Om Prakash Kohli | |
Term Start: | 16 July 2014 |
Term End: | 15 July 2019 |
1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata: | Anandiben Patel Vijay Rupani |
Office1: | Governor of Madhya Pradesh |
Status1: | Additional Charge |
Term Start1: | 8 September 2016 |
Predecessor1: | Ram Naresh Yadav |
Term End1: | 19 January 2018 |
Successor1: | Anandiben Patel |
1Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata1: | Shivraj Singh Chauhan |
Office2: | Governor of Maharashtra |
Status2: | Additional Charge |
Term Start2: | 24 August 2014 |
Term End2: | 30 August 2014 |
1Blankname2: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata2: | Prithviraj Chavan |
Predecessor2: | K. Sankaranarayanan |
Office3: | Governor of Goa |
Status3: | Additional Charge |
Term Start3: | 6 August 2014 |
Term End3: | 25 August 2014 |
1Blankname3: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata3: | Manohar Parrikar |
Predecessor3: | Margaret Alva |
Successor3: | Mridula Sinha |
Birth Date: | 9 August 1935 |
Birth Place: | Delhi, British India |
Profession: | Politician |
Successor: | Acharya Devvrat |
Om Prakash Kohli (9 August 1935 – 20 February 2023) was an Indian politician who was the Governor of Gujarat from 2014 to 2019.[1] He was the president of the Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janata Party from 1999 to 2000 and had served as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2000. He had been the president of the Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) and of the ABVP. He studied at Ramjas School and Khalsa School, New Delhi. Kohli was a Master of Arts in Hindi from the University of Delhi and a lecturer at Hansraj College and Deshbandhu College for over 37 years. He was arrested under MISA during the Emergency.[2]
From 8 September 2016 to 19 January 2018, he held the additional charge of the office of Governor of Madhya Pradesh[1] along with Gujarat. He was also designated as the Chancellor of Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar.[3] [4]
Kohli had a son (Vishu Kohli) and two daughters (Ritu Kohli and Suparna Khurana). He died on 20 February 2023, at the age of 87.[5]
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