Shiv Pratap Shukla sworn in as Telangana''s fifth Governor

Shiv Pratap Shukla, who earlier served as the Himachal Pradesh Governor, was accorded a warm welcome by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.

Updated on: Mar 11, 2026, 22:57:01 IST

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Shiv Pratap Shukla was sworn in as the fifth Governor of Telangana on Wednesday.

The newly appointed Telangana Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla at the swearing-in ceremony at Lok Bhavan, Hyderabad, on Wednesday (ANI)

Telangana High Court Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh administered the oath of office to Shukla at Lok Bhavan here. Shukla took oath in Telugu.

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and his Cabinet colleagues were among those who attended the swearing-in ceremony.

Shukla, who earlier served as the Himachal Pradesh Governor, was accorded a warm welcome on his arrival here on Tuesday by Reddy.

A resident of Rudrapur in the Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, Shukla started his political journey from RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). He joined the BJP in 1983 and was elected as MLA in 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1996.

He was elected to Rajya Sabha in 2016. Shukla previously served as Union Minister of State for Finance.

He succeeds Jishnu Dev Varma.

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