New Governors and Lieutenant Governors Appointed

On 5th March 2026, President Droupadi Murmu appointed new Governors and Lieutenant Governors for several States and Union Territories.

Shiv Pratap Shukla, Governor of Himachal Pradesh, has been appointed Governor of Telangana.
Jishnu Dev Varma, Governor of Telangana, has been appointed Governor of Maharashtra.
Former Bihar Assembly Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav has been appointed Governor of Nagaland.
Lieutenant General (Retd.) Syed Ata Hasnain has been appointed Governor of Bihar.
R. N. Ravi, Governor of Tamil Nadu, has been appointed Governor of West Bengal.
Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Governor of Kerala, will discharge the functions of the Governor of Tamil Nadu.
Kavinder Gupta, Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, has been appointed Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
Vinai Kumar Saxena, Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh.
Former diplomat Taranjit Singh Sandhu has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.