India’s President Droupadi Murmu appointed governors for six states on 12 October 2026.

Keralam Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar will now move to Tamil Nadu. Om Prakash Mathur is now Governor of Keralam.

Braj Mohan Ram has been appointed Governor of Odisha. Sudha Yadav takes over Karnataka. Dhal Singh Bisen is the governor of Uttarakhand, and Dushyant Gautam is the governor of Sikkim.

The appointments will take effect when they assume charge.

Arlekar is a former Goa Assembly Speaker and has also served as Governor of Himachal Pradesh and Bihar.

Mathur is a veteran BJP leader and former Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan.

Ram, a former Lok Sabha MP from Palamu, replaces Hari Babu Kambhampati in Odisha.

Yadav, a former BJP MP from Mahendragarh and former member of the National Commission for Backward Classes, succeeds Thaawarchand Gehlot in Karnataka. She will be the state’s second woman governor after VS Ramadevi.

Bisen, a former Lok Sabha MP from Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh, replaces Lt General (retired) Gurmit Singh in Uttarakhand.

Gautam, a former BJP national general secretary and former Rajya Sabha MP, takes charge in Sikkim.