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.