President Murmu appoints new governors in Keralam, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Karnataka in gubernatorial reshuffle
The four new governor appointments include OBC leaders Sudha Yadav and Dhal Singh Bisen, and Dalit leaders Mohan Ram and Dushyant Gautam.
On October 12, 2026, President Droupadi Murmu appointed four new Governors to six Indian states. Sudha Yadav will serve as the Governor of Karnataka, Dhal Singh Bisen as the Governor of Uttarakhand, Braj Mohan Ram as the Governor of Odisha, and Dushyant Gautam will be the Governor of Sikkim.
Om Prakash Mathur, who had been Governor of Sikkim, has been reassigned to Kerala. Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, the former Governor of Kerala, has been appointed Governor of Tamil Nadu.
Sudha Yadav, a BJP member and former Lok Sabha MP from Haryana, has been appointed. She holds an MSc and a PhD in Chemistry from IIT Roorkee and was a member of the National Commission for Backward Classes from 2019 to 2022. Dhal Singh Bisen, a Dalit leader from Madhya Pradesh, was appointed as the Governor of Uttarakhand. He is a former Lok Sabha MP from Balaghat and held various ministerial portfolios in the Madhya Pradesh government.
Braj Mohan Ram, a Dalit leader from Jharkhand, was appointed Governor of Odisha. He served as an MLA in undivided Bihar and has been associated with the Scheduled Caste Morcha. Dushyant Gautam, a former BJP National General Secretary and Rajya Sabha member, has been appointed Governor of Sikkim. He has held various organisational positions within the BJP and has been involved with initiatives concerning Scheduled Caste communities.
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