List of governors of Bihar

The Governor of Bihar is the nominal head of the Indian state of Bihar. The governor is appointed by the President of India. Syed Ata Hasnain is the current governor of Bihar. Former President Zakir Husain and Ram Nath Kovind were two such governors of Bihar who succeeded on to become the President of India. Zakir Hussain was earlier succeeded to become the Vice President of India.

Powers and functions

The governor has:

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.

In his ex-officio capacity, the governor of Bihar is chancellor of the universities of Bihar (at present 12) as per the Acts of the Universities.

List Legend Died in office Transferred Resigned/removed

Color key indicates acting/additional charge

# Portrait Name(borndied) Home state Tenure in office Appointer(President) From To Time in office 1 Jairamdas Daulatram Maharashtra 1947 1948 Lord Mountbatten 2 Madhav Shrihari Aney Maharashtra 1948 1952 3 R. R. Diwakar Karnataka 1952 1957 Rajendra Prasad 4 Zakir Husain Andhra Pradesh 1957 1962 5 M. A. Ayyangar Andhra Pradesh 1962 1967 6 Nityanand Kanungo Orissa 1967 1971 Zakir Husain 7 Ujjal Narayan Sinha Bihar 1971 1971 V. V. Giri 8 Dev Kant Barooah Assam 1971 1973 9 Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare Maharashtra 1973 1976 10 Jagannath Kaushal Chandigarh 1976 1979 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 11 Krishna Ballabh Narayan Singh(Acting) Bihar 1979 1979 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 12 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai National Capital Territory of Delhi 1979 1985 13 Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah Andhra Pradesh 1985 1988 Zail Singh 14 Govind Narayan Singh Madhya Pradesh 1988 1989 Ramaswamy Venkataraman 15 Dipak Kumar Sen West Bengal 1989 1989 16 R. D. Pradhan(Additional Charge) Maharashtra 1989 1989 17 Jagannath Pahadia Rajasthan 1989 1990 18 Gangadhar Ganesh Sohani Madhya Pradesh 1990 1990 19 Mohammad Yunus Saleem Uttar Pradesh 1990 1991 20 B. Satya Narayan Reddy(Additional Charge) Andhra Pradesh 1991 1991 21 Mohammad Shafi Qureshi Jammu and Kashmir 1991 1993 22 Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai National Capital Territory of Delhi 1993 1998 Shankar Dayal Sharma 23 Sunder Singh Bhandari Rajasthan 1998 1999 K. R. Narayanan 24 Brij Mohan Lal National Capital Territory of Delhi 1999 1999 25 Suraj Bhan(Additional Charge) Haryana 1999 1999 26 Vinod Chandra Pande Uttar Pradesh 1999 2003 27 Mandagadde Rama Jois Karnataka 2003 2004 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 28 Ved Marwah(Additional Charge) National Capital Territory of Delhi 2004 2004 29 Buta Singh Punjab 2004 2006 30 Gopalkrishna Gandhi(Additional Charge) National Capital Territory of Delhi 2006 2006 31 R. S. Gavai Maharashtra 2006 2008 32 R. L. Bhatia Punjab 2008 2009 Pratibha Patil 33 Devanand Konwar Assam 2009 2013 34 D. Y. Patil Maharashtra 2013 2014 Pranab Mukherjee 35 Keshari Nath Tripathi Uttar Pradesh 2014 2015 36 Ram Nath Kovind Uttar Pradesh 2015 2017 37 Keshari Nath Tripathi(Additional Charge) Uttar Pradesh 2017 2017 38 Satya Pal Malik Uttar Pradesh 2017 2018 Ram Nath Kovind 39 Lalji Tandon Uttar Pradesh 2018 2019 40 Phagu Chauhan Uttar Pradesh 2019 2023 41 Rajendra Arlekar Goa 2023 2025 Droupadi Murmu 42 Arif Mohammad Khan Uttar Pradesh 2025 2026 43 Syed Ata Hasnain Uttarakhand 2026 Incumbent

Timeline

Timeline of Bihar governors Oath Main, [Name], Ishwar ki shapath leta hoon (ya nishtha se pratigya karta hoon) ki main sachhe mann se Governor (Rajyapal) ke roop mein [State Name] ke pad ka karyabhar sambhalunga (ya zimmedari uthaunga). Main apni poori kabiliyat se Samvidhan (Constitution) aur kanoon (Law) ki raksha, suraksha aur bachaav karunga, aur main apne aap ko [State Name] ki janta ki seva aur kalyan (well-being) mein samarpit karunga."

List of governors of Bihar

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