Kavinder Gupta has been appointed as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh following a gubernatorial reshuffle announced by President Droupadi Murmu, with the decision formalized through an official notification from Rashtrapati Bhavan.
He will succeed Shiv Pratap Shukla, who has held the position since 18 February 2023. The transition will take effect once Gupta assumes office.
Before this assignment, Gupta served as the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh from 2025 until his resignation on Thursday. His transfer to Himachal Pradesh comes less than a year after taking charge in the Union Territory.
A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Gupta has a long political career, particularly in the former state of Jammu and Kashmir. He held the post of Deputy Chief Minister in 2018 during the coalition government led by Mehbooba Mufti and was the Speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly from 2015 to 2018. Over the years, he has occupied several organizational and legislative positions and remained actively involved in party politics.
Gupta’s appointment is part of the Centre’s wider reshuffle of governors across several states and Union Territories. With this posting, he becomes the 23rd Governor of Himachal Pradesh, a state that attained full statehood in 1971.
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