List of governors of Gujarat

The governor of Gujarat is the nominal head of the Indian state of Gujarat. The governor is appointed by the president of India and resides in Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar. Acharya Devvrat took charge as the governor on 22 July 2019.

Governor of Gujarat
Emblem of Gujarat
Incumbent Acharya Devvrat since 21 July 2019
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Raj Bhavan; Gandhinagar
Appointer	President of India
Term length	At the pleasure of the President
Inaugural holder	Mehdi Nawaz Jung
Formation	1 May 1960; 64 years ago (1960-05-01)
Website	https://rajbhavan.gujarat.gov.in

Gujarat is in western India.

Powers and functions

See also: Governors of India § 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 Gujarat

Key

•	indicates that this was an additional charge or acting

#	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Duration	Home State	Appointed by
1.	Mehdi Nawaz Jung		1 May 1960	1 August 1965	5 years, 92 days	Andhra Pradesh	Rajendra Prasad
2.	Nityanand Kanungo		1 August 1965	7 December 1967	2 years, 128 days	Odisha	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
-	P.N. Bhagwati		7 December 1967	26 December 1967	19 days	Gujarat	Zakir Husain
3.	Shriman Narayan		26 December 1967	17 March 1973	5 years, 81 days	Not Known
-	P.N. Bhagwati		17 March 1973	4 April 1973	18 days	Gujarat	V. V. Giri
4.	K. K. Viswanathan		4 April 1973	14 August 1978	5 years, 132 days	Kerala
5.	Sharda Mukherjee		14 August 1978	6 August 1983	4 years, 357 days	Maharashtra	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
6.	K.M. Chandy		6 August 1983	26 April 1984	264 days	Kerala	Zail Singh
7.	Braj Kumar Nehru		26 April 1984	26 February 1986	1 year, 306 days	Uttar Pradesh
8.	Ram Krishna Trivedi		26 February 1986	2 May 1990	4 years, 65 days	Not Known
9.	Mahipal Shastri		2 May 1990	21 December 1990	233 days	Uttar Pradesh	R. Venkataraman
10.	Sarup Singh		21 December 1990	1 July 1995	4 years, 192 days	Haryana
11.	Naresh Chandra		1 July 1995	1 March 1996	244 days	Uttar Pradesh	Shankar Dayal Sharma
12.	Krishna Pal Singh		1 March 1996	25 April 1998	2 years, 55 days	Madhya Pradesh
13.	Anshuman Singh		25 April 1998	16 January 1999	266 days	Uttar Pradesh	K. R. Narayan
-	K.G. Balakrishnan[1]		16 January 1999	18 March 1999	61 days	Kerala
14.	Sunder Singh Bhandari		18 March 1999	7 May 2003	4 years, 50 days	Rajasthan
15.	Kailashpati Mishra		7 May 2003	2 July 2004	1 year, 56 days	Bihar	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
-	Balram Jakhar		2 July 2004	24 July 2004	22 days	Punjab
16.	Nawal Kishore Sharma		24 July 2004	24 July 2009	5 years, 0 days	Rajasthan
-	S. C. Jamir[2]		30 July 2009	26 November 2009	119 days	Nagaland	Pratibha Patil
17.	Kamla Beniwal		27 November 2009	6 July 2014	4 years, 221 days	Rajasthan
-	Margaret Alva		7 July 2014	15 July 2014	8 days	Karnataka	Pranab Mukherjee
18.	Om Prakash Kohli		16 July 2014[3]	21 July 2019	5 years, 5 days	Delhi
19.	Acharya Devvrat		22 July 2019	Incumbent	5 years, 147 days	Haryana	Ramnath Kovind

References

1. K.G. Balakrishnan as Governor of Gujarat Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
2. Jamir served as acting governor during Dwivedi's official term of service as well as after his death.
3. "O P Kohli takes oath as Gujarat governor". Timesofindia Journal. Retrieved 19 July 2014.