1991
5	Loknath Mishra	16 March 1991	25 March 1991
6	Surendranath Dwivedy	25 March 1991	4 July 1993
7	Madhukar Dighe	4 July 1993	20 October 1993
8	Mata Prasad	20 October 1993	16 May 1999
9	S.K. Sinha	16 May 1999	1 August 1999
10	Arvind Dave	1 August 1999	12 June 2003
11	V. C. Pande	12 June 2003	15 December 2004
12	Shilendra Kumar Singh	15 December 2004	3 September 2007
13	K. Sankaranarayanan	3 September 2007	26 January 2008
14	Joginder Jaswant Singh	26 January 2008	28 May 2013
15	Nirbhay Sharma	28 May 2013	12 May 2015
16	Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa	12 May 2015	14 September 2016
17	V. Shanmuganathan	14 September 2016	Incumbent

External links

• http://arunachalgovernor.gov.in/