List of governors of Mizoram

The state of Mizoram is in northeastern India.

This is a list of governors of Mizoram, an Indian state on the border with Burma.

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.

Before statehood

S.J.Das was the chief commissioner of Mizoram from 21 January 1972 to 23 April 1972. He was followed by these Lieutenant Governors:

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	S.P.Mukherjee	24 April 1972	12 June 1974
2	S.K.Chibber	13 June 1974	26 September 1977
3	N.P.Mathur	27 September 1977	15 April 1981
4	S.N. Kohli	16 April 1981	9 August 1983
5	H.S.Dubey	10 August 1983	10 December 1986
6	Hiteswar Saikia	11 December 1986	19 February 1987

Governors of Mizoram

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	Hiteswar Saikia	20 February 1987	30 April 1989
2	General K. V. Krishna Rao (additional charge)	1 May 1989	20 July 1989
3	Capt W.A. Sangma	21 July 1989	7 February 1990
4	Swaraj Kaushal	8 February 1990	9 February 1993
5	P.R.Kyndiah	10 February 1993	28 January 1998
6	Dr A.P.Mukherjee	29 January 1998	1 May 1998
7	A. Padmanabhan	2 May 1998	30 November 2000
8	Ved Marwah (additional charge)	1 December 2000	17 May 2001
9	Amolak Rattan Kohli	18 May 2001	24 July 2006
10	Lt. Gen (Retd) M.M.Lakhera	25 July 2006	2 September 2011
11	Vakkom Purushothaman	2 September 2011	6 July 2014
12	Kamla Beniwal	6 July 2014	6 August 2014
13	Vinod Kumar Duggal (additional charge)	8 August 2014	16 September 2014
14	K. K. Paul (Addl with Meghalaya) [1]	16 September 2014	8 January 2015
15	Aziz Qureshi [2]	9 January 2015	28 March 2015
16	Keshari Nath Tripathi (additional charge)	4 April 2015	25 May 2015
17	Lt General (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma	26 May 2015	incumbent

References

1. "KK Paul to be sworn in as Mizoram governor on September 16". Times of India. 12 September 2014.
2. "Aziz Qureshi to take oath as Mizoram governor on Friday". The Economic Times. 5 January 2015.

External links

• http://mizoram.nic.in/gov/governor.htm