Senior BJP leader Kavinder Gupta on Friday (July 18, 2025) took oath as the new Lieutenant Governor (LG) of the Union Territory of Ladakh, four days after President Droupadi Murmu appointed him to the constitutional post.
Gupta was administered the oath of office by the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, Justice Arun Palli, at a ceremony held at Ladakh Raj Niwas in Leh, officials said.
Chief Secretary Pawan Kotwal read the warrant of Gupta's appointment by President Droupadi Murmu.
He is the third Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory and succeeds Brigadier B D Mishra, who took over as Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory on February 19, 2024. Mishra had succeeded R K Mathur, a bureaucrat appointed as the first LG of Ladakh in 2019, after the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was split into two Union Territories.
President Murmu appointed Mr. Gupta as the new Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh on Monday (July 14, 2025).
