Bhopinder Singh Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Lieutenant General
Bhopinder Singh
Spouse:Bhawanee Singh
Birth Date:1946 3, df=y
Office:Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Term Start:29 December 2006
Term End:30 June 2013
Appointer:A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Predecessor:Madan Mohan Lakhera
Successor:A. K. Singh
Office1:Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry
Term Start1:15 March 2008
Term End1:22 July 2008
Appointer1:Pratibha Patil
Status1:Additional charge
Predecessor1:Mukut Mithi
Successor1:Govind Singh Gurjar
1Blankname1:Chief Minister
1Namedata1:N. Rangaswamy

Lt. Gen. Bhopinder Singh (born 20 March 1946) is the former Lieutenant Governor of The Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Pondicherry and an Indian Army officer who has been awarded the PVSM. He was the former military secretary to president K. R. Narayanan and to President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. He was the former military, naval and air attaché for East and Southern Africa headquartered at Addis Ababa.

He was the former Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Following the resignation of Mukut Mithi as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, Singh was appointed to replace him on 13 March 2008 and sworn in on 15 March.[1]

In the year 2017, he published his book Bayoneting with Opinions and in 2019 published another book Continuing Opinions in Difficult Times.

He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy. He currently resides in Chandigarh in India.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200803151424.htm "Bhopinder Singh sworn as Lt Governor of Puducherry"