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Om Prakash Kohli (9 August 1935 – 20 February 2023) was an Indian politician who was the
Governor of Gujarat The governor of Gujarat is the nominal head of the Indian state of Gujarat. The governor is appointed by the president of India and resides in Raj Bhavan, Gandhinagar, Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar. Acharya Devvrat took charge as the 24th governo ...
from 2014 to 2019. He was the president of the Delhi unit of
Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...
from 1999 to 2000 and had served as a member of the
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from 1994 to 2000. He had been the president of the Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) and of the ABVP. He studied at Ramjas School and Khalsa School, New Delhi. Kohli was a Master of Arts in Hindi from the
University of Delhi The Delhi University (DU, ISO 15919, ISO: ), also and officially known as the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate research university, research Central university (India), central university located in Delhi, India. It ...
and a lecturer at Hansraj College and Deshbandhu College for over 37 years. He was arrested under MISA during the Emergency. From 8 September 2016 to 19 January 2018, he held the additional charge of the office of
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along with
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. He was also designated as the Chancellor of Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar. Kohli had a son (Vishu Kohli) and two daughters (Ritu Kohli and Suparna Khurana). He died on 20 February 2023, at the age of 87.


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