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Banwarilal Purohit
Purohit in February 2017
29th Governor of Punjab
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 August 2021
President
Ram Nath Kovind Droupadi Murmu
Chief Minister
Amarinder Singh Charanjit Singh Channi Bhagwant Mann
Preceded by
V. P. Singh Badnore
16th Administrator of Chandigarh
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 August 2021
President
Ram Nath Kovind Droupadi Murmu
Preceded by
V. P. Singh Badnore
14th Governor of Tamil Nadu
In office 6 October 2017 – 17 September 2021
President
Ram Nath Kovind
Chief Minister
Edappadi K. Palaniswami M. K. Stalin
Preceded by
C. Vidyasagar Rao (additional charge)
Succeeded by
R. N. Ravi
25th Governor of Assam
In office 22 August 2016 – 29 September 2017
President
Ram Nath Kovind
Chief Minister
Sarbananda Sonowal
Preceded by
Padmanabha Acharya (additional charge)
Succeeded by
Jagdish Mukhi
16th Governor of Meghalaya[1]
Additional charge
In office 27 January 2017 – 5 October 2017
President
Ram Nath Kovind
Chief Minister
Mukul Sangma
Preceded by
V. Shanmuganathan
Succeeded by
Ganga Prasad
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha for Nagpur[2]
In office 1984–1991
Preceded by
Jambuwantrao Dhote
Succeeded by
Datta Meghe
In office 1996–1998
Preceded by
Datta Meghe
Succeeded by
Vilas Muttemwar
Personal details
Born
(1940-04-16) 16 April 1940 (age 84) Nawalgarh, Rajputana Agency, British India (present-day Rajasthan, India)
Political party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Residence
Raj Bhavan, Punjab
Banwarilal Purohit (born 16 April 1940)[3] is an Indian politician who is serving as 29th Governor of Punjab, India and Administrator of Chandigarh from September 2021. He was the former 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.
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^"Banwarilal Purohit Lok Sabha Profiel". Lok Sabha. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
^"His Excellency Governor of Tamil Nadu". www.assembly.tn.gov.in. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
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