Kalraj Mishra

Governor of Rajasthan state of India

Kalraj Mishra (born 1 July 1941) is an Indian politician. In September 2019, he became the Governor of Rajasthan. Briefly in 2019, he was Governor of Himachal Pradesh. He also was a Cabinet Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. He was a member of Parliament from Deoria constituency in Uttar Pradesh from 2014 to 2019.[1]


Kalraj Mishra
22nd Governor of Rajasthan
Assumed office
9 September 2019
PresidentRamnath Kovind
Chief MinisterAshok Gehlot
Preceded byKalyan Singh
19th Governor of Himachal Pradesh
In office
22 July 2019 – 8 September 2019
Preceded byAcharya Devvrat
Succeeded byBandaru Dattatreya
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
In office
26 May 2014 – 31 August 2017
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded byK. H. Muniyappa
Succeeded byGiriraj Singh
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
16 May 2014 – 23 May 2019
Preceded byGorakh Prasad Jaiswal
Succeeded byRamapati Ram Tripathi
ConstituencyDeoria
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
3 April 1978 – 2 April 1984
In office
7 June 2001 – 2 April 2006
In office
3 April 2006 – 21 March 2012
Member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh
In office
6 March 2012 – 31 May 2014
Preceded byVidya Sagar Gupta
Succeeded byAshutosh Tandon
ConstituencyLucknow East
Personal details
Born (1941-07-01) 1 July 1941 (age 82)
Saidpur, United Provinces, British India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)Satyawati Mishra (m. 1963)
Children3
Websitewww.kalrajmishra.com

References change

  1. PTI (1 September 2019). "Kalraj Mishra is new governor of Rajasthan, Arif Mohd Khan gets Kerala | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 1 September 2019.