Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje
Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje | |
|---|---|
 V.S.Kokje (left) with Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari | |
| 15th Governor of Himachal Pradesh | |
| In office 8 May 2003 – 19 July 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Suraj Bhan |
| Succeeded by | Prabha Rau |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 September 1939 present-day Madhya Pradesh |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | B. A.LLB |
Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje (born 6 September 1939) is an Indian jurist, who served as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh and currently holds the presidentship of the Vishva Hindu Parishad.[1]
Life and career[]
Kokje was born in Madhya Pradesh on 6 September 1939. He started practising law in 1964 after completing his LLB from Indore. He was appointed a judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court on 28 July 1990. He served as acting Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court for 11 months in 2001 and was designated as senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India in September 2002.[2]
He became Governor of Himachal Pradesh on 8 May 2003, serving in that post until 19 July 2008.[3] He also served as the President of Bharat Vikas Parishad.[4] On the 14th of April, 2018, he succeeded Shri Raghav Reddy as International President of VHP. Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje elected new VHP chief. Shri Pravin Togadia was International Working President and he was succeeded by Shri Alok Kumar Advocate as International Working President of VHP.[1] He served as one of the working defendants in the 2002 Zakia Jafri SC case.
References[]
- ^ a b Who is Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje?, The Indian Express, 14 April 2018.
- ^ "Governor House, Himachal Pradesh, India - Governors of Himachal Pradesh". himachalrajbhavan.nic.in. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
- ^ admin (14 April 2018). "Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje becomes new VHP Chief after defeating Raghav Reddy". www.abplive.in.
- ^ "Bharat Vikas Parishad – Swasth-Samarth-Sanskarit Bharat".
- 1939 births
- Living people
- Marathi people
- 20th-century Indian judges
- Madhya Pradesh politicians
- 20th-century Indian lawyers
- Governors of Himachal Pradesh
- Chief Justices of the Rajasthan High Court
- Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court
- Politicians from Indore
- Vishva Hindu Parishad members
- Madhya Pradesh politician stubs