Lakshman Prasad Acharya (born 3 October 1954) is an Indian politician, serving as the Governor of Assam since 30 July 2024.

His grandfather Late Shri Kanhaiya Prasad worked in Banaras Hindu University (BHU) as a security person.

During the Emergency in India from 1975 to 1976, Acharya became an active member of the broad spectrum of opposition under the leadership of Jai Prakash Narayan.

Owing to his performance in this role, he was appointed the Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Fisheries Development Corporation Limited (UPFDC) by the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh and continued in his role even when Ram Prakash Gupta and Rajnath Singh took over as the state’s Chief minister.

In this role, Acharya worked extensively for the upliftment of the SC/ST population of the state and raised their issues at different platforms for resolution and for the concerned government agencies to take notice.

For the 2014 general elections, since Shri Narendra Modi was the face of the party as the Prime Minister candidate, talks were high that he might contest from the religious capital of the country “Kashi”.

Acharya worked tirelessly as per the directions of the BJP central leadership and Shri Amit Shah – who was in-charge of UP for the 2014 elections.

Being one of the most senior and popularly accepted leaders in the party UP cadre, the BJP fielded Acharya as a candidate for the UP MLC (Member of Legislative Council) 2015 elections from the Legislative Assembly constituency against its only seat; and he was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Upper House on 31 January 2015.

In August 2020, Lakshman Prasad Acharya became the Deputy Leader of the House (Legislative Council) for the BJP.

He stayed in office till 15 February 2023, when he resigned from the Legislative Council to take oath as the Governor of Sikkim.

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