[3] Mukhi served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands from 2016 to 2017, Minister of Finance, Planning, Excise and Taxation and Higher Education, Government of Delhi in the Swaraj ministry from 1998 to 1998 representing Janakpuri Assembly constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 2015.

Professor Jagdish Mukhi was born on 1 December 1942 in Dajal to a Saraiki Hindu family.

[4][5] Until entering politics he was a professor at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi University's.

[6][5] He held the role of Minister of Higher Education, when he launched Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in the record time of 8 months.

He represented Janak Puri constituency continuously from 1980 and has won seven continuous Vidhan Sabha elections from the same constituency, until losing the 2015 election by 25000 votes to AAP leader Mr. Rajesh Rishi.