Leh, Jul 18: Former Deputy Chief Minister of erstwhile J&K state, Kavinder Gupta on Friday took oath as the new Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh.
He was appointed as the Ladakh LG by President Droupadi Murmu on Monday.
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.
Gupta becomes the third Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory and succeeds Brigadier B D Mishra, who took over as LG 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 bifurcated into two Union Territories.
