Acharya Devvrat | |
Office: | 20th Governor of Gujarat |
1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata: | |
Predecessor: | Om Prakash Kohli |
Term Start: | 22 July 2019 |
Office1: | 18th Governor of Himachal Pradesh |
1Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata1: | |
Term Start1: | 12 August 2015 |
Term End1: | 21 July 2019 |
Predecessor1: | Kalyan Singh |
Successor1: | Kalraj Mishra |
Birth Date: | 1959 1, df=y |
Birth Place: | Samalkha, Punjab (now Haryana), India |
Spouse: | Darsana Devi |
Residence: | Raj Bhavan, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India |
Office2: | 12th Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith |
Termstart2: | 20 October 2022 |
Predecessor2: | Ela Bhatt |
Acharya Devvrat (born 18 January 1959) is an Indian politician and former educationalist who is serving as the 20th Governor of Gujarat. He is an Arya Samaj pracharak and served previously as the principal of a Gurukul in Kurukshetra, Haryana.[1] [2] [3] [4] Being the Governor of Gujarat, he is also the Chancellor of state universities of Gujarat.
In August 2015, Devvrat was appointed the Governor of Himachal Pradesh.[5] He continued till 21 July 2019, when he was replaced by Kalraj Mishra.[5]
In June 2019, he was named as Governor of Gujarat replacing Om Prakash Kohli.[6]
Devvrat was born in Samalkha, then in East Punjab, now in Haryana.[4] He is married to Darsana Devi.[7]
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