Banwarilal Purohit

Banwarilal Purohit
Purohit in February 2017
29th Governor of Punjab
In office
31 August 2021 – 28 July 2024
PresidentRam Nath Kovind
Droupadi Murmu
Chief MinisterAmarinder Singh
Charanjit Singh Channi
Bhagwant Mann
Preceded byV. P. Singh Badnore
Succeeded byGulab Chand Kataria
16th Administrator of Chandigarh
In office
31 August 2021 – 28 July 2024
PresidentRam Nath Kovind
Droupadi Murmu
Preceded byV. P. Singh Badnore
Succeeded byGulab Chand Kataria
14th Governor of Tamil Nadu
In office
6 October 2017 – 17 September 2021
PresidentRam Nath Kovind
Chief MinisterEdappadi K. Palaniswami
M. K. Stalin
Preceded byC. Vidyasagar Rao (additional charge)
Succeeded byR. N. Ravi
25th Governor of Assam
In office
22 August 2016 – 29 September 2017
PresidentRam Nath Kovind
Chief MinisterSarbananda Sonowal
Preceded byPadmanabha Acharya (additional charge)
Succeeded byJagdish Mukhi
16th Governor of Meghalaya[1]
Additional charge
In office
27 January 2017 – 5 October 2017
PresidentRam Nath Kovind
Chief MinisterMukul Sangma
Preceded byV. Shanmuganathan
Succeeded byGanga Prasad
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
for Nagpur[2]
In office
1984–1991
Preceded byJambuwantrao Dhote
Succeeded byDatta Meghe
In office
1996–1998
Preceded byDatta Meghe
Succeeded byVilas Muttemwar
Personal details
Born (1940-04-16) 16 April 1940 (age 84)
Nawalgarh, Rajputana Agency, British India (present-day Rajasthan, India)
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
ResidenceRaj Bhavan, Punjab

Banwarilal Purohit (born 16 April 1940)[3] is an Indian politician. He was the former Governor of Punjab, India and Administrator of Chandigarh from September 2021, Governor of Tamil Nadu from 2017 to 2021, and former Governor of Assam from 2016 to 2017. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a Member of Parliament from the Nagpur (Lok Sabha constituency) three times, twice as an Indian National Congress member, once as a BJP member.

  1. ^ "President Mukherjee accepts V Shanmuganathan's resignation".
  2. ^ "Banwarilal Purohit Lok Sabha Profiel". Lok Sabha. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  3. ^ "His Excellency Governor of Tamil Nadu". www.assembly.tn.gov.in. Retrieved 15 March 2021.