List of governors of Tripura

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The state of Tripura is surrounded by eastern Bangladesh.

This is a list of the governors of Tripura, a state in northeast India, since its inception as a state on 21 January 1972.

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 Tripura

No	Name	Image	Took office	Left office	Duration	Home State	Appointed by
1.	B. K. Nehru	File:Braj Kumar Nehru with Kennedy (cropped).jpg	21 January 1972	22 September 1973	Template:Ayd	Uttar Pradesh	V. V. Giri
2.	L. P. Singh	File:No image available.svg	23 September 1973	13 August 1981	Template:Ayd	Bihar
3.	S. M. H. Burney	File:No image available.svg	14 August 1981	13 June 1984	Template:Ayd	Uttar Pradesh	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy
4.	K. V. Krishna Rao	File:General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao.jpg	14 June 1984	11 July 1989	Template:Ayd	Andhra Pradesh	Zail Singh
5.	Sultan Singh	File:No image available.svg	12 July 1989	11 February 1990	Template:Ayd	Punjab	R. Venkataraman
6.	K. V. Raghunatha Reddy	File:K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (cropped).jpg	12 February 1990	14 August 1993	Template:Ayd	Andhra Pradesh
7.	Romesh Bhandari	File:Romesh Bhandari.jpg	15 August 1993	15 June 1995	Template:Ayd	Delhi	Shankar Dayal Sharma
8.	Siddheshwar Prasad	File:No image available.svg	16 June 1995	22 June 2000	Template:Ayd	Bihar
9.	Krishna Mohan Seth	File:The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with the Governor of Chhattisgarh, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) K. M. Seth at Raj Bhawan in Raipur, during his one day visit to the State on April 30, 2005 (cropped).jpg	23 June 2000	31 May 2003	Template:Ayd	Uttar Pradesh	K. R. Narayan
10.	Dinesh Nandan Sahay	File:Dinesh Nandan Sahay, Governor of Tripura.jpg	2 June 2003	14 October 2009	Template:Ayd	Bihar	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
11.	Kamla Beniwal	File:Kamla Beniwal, Governor of Gujarat (cropped).jpg	15 October 2009	26 November 2009	Template:Ayd	Rajasthan	Pratibha Patil
12.	Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil	File:Shri D.Y. Patil (cropped, 3x4).jpg	27 November 2009	21 March 2013	Template:Ayd	Maharashtra
13.	Devanand Konwar	File:Pranab Mukherjee attending the Launching Ceremony of Agriculture Road Map of Bihar (2012-2017), at Patna, in Bihar. The Governor of Bihar, Shri Devanand Konwar and the Chief Minister of Bihar, Shri Nitish Kumar are also seen (cropped).jpg	25 March 2013	29 June 2014	Template:Ayd	Assam	Pranab Mukherjee
14.	Vakkom Purushothaman	File:Vakkom Purushothaman (cropped).jpg	30 June 2014	14 July 2014	Template:Ayd	Kerala
15.	Padmanabha Acharya	File:Smriti Irani meeting the Governor of Tripura Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya (cropped).jpg	21 July 2014	19 May 2015	Template:Ayd	Karnataka
16.	Tathagata Roy	File:Tathagata Roy with Rajnath Singh in May 2015 (cropped).jpg	20 May 2015	25 August 2018	Template:Ayd	West Bengal
17.	Kaptan Singh Solanki	File:Kaptan Singh Solanki.png	25 August 2018	28 July 2019	Template:Ayd	Madhya Pradesh	Ramnath Kovind
18.	Ramesh Bais	File:Ramesh Bais in 2024.jpg	29 July 2019	13 July 2021	Template:Ayd	Chhattisgarh
19.	Satyadev Narayan Arya	File:Governor of Haryana Satyadev Narayan Arya in August 2018.JPG	14 July 2021	25 October 2023	Template:Ayd	Bihar
20.	Nallu Indrasena Reddy	File:Indrasena Reddy.jpg	26 October 2023	Incumbent	Template:Ayd	Telangana	Draupadi Murmu

See also

• Tripura
• Governors of India