Lieutenant General Bakshi Krishan Nath Chhibber (born 10 February 1936) is an Indian military veteran who has also served as Administrator of Chandigarh and Governor of Punjab from 18 September 1994 to 27 November 1999.
[3] Bakshi Krishan Nath Chhibber was born on 10 February 1936 in the Burewala Punjab Province of British India (present day Punjab, Pakistan) into the Chhibber clan of Mohyal Brahmins.
He was married to Rama Chhibber who died in January 2018 at the age of 78.
[4] Chhibber graduated from Indian Military Academy, Dehradun in December 1956 and later joined the Gorkha Rifles.
[5] Chhibber had also contested the 2009 Indian general election from Amritsar representing Bahujan Samaj Party but lost to Bharatiya Janata Party's cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu.