Padmanabha Acharya

Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya also known as P.B. Acharya is an Indian politician and he was Governor of Nagaland. He was born on 08-10-1931 in Udupi, Karnataka. He is the son of Balkrishna and Radha Acharya. He completed his matriculation from Christian High School, Udupi. He studied in MGM college, Udupi. After graduation, he worked in Mumbai and associated with ABVP and was a member of Mumbai University’s Senate. He also completed LL.B. degree from Mumbai University. He was credited with planning the University of Delhi’s Gyanodaya Express College on wheels to North East India.

Career
Padmanabha Acharya had held various positions in the Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) before becoming governor. He joined to BJP in 1980. He was elected as BJP president of North West Bombay District in 1987 and he became a committee member of the Mumbai BJP. In 1991, he was elected as national executive member of BJP incharge of North East States. He was also All India National secretary of the BJP and incharge of North Eastern States 1995-2002. He was the national executive member with the charge of Kerala and Lakshadweep (2002) and Tamilnadu (2005). Acharya was actively engaged in My Home is India – a project of ABVP for the tribal children from the North East, who were invited by the families of Mumbai City for educational purposes. He was involved in the activities of the Academy for Indian Tribal Dialects at Rani Ma Gaidinilu Bhavan – a publication wing of INFC and published 10 booklets on Tribal national leaders and also publication of tribal proverbs, folk-tales and poems. Mr Acharya was appointed as Governor of Nagaland in 2014. Between 2014-17 he held additional charge as Governor of Assam. He was also the Governor of Tripura (2014-15) and additional charge as Governor of Arunachal Pradesh (2017). He was also given additional charge as the Governor of Manipur in the absence of Najma Heptulla for a few weeks in 2019.