Kambhampati Hari Babu
Governor of Odisha
Dr. Kambhampati Hari Babu (born 15 June 1953) is an Indian politician currently serving as the 28th Governor of Odisha since 2025. He is the first individual from the bifurcated state of Andhra Pradesh and the first Telugu person to serve as the Governor of Mizoram. He served as a Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha, representing the Visakhapatnam Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh. He won the 2014 Indian general election as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He previously served as the President of Bharatiya Janata Party for Andhra Pradesh from 2014 to 2018 and first president for bifurcated Andhra Pradesh.
Early life
Hari Babu was born in Thimmasamudram of Prakasam district. He moved to Visakhapatnam to pursue a B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication engineering at Andhra University, where he also completed his M.Tech. and PhD. He later joined Andhra University as a faculty member and voluntarily retired as an associate professor in 1993 to actively engage in politics.
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