Professor-Turned BJP Veteran Asim Kumar Ghosh Appointed 19th Governor of Haryana
Asim Kumar Ghosh, the 19th Governor of Haryana—born on March 12, 1944, in Howrah, British India—is an Indian educationist and politician. Prior to this role, he served as the President of the West Bengal BJP from 1999 to 2002. Ghosh received his early education at the Vivekananda Institute in Howrah. He subsequently earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Political Science from Vidyasagar College and the University of Calcutta, respectively, and worked as a Professor of Political Science starting in 1966. Asim Kumar Ghosh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1991. According to Sourav Sikdar—son of Tapan Sikdar—it was Tapan Sikdar who introduced Ghosh to politics. He became the party’s State Secretary in 1996 and later the State Vice-President in 1998. The then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had recommended his appointment as the party’s State President. After completing his tenure, he served as an observer for the Tripura BJP unit from 2003 to 2005. He was a member of the BJP’s National Executive from 2002 to 2006. On July 14, 2025, President Droupadi Murmu appointed him as the Governor of Haryana; he is the third Bengali to hold this office, following Birendra Narayan Chakravarty and Hari Anand Barari.