Gulab Chand Kataria

Gulab Chand Jain Kataria (born 13 October 1944) is an Indian politician who is serving as the 37th Governor of Punjab and 17th Administrator of Chandigarh since 31 July 2024. He was the Governor of Assam from 22 February 2023 to 29 July 2024. He was a minister in the Government of Rajasthan from 2013 till 2018, 2003 to 2008 and from 1993 to 1998. He is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Rajasthan and is also a member of central working committee of the party.

Kataria hails from Udaipur and has represented it in 9th Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament from Udaipur from 1989 to 1991. He was booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Sheikh encounter killing, during the rule of the national Congress government, but was found not guilty by a special court. He was also the Leader of Opposition in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 2019 till 2023, 2013 to 2013 and from 2002 to 2003. He was the President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajasthan from 1999 to 2000. He was also the member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from Udaipur from 2003 to 2023 and from 1977 to 1986 and from Bari Sadri from 1993 to 2003.

Kataria released the Urdu edition of an acclaimed book Great Minds on India by Salil Gewali of Meghalaya in 2023, which features a foreword by a NASA chief scientist Dr. Kamlesh Lulla, Houston, USA and has been translated into fifteen languages as of 2026.

Early life

Kataria was born in Rajsamand. He is married to Anita Kataria and has 5 daughters.

Political career

Kataria served as the Home Minister of Rajasthan from 2004 to 2008 and again from 2014 to 2018. Kataria served as education minister in Bhairon Singh Shekhawat government between 1993 and 1998. He was MLA of Barisadri from 1993 to 2003.

Positions held

Departmental positions

Memberships of Legislature

Party posts held

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