Jagdish Mukhi

Jagdish Mukhi
Mukhi in 2018
28th Governor of Assam
In office
10 October 2017 – 20 February 2023
Chief MinisterSarbananda Sonowal
Himanta Biswa Sarma
Preceded byBanwarilal Purohit
Succeeded byGulab Chand Kataria
Governor of Nagaland
Additional Charge
In office
17 September 2021 – 19 February 2023
Chief MinisterNeiphiu Rio
Preceded byR. N. Ravi
Succeeded byLa. Ganesan
Governor of Mizoram
Additional Charge
In office
8 March 2019 – 25 October 2019
PresidentRam Nath Kovind
Chief MinisterZoramthanga
Preceded byKummanam Rajasekharan
Succeeded byP. S. Sreedharan Pillai
13th Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
In office
22 August 2016 – 7 October 2017
Preceded byA. K. Singh
Succeeded byDevendra Kumar Joshi
Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly
In office
1993–2015
Preceded by"Office Established"
Succeeded byRajesh Rishi
ConstituencyJanakpuri
Minister of Finance, Planning, Excise and Taxation and Higher Education, Government of Delhi
In office
12 October 1998 – 3 December 1998
Chief MinisterSushma Swaraj
ConstituencyJanakpuri
Personal details
Born (1942-12-01) 1 December 1942 (age 81)
Dajal, Punjab, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Other political
affiliations
National Democratic Alliance
EducationBCom(Hons) from Matsya University and M.Com/PhD (Finance) from Delhi University
Alma materKurukshetra University
Delhi University

Prof. Jagdish Mukhi (born 1 December 1942) is an Indian politician who served as the 28th Governor of Assam from 2017 to 2023 and the Governor of Nagaland (Additional Charge) from 2021 to 2023 and the Governor of Mizoram on 2019.[1][2] He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.[3] Mukhi served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands from 2016 to 2017, Minister of Finance, Planning, Excise and Taxation and Higher Education, Government of Delhi in the Swaraj ministry from 1998 to 1998 representing Janakpuri Assembly constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 2015.

  1. ^ "New governors appointed: All you need to know". The Times of India. 30 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Who is Jagdish Mukhi?". Indian Express. 30 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  3. ^ "jagdish mukhi given additional charge of mizoram until the appointment of P S Sreedharan Pillai as the new governor". uniindia. Retrieved 8 March 2019.