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Governor of Arunachal Pradesh
Emblem of Arunachal Pradesh
Incumbent Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik since 16 February 2023
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan; Itanagar
Appointer	President of India
Term length	At the pleasure of the President
Inaugural holder	Bhishma Narain Singh
Formation	20 February 1987; 37 years ago (1987-02-20)
Website	http://arunachalgovernor.gov.in/

The governor of Arunachal Pradesh is the nominal head of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The governor is appointed by the president of India. The current governor is Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik.

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	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Duration
1	K. A. A. Raja		20 January 1972	1973	1 year
2	Manohar L. Kampani		1974	1975	1 year

List of lieutenant governors of Arunachal Pradesh

#	Name	Image	Took office	Left office	Duration
1	K. A. A. Raja		15 August 1975	18 January 1979	3 years, 5 months and 4 days
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

Data from Arunachal Pradesh Governor's Secretariat and Directorate of Information & Public Relations, Government of Arunachal Pradesh

#	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Duration	Home State	Appointed by
1.	Bhishma Narain Singh		20 February 1987	18 March 1987	26 days	Bihar	Zail Singh
2.	R. D. Pradhan		18 March 1987	16 March 1990	2 years, 363 days	Maharashtra
3.	Gopal Singh		16 March 1990	8 May 1990	53 days	Rajasthan	R. Venkataraman
4.	Devi Das Thakur		8 May 1990	16 March 1991	312 days	Jammu and Kashmir
5.	Loknath Mishra		16 March 1991	25 March 1991	9 days	Odisha
6.	Surendranath Dwivedy		25 March 1991	4 July 1993	2 years, 101 days
7.	Madhukar Dighe		4 July 1993	20 October 1993	108 days	Uttar Pradesh	Shankar Dayal Sharma
8.	Mata Prasad		20 October 1993	16 May 1999	5 years, 208 days	Not Known
9.	S. K. Sinha		16 May 1999	1 August 1999	77 days		K. R. Narayan
10.	Arvind Dave		1 August 1999	12 June 2003	3 years, 315 days	Rajasthan
11.	V. C. Pande		12 June 2003	15 December 2004	1 year, 186 days	Jammu and Kashmir	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
12.	Shilendra Kumar Singh		16 December 2004	23 January 2007	2 years, 38 days	Rajasthan
—	M. M. Jacob		24 January 2007	6 April 2007	72 days	Kerala
—	K. Sankaranarayanan		7 April 2007	14 April 2007	7 days
(12).	Shilendra Kumar Singh		15 April 2007	3 September 2007	141 days	Rajasthan
—	K. Sankaranarayanan		3 September 2007	26 January 2008	145 days	Kerala	Pratibha Patil
13.	Joginder Jaswant Singh		26 January 2008	28 May 2013	5 years, 122 days	Punjab
14.	Nirbhay Sharma		28 May 2013	31 May 2015	2 years, 3 days	Uttar Pradesh	Pranab Mukherjee
15.	Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa		1 June 2015	9 July 2016	1 year, 38 days	Assam
16.	Tathagata Roy		10 July 2016	12 August 2016	33 days	West Bengal
(15).	Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa		13 August 2016	13 September 2016	31 days	Assam
17.	V. Shanmuganathan		14 September 2016	27 January 2017 (resigned)	135 days	Tamil Nadu
18.	Padmanabha Acharya		28 January 2017	2 October 2017	247 days	Karnataka
19.	B. D. Mishra		3 October 2017	15 February 2023	5 years, 135 days	Uttar Pradesh	Ramnath Kovind
20.	Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik		16 February 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 308 days	Maharashtra	Draupadi Murmu

References

1. Nair, Arun, ed. (30 September 2017). "President Kovind Appoints 5 New Governors, Tamil Nadu Gets Its Own After A Year". NDTV.com. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
2. "The Governor of Arunachal Pradesh :: Past Governors". arunachalgovernor.gov.in. Governor Secretariat, Arunachal Pradesh. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
3. "Former Governor – Department of Information, Public Relation & Printing". arunachalipr.gov.in. Department of Information & Public Relations, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
4. "President Mukherjee accepts V Shanmuganathan's resignation". The New Indian Express. 27 January 2017.
5. Bureau, Delhi (30 September 2017). "Profiles of new Governors of T.N., Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh". The Hindu – via www.thehindu.com. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)

External links

• Home : Official website of the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, India

• Governors of Arunachal Pradesh
• Lists of governors of Indian states
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