List of governors of Uttar Pradesh
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Governor of Uttar Pradesh | |
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Uttara Pradēśa kē Rājyapāla | |
since 29 July 2019 | |
Style | Her Excellency |
Type | Governor |
Residence | Raj Bhavan; Lucknow |
Appointer | President of India |
Term length | At the pleasure of the President |
Inaugural holder | Sarojini Naidu (Independent India) Sir Harcourt Butler (Pre-Independent India) |
Formation | 3 January 1921 |
First holder | Hormasji Peroshaw Mody As the Governor of Uttar Pradesh Sarojini Naidu As the Governor of United Provinces, Dominion of India Harcourt Butler As the Governor of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India |
Salary | ₹470,000 (US$5,600) per month[1] |
Website | Governor of Uttar Pradesh |
The governor of Uttar Pradesh (ISO: Uttara Pradēśa kē Rājyapāla) is the constitutional head of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The governor is appointed by the president of India. The post is preceded by the governor of United Provinces of pre-independent India as well as independent India from 15 August 1947 to 25 January 1950. The province was renamed as Uttar Pradesh on 24 January 1950.
Powers and functions
[edit]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 Uttar Pradesh is chancellor of the universities of Uttar Pradesh as per the Acts of the Universities.
Governors of United Provinces (1921–1950)
[edit]# | Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office | Duration |
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Governors of United Provinces of British India (3 January 1921 – 1 April 1937) | |||||
1 | Harcourt Butler | 3 January 1921 | 21 December 1922 | ||
- | Ludovic Charles Porter | 21 December 1922 | 24 December 1922 | ||
2 | William Sinclair Marris | 24 December 1922 | 13 August 1926 | ||
- | Samuel Perry O'Donnell | 13 August 1926 | 1 December 1926 | ||
(2) | William Sinclair Marris | 1 December 1926 | 14 January 1928 | ||
3 | Alexander Phillips Muddiman | 15 January 1928 | 17 June 1928 | ||
4 | William Malcolm Hailey | 10 August 1928 | 21 December 1928 | ||
22 April 1929 | 16 October 1930 | ||||
- | George Bancroft Lambert | 16 October 1930 | 19 April 1931 | ||
(4) | William Malcolm Hailey | 19 April 1931 | 6 April 1933 | ||
- | Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari | 8 April 1933 | 27 November 1933 | ||
(4) | William Malcolm Hailey | 27 November 1933 | 5 December 1934 | ||
5 | Harry Graham Haig | 6 December 1934 | 1 April 1937 | ||
Governors of United Provinces (1 April 1937 – 25 January 1950) |
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5 | Harry Graham Haig | 1 April 1937 | 16 May 1938 | ||
17 September 1938 | 6 December 1939 | ||||
6 | Maurice Garnier Hallett | 7 December 1939 | 6 December 1945 | ||
7 | Francis Verner Wylie | 7 December 1945 | 14 August 1947 | ||
8 | Sarojini Naidu | 15 August 1947 | 2 March 1949 | ||
- | Justice B.B Malik | 3 March 1949 | 1 May 1949 | ||
9 | Sir Hormasji Pherozeshah Modi | 2 May 1949 | 25 January 1950 |
List of governors of Uttar Pradesh (1950–present)
[edit]• | indicates that this was an additional charge |
# | Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office | Duration | Home State | Appointed by |
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Governors of Uttar Pradesh (26 January 1950–Present) | |||||||
1. | Sir Hormasji Pherozeshah Modi | 26 January 1950 | 1 June 1952 | 2 years, 127 days | Bombay | Rajendra Prasad | |
2. | Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi | 2 June 1952 | 9 June 1957 | 5 years, 7 days | Gujarat | ||
3. | Varahgiri Venkat Giri | 10 June 1957 | 30 June 1960 | 3 years, 20 days | Odisha | ||
4. | Burgula Ramakrishna Rao | 1 July 1960 | 15 April 1962 | 1 year, 288 days | Andhra Pradesh | ||
5. | Bishwanath Das | 16 April 1962 | 30 April 1967 | 5 years, 14 days | Odisha | ||
6. | Dr. Bezwada Gopala Reddy | 1 May 1967 | 30 June 1972 | 5 years, 60 days | Andhra Pradesh | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | |
– | Shashi Kant Varma[2] | 1 July 1972 | 13 November 1972 | 135 days | Not Known | V. V. Giri | |
7. | Akbar Ali Khan | 14 November 1972 | 24 October 1974 | 1 year, 344 days | Andhra Pradesh | ||
8. | Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy | 25 October 1974 | 1 October 1977 | 2 years, 341 days | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | ||
9. | Ganpatrao Devji Tapase | 2 October 1977 | 27 February 1980 | 2 years, 148 days | Maharashtra | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy | |
10. | Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh | 28 February 1980 | 31 March 1985 | 5 years, 31 days | Bihar | ||
11. | Mohammed Usman Arif | 31 March 1985 | 11 February 1990 | 4 years, 317 days | Rajasthan | Zail Singh | |
12. | B. Satya Narayan Reddy | 12 February 1990 | 25 May 1993 | 3 years, 102 days | Andhra Pradesh | R. Venkataraman | |
13. | Motilal Vora | 26 May 1993 | 3 May 1996 | 2 years, 343 days | Madhya Pradesh | Shankar Dayal Sharma | |
– | Mohammad Shafi Qureshi | 3 May 1996 | 19 July 1996 | 77 days | Jammu and Kashmir | ||
14. | Romesh Bhandari | 19 July 1996 | 17 March 1998 | 1 year, 241 days | Punjab | ||
– | Mohammad Shafi Qureshi | 17 March 1998 | 19 April 1998 | 33 days | Jammu and Kashmir | K. R. Narayan | |
15. | Suraj Bhan | 20 April 1998 | 23 November 2000 | 2 years, 217 days | Haryana | ||
16. | Vishnu Kant Shastri | 24 November 2000 | 2 July 2004 | 3 years, 221 days | West Bengal | ||
– | Sudarshan Agrawal | 3 July 2004 | 7 July 2004 | 4 days | Punjab | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | |
17. | T. V. Rajeswar | 8 July 2004 | 27 July 2009 | 5 years, 19 days | Tamil Nadu | ||
18. | Banwari Lal Joshi | 28 July 2009 | 17 June 2014 | 4 years, 324 days | Rajasthan | Pratibha Patil | |
– | Aziz Qureshi | 17 June 2014 | 22 July 2014 | 35 days | Madhya Pradesh | Pranab Mukherjee | |
19. | Ram Naik | 22 July 2014 | 28 July 2019 | 5 years, 7 days | Maharashtra | ||
20. | Anandiben Patel | 29 July 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 143 days | Gujarat | Ramnath Kovind |
See also
[edit]- Uttar Pradesh
- (1732–1857) – Nawabs of Awadh
- (1834–1836) – Governors of Agra
- (1836–1877) – Lieutenant Governors of the North-Western Provinces
- (1856–1877) – Chief Commissioners of Oudh
- (1877–1902) – Lieutenant Governors of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioners of Oudh
- (1902–1921) – Lieutenant Governors of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
- (1921–1937) – Governors of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
- (1937–1950) – Governors of the United Provinces
- Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
- Governors of India
References
[edit]- ^ "India Code: Section Details". 1 January 2016.
- ^ "Uttar Pradesh Vidhanparishad". Upvidhanparishad.nic.in. Retrieved 23 April 2019.