Banwarilal Purohit

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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.