List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh

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.^[1]

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; 38 years ago (1987-02-20)
Website	http://arunachalgovernor.gov.in/

Arunachal Pradesh is in India.

Powers and functions

See also: Powers and functions of the governor

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

Legend

• ^† Died in office
• ^§ Transferred
• ^‡ Resigned/removed

Color key

•    indicates acting/additional charge

Chief Commissioners of Arunachal Pradesh (1972–1975)

#	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

Lieutenant Governors of Arunachal Pradesh (1975–1987)

#	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

Governors of Arunachal Pradesh (1987–present)

• Ref: ^[2][3]

#	Portrait	Name (born – died)	Home state	Tenure in office			Appointer (President)
				From	To	Time in office
1		Bhishma Narain Singh (1933–2018) Governor of Assam and Meghalaya	Bihar	20 February 1987	18 March 1987	26 days	Zail Singh
2		R. D. Pradhan IAS (Retd) (1928–2020)	Maharashtra	18 March 1987	16 March 1990[‡]	2 years, 363 days
–		Gopal Singh (1917–1990) Governor of Nagaland (Additional Charge)	Punjab	16 March 1990	8 May 1990[‡]	53 days	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
–		Devi Das Thakur (1929–2007) Governor of Assam (Additional Charge)	Jammu and Kashmir	8 May 1990	16 March 1991[‡]	312 days
–		Lokanath Misra (1921–2009) Governor of Assam (Additional Charge)	Orissa	17 March 1991	25 March 1991	8 days
3		Surendranath Dwivedy (1913–2001)	Orissa	26 March 1991	4 July 1993[‡]	2 years, 100 days
–		Madhukar Dighe (1920–2014) Governor of Meghalaya (Additional Charge)	Uttar Pradesh	4 July 1993	20 October 1993	108 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma
4		Mata Prasad (1925–2021)	Uttar Pradesh	20 October 1993	16 May 1999	5 years, 208 days
–		Lieutenant General Srinivas Kumar Sinha (Retd) PVSM ADC (1926–2016) Governor of Assam (Additional Charge)	Bihar	16 May 1999	1 August 1999	77 days	K. R. Narayanan
5		Arvind Dave IPS (Retd) (born 1940)	Uttar Pradesh	1 August 1999	12 June 2003[§][α]	3 years, 315 days
6		Vinod Chandra Pande IAS (Retd) (1938–2005)	Uttar Pradesh	12 June 2003	15 December 2004	1 year, 186 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
7		Shilendra Kumar Singh IFS (Retd) (1932–2009)	Delhi	16 December 2004	23 January 2007	2 years, 38 days
–		M. M. Jacob (1926–2018) Governor of Meghalaya (Acting)	Kerala	24 January 2007	6 April 2007	72 days
–		Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (1932–2022) Governor of Nagaland (Acting)	Kerala	7 April 2007	14 April 2007	7 days
(7)		Shilendra Kumar Singh IFS (Retd) (1932–2009)	Delhi	15 April 2007	3 September 2007[§][β]	141 days
–		Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (1932–2022) Governor of Nagaland (Acting)	Kerala	4 September 2007	26 January 2008	144 days	Pratibha Patil
8		General Joginder Jaswant Singh (Retd) PVSM AVSM VSM ADC (born 1945)	Punjab	26 January 2008	28 May 2013	5 years, 122 days
9		Lieutenant General Nirbhay Sharma (Retd) PVSM UYSM AVSM VSM (born 1946)	Uttar Pradesh	28 May 2013	31 May 2015[§][γ]	2 years, 3 days	Pranab Mukherjee
10		Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa IAS (Retd) (born 1944)	Assam	1 June 2015	9 July 2016	1 year, 38 days
–		Tathagata Roy (born 1945) Governor of Tripura (Acting)	West Bengal	10 July 2016	12 August 2016	33 days
(10)		Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa IAS (Retd) (born 1944)	Assam	13 August 2016	13 September 2016[‡]	31 days
–		V. Shanmuganathan (born 1949) Governor of Meghalaya (Additional Charge)	Tamil Nadu	14 September 2016	27 January 2017[‡]	135 days
–		Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya (1931–2023) Governor of Nagaland (Additional Charge)	Karnataka	28 January 2017	2 October 2017	247 days
11		Brigadier B. D. Mishra (Retd) (born 1939)	Uttar Pradesh	3 October 2017	15 February 2023[§][δ]	5 years, 135 days	Ram Nath Kovind
12		Lieutenant General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik (Retd) PVSM UYSM YSM (born 1953)	Maharashtra	16 February 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 182 days	Droupadi Murmu

1. Transferred as the Governor of Manipur
2. Transferred as the Governor of Rajasthan
3. Transferred as the Governor of Mizoram
4. Transferred as the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh