List of governors of Manipur
| Governor of Manipur | |
|---|---|
| Style | His Excellency |
| Residence | Raj Bhavan; Imphal |
| Appointer | President of India |
| Term length | At the pleasure of the president |
| Inaugural holder | B. K. Nehru |
| Formation | 21 January 1972 |
The Governor of Manipur is the person in charge of the Government of Manipur. They are nominated by the President of India.
List
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- indicates acting/additional charge
| # | Portrait | Name (born – died) |
Home state | Tenure in office | Appointer (President) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | Braj Kumar Nehru ICS (Retd) (1909–2001) |
Uttar Pradesh | 21 January 1972[lower-greek 1] |
20 September 1973 |
1 year, 242 days | V. V. Giri | |
| 2 | Lallan Prasad Singh ICS (Retd) (1912–1998) |
Bihar | 21 September 1973[lower-greek 2] |
11 August 1981 |
7 years, 323 days | ||
| 3 | S. M. H. Burney IAS (Retd) (1924–2014) |
Uttar Pradesh | 11 August 1981[lower-greek 3] |
11 June 1984[§][lower-greek 4] |
2 years, 305 days | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | |
| 4 | General K. V. Krishna Rao (Retd) Lua error: expandTemplate: template "post-nominals/IND" does not exist. (1923–2016) |
Andhra Pradesh | 11 June 1984[lower-greek 3] |
10 July 1989[§][lower-greek 5] |
5 years, 29 days | Zail Singh | |
| 5 | Chintamani Panigrahi (1922–2000) |
Orissa | 10 July 1989 |
19 March 1993[‡] |
3 years, 252 days | Ramaswamy Venkataraman | |
| – | K. V. Raghunatha Reddy (1924–2002) Governor of Tripura (Additional Charge) |
Andhra Pradesh | 20 March 1993 |
30 August 1993[§][lower-greek 6] |
163 days | Shankar Dayal Sharma | |
| 6 | Lieutenant General V. K. Nayar (Retd) Lua error: expandTemplate: template "post-nominals/IND" does not exist. (d. 2015) |
– | 30 August 1993 |
22 December 1994[‡] |
1 year, 114 days | ||
| – | Oudh Narayan Shrivastava IPS (Retd) (born 1935) Governor of Nagaland until 11 November 1996 |
Madhya Pradesh | 23 December 1994 |
11 November 1996 |
4 years, 343 days | ||
| 7 | 12 November 1996 |
1 December 1999 | |||||
| 8 | Ved Marwah IPS (Retd) (1934–2020) |
Delhi | 2 December 1999 |
12 June 2003[§][lower-greek 7] |
3 years, 192 days | K. R. Narayanan | |
| 9 | Arvind Dave IPS (Retd) (born 1940) |
Uttar Pradesh | 13 June 2003 |
5 August 2004 |
1 year, 53 days | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | |
| 10 | Shivinder Singh Sidhu IAS (Retd) (1929–2018) |
Punjab | 6 August 2004 |
22 July 2008[§][lower-greek 8] |
3 years, 351 days | ||
| 11 | Gurbachan Jagat IPS (Retd) (born 1942) |
Chandigarh | 23 July 2008 |
28 July 2013 |
5 years, 5 days | Pratibha Patil | |
| – | Ashwani Kumar IPS (Retd) (1950–2020) Governor of Nagaland (Additional Charge) |
Himachal Pradesh | 29 July 2013 |
30 December 2013 |
154 days | Pranab Mukherjee | |
| 12 | Vinod Kumar Duggal IAS (Retd) (born 1944) |
Punjab | 31 December 2013 |
14 September 2014[‡] |
257 days | ||
| – | Krishan Kant Paul IPS (Retd) (born 1948) Governor of Meghalaya, until Jan'2015 Governor of Uttarakhand, from Jan'2015 (Additional Charge) |
Chandigarh | 16 September 2014 |
15 May 2015 |
241 days | ||
| 13 | Syed Ahmed (1943–2015) |
Maharashtra | 16 May 2015 |
27 September 2015[†] |
134 days | ||
| – | V. Shanmuganathan (born 1949) Governor of Meghalaya (Additional Charge) |
Tamil Nadu | 30 September 2015 |
20 August 2016 |
325 days | ||
| 14 | Najma Heptulla (born 1940) |
Madhya Pradesh | 21 August 2016 |
1 May 2018 |
1 year, 253 days | ||
| – | Jagdish Mukhi (born 1942) Governor of Assam (Acting) |
Delhi | 2 May 2018 |
30 May 2018 |
28 days | Ram Nath Kovind | |
| (14) | Najma Heptulla (born 1940) |
Madhya Pradesh | 31 May 2018 |
26 June 2019 |
1 year, 26 days | ||
| – | Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya (1931–2023) Governor of Nagaland (Acting) |
Karnataka | 27 June 2019 |
22 July 2019 |
25 days | ||
| (14) | Najma Heptulla (born 1940) |
Madhya Pradesh | 23 July 2019 |
11 August 2021 |
2 years, 19 days | ||
| – | Ganga Prasad (born 1939) Governor of Sikkim (Additional Charge) |
Bihar | 12 August 2021 |
26 August 2021 |
14 days | ||
| 15 | La. Ganesan (1945–2025) |
Tamil Nadu | 27 August 2021 |
21 February 2023[§][lower-greek 9] |
1 year, 178 days | ||
| 16 | Anusuiya Uikey (born 1957) |
Madhya Pradesh | 22 February 2023 |
30 July 2024 |
1 year, 159 days | Droupadi Murmu | |
| – | Lakshman Prasad Acharya (born 1954) Governor of Assam (Additional Charge) |
Uttar Pradesh | 31 July 2024 |
2 January 2025 |
155 days | ||
| 17 | Ajay Kumar Bhalla IAS (Retd) (born 1960) |
Punjab | 3 January 2025 |
Incumbent | 259 days | ||
- ↑ Concurrently also served as the Governor of Assam and Nagaland (1968–1973); and Governor of Meghalaya and Tripura (1972–1973)
- ↑ Concurrently also served as the Governor of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Concurrently also served as the Governor of Nagaland and Tripura
- ↑ Transferred as the Governor of Haryana
- ↑ Transferred as the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
- ↑ Transferred as the Governor of West Bengal
- ↑ Transferred as the Governor of Jharkhand
- ↑ Transferred as the Governor of Goa
- ↑ Transferred as the Governor of Nagaland