List of governors of Sikkim

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Governor of Sikkim

Emblem of Sikkim

Incumbent
Om Prakash Mathur

since 31 July 2024

Style| His Excellency
Residence| Raj Bhavan, Gangtok
Appointer| President of India
Term length| At the pleasure of the president
Inaugural holder| B. B. Lal
Formation| 18 May 1975; 50 years ago (1975-05-18)
Website| rajbhavansikkim.gov.in

The state of Sikkim is in northeast India.

The governor of Sikkim is the head of the Indian state of Sikkim. The governor is appointed by the president of India and is the nominal head of the state's executive power. This is a list of the governors of Sikkim. There are 19 governors if governors with additional charge also counted.

## Powers and functions

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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.

## Governors of Sikkim

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Key   •  | indicates that this was an additional charge

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List of governors of Sikkim #  | Name  | Portrait  | Took office  | Left office  | Term in Office  | Home State  | Appointed by

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1\.  | B. B. Lal |  | 18 May 1975  | 9 January 1981  | 5 years, 236 days  | Not Known  | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
2\.  | Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan |  | 10 January 1981  | 17 June 1984  | 3 years, 159 days  | Maharashtra | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
3\.  | Kona Prabhakar Rao |  | 18 June 1984  | 30 May 1985  | 346 days  | Andhra Pradesh | Zail Singh
–  | Bhishma Narain Singh |  | 31 May 1985  | 20 November 1985  | 173 days  | Jharkhand
4\.  | T.V. Rajeswar |  | 21 November 1985  | 1 March 1989  | 3 years, 100 days  | Tamil Nadu
5\.  | S.K. Bhatnagar |  | 2 March 1989  | 7 February 1990  | 342 days  | Not Known  | R. Venkataraman
6\.  | Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani |  | 8 February 1990  | 20 September 1994  | 4 years, 224 days  | Maharashtra
7\.  | P. Shiv Shankar |  | 21 September 1994  | 11 November 1995  | 355 days  | Andhra Pradesh | Shankar Dayal Sharma
–  | K.V. Raghunatha Reddy |  | 12 November 1995  | 9 February 1996  | 89 days
8\.  | Chaudhary Randhir Singh |  | 10 February 1996  | 17 May 2001  | 5 years, 96 days  | Haryana
9\.  | Kidar Nath Sahani |  | 18 May 2001  | 25 October 2002  | 1 year, 160 days  | Delhi | K. R. Narayan
10\.  | V. Rama Rao |  | 26 October 2002  | 12 July 2006  | 3 years, 259 days  | Andhra Pradesh | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
—  | R.S. Gavai |  | 13 July 2006  | 12 August 2006  | 30 days  | Maharashtra
(10).  | V. Rama Rao |  | 13 August 2006  | 25 October 2007  | 1 year, 73 days  | Andhra Pradesh
11\.  | Sudarshan Agarwal |  | 25 October 2007  | 8 July 2008  | 257 days  | Punjab | Pratibha Patil
12\.  | Balmiki Prasad Singh |  | 9 July 2008  | 30 June 2013  | 4 years, 356 days  | Bihar
13\.  | Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil[1] |  | 1 July 2013  | 26 August 2018  | 5 years, 56 days  | Maharashtra | Pranab Mukherjee
14\.  | Ganga Prasad |  | 26 August 2018[2] | 12 February 2023  | 4 years, 170 days  | Bihar | Ramnath Kovind
15\.  | Lakshman Acharya |  | 13 February 2023  | 30 July 2024  | 1 year, 168 days  | Uttar Pradesh | Draupadi Murmu
16\.  | Om Prakash Mathur[3] |  | 31 July 2024  | Incumbent | 354 days  | Rajasthan

## See also

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* Sikkim
* Chief Minister of Sikkim
* Governors of India

## Notes and references

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1. ^ "Shriniwas Patil named new Sikkim governor". NDTV. Press Trust of India. 3 July 2013.
2. ^ "Ganga Prasad sworn in as Sikkim Governor". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 26 August 2018.
3. ^ "Sikkim: Veteran BJP Leader, Ex-RSS Pracharak Appointed As New Governor". Newsx. Retrieved 28 July 2024.

## External links

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* The Raj Bhavan

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Lists of governors of the states of India (and incumbents)

| Andhra Pradesh|

Syed Abdul Nazeer

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Arunachal Pradesh|

Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik

Assam|

Lakshman Acharya

Bihar|

Arif Mohammad Khan

Chhattisgarh|

Ramen Deka

Goa|

Ashok Gajapathi Raju

Gujarat|

Acharya Devvrat

Haryana|

Ashim Kumar Ghosh

Himachal Pradesh|

Shiv Pratap Shukla

Jharkhand|

Santosh Gangwar

| Karnataka|

Thawar Chand Gehlot

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Kerala|

Rajendra Arlekar

Madhya Pradesh|

Mangubhai C. Patel

Maharashtra|

C. P. Radhakrishnan

Manipur|

Ajay Kumar Bhalla

Meghalaya|

C. H. Vijayashankar

Mizoram|

V. K. Singh

Nagaland|

La. Ganesan

Odisha|

Kambhampati Hari Babu

Punjab|

Gulab Chand Kataria

| Rajasthan|

Haribhau Bagade

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Sikkim|

Om Prakash Mathur

Tamil Nadu|

R. N. Ravi

Telangana|

Jishnu Dev Varma

Tripura|

N. Indrasena Reddy

Uttar Pradesh|

Anandiben Patel

Uttarakhand|

Gurmit Singh

West Bengal|

C. V. Ananda Bose

* Official residence
* Female governors

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Governors of Sikkim

* B. B. Lal
* Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan
* Kona Prabhakara Rao
* Bhishma Narain Singh§
* T. V. Rajeswar
* S. K. Bhatnagar
* Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani
* P. Shiv Shankar
* K. V. Raghunatha Reddy§
* Chaudhary Randhir Singh
* Kidar Nath Sahani
* V. Rama Rao
* R. S. Gavai#
* V. Rama Rao
* Sudarshan Agarwal
* Balmiki Prasad Singh
* Shriniwas Patil
* Ganga Prasad
* Lakshman Acharya

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