Om Prakash Kohli (born 9 August 1935) is an Indian politician and the former
Governor of Gujarat
The governor of Gujarat Is a nominal head and representative of the president of india In the state of Gujarat. The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years and resides in Raj Bhavan (Gujarat), Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar. ...
from 2014 to 2019.
He was the president of the Delhi unit of
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...
from 1999 to 2000 and had served as a member of the
Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...
from 1994 to 2000. He had been the president of the Delhi University Teacher's Association (DUTA) and of the
ABVP
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) () is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
History
The ABVP, founded in 1948 with the initiative of the RSS ...
. He studied at Ramjas School and Khalsa School, New Delhi. Kohli is a Master of Arts in Hindi from the
University of Delhi
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...
and was a lecturer at
Hansraj College
Hansraj College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi, in Delhi, India. The departments of Hansraj college includes science, liberal arts and commerce.
History
The was founded on 26 July 1948 in memory of the prominent Indian ...
and
Deshbandhu College
Deshbandhu College ( hi, देशबंधु कॉलेज) is a college established in 1952 and affiliated to University of Delhi. Deshbandhu College was established in 1953 by the Ministry of Rehabilitation, as a memorial to freedom fig ...
for over 37 years. He was arrested under MISA during
the Emergency.
From 8 September 2016 to 19 January 2018, he held the additional charge of the office of
Governor of Madhya Pradesh
The governor of Madhya Pradesh is a nominal head and representative of the president of India in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The governor is appointed by the president for a period of five years.
Governors of Madhya Pradesh
See also
* Madh ...
along with
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...
. He is also designated as the Chancellor of Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar.
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Governors of Gujarat
1935 births
People from Delhi
Indians imprisoned during the Emergency (India)
Living people
Delhi University faculty
Rajya Sabha members from Delhi
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Delhi
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