Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa

Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa (born 1944) was the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in northeast India, served August 2016. A retired Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1968 batch, he ended his career as Chief Secretary of Assam.

Education He did M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Earlier Rajkhowa finished his schooling from Jorhat Government High School, Intermediate in Arts from J.B. College, Jorhat, and B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from Cotton College, Guwahati.

Writings He was appointed the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh on 12 May 2015.

While on deputation to the National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC), New Delhi, a Government of India Public Sector Enterprise, he guided and supervised the publication of the "Do's & Don't's" and was also the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the journal titled "Sachetak". Mr Rajkhowa also authored a book, Central Vigilance Mechanism with special reference to P.S.E's, besides contributing a number of articles to leading newspapers.

The major work of Mr Rajkhowa, which earned him accolade from historians, scholars, intellectuals, military experts and the general readers, is Generalissimo Chilarai and his times, a historical biography on the legendary Koch king Chilarai.

Rajkhowa's other influential work was his second historical biography called Sankardeva: His life preachings & practices. The book's topic was Srimanta Sankardeva, a cultural and religious figure of Assamese history.

Arunachal Pradesh President's Rule and his removal J.P. Rajkhowa was removed from the office of Governor in 2016 after the Supreme Court overturned his decisions in the Arunachal Pradesh political crisis as it saw his use of gubernatorial discretion as a Constitutional red flag. He had advanced the Assembly session from January to 16 December 2015 without the advice of Council of Ministers and set the removal of Speaker Nabam Rebia as the first agenda item. These actions were taken when a group of Congress MLAs led by Kalikho Pul had withdrawn support from Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and faced disqualification by the Speaker. The Speaker Nabam Rebia ousted 14 rebels, only for the Deputy Speaker to overturn it.