Mukut Mithi

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Mukut Mithi (born 1954) is the former Chief Minister of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. He served as an MLA consecutively from 1983 till his appointment as Lt. Governor Of the Union Territory Pondicherry. He held the Post of Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh from January 19, 1999 until August 3, 2003. Much of his political career he was a member of the Indian National Congress and then the Arunachal Congress where later he broke from the Arunachal Congress in 1998 to form the Arunachal Congress-Mithi. He also held The Pradesh Congress Committe President Post and also served as Congress working Committe, Permenent Member Of the Indian National Congress. In July 2006 the President of India appointed Mithi to be the Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry and was sworn in on July 19, 2006. He is the youngest politician to be appointed on a gubernatorial role, which clearly speaks loudly of his credibility in the Congress Party to which he belongs.

Mithi is regarded as an able administrator and a clean politician who most fit the role of a Governor more than a politician.