Kavinder Gupta has become the third Lt. Governor of Ladakh in succession to quit the office without completing the term of five years in office.
Gupta tendered his resignation as LG after occupying the post only for 229 days. He took oath as LG on 18 July 2025.
None of the three LGs of Ladakh has completed his complete term after the cold desert region was seperated from J&K in 2019 and created a separate union territory.
RK Mathur, a former bureaucrat, who took oath as the first LG ofcLadakh on 31 October 2019, quit the office in 3 years and 107 days.
His successor, Brigadier BD Mishra (Retd) stepped into the office on 16 February 2023 and tendered resignation within 2 years and 151 days.
Kavinder Gupta’s tenure was so far shortest in the office that lasted 229 days.
Gupta was a former Deputy Chief Minister and Speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.
His tenure as LG witnessed heightened unrest in the otherwise peaceful region, where civil society groups and organisations such as the Leh Apex Body and Kargil Democratic Alliance were protesting for statehood, Sixth Schedule protections, and job reservations for locals.
During his tenure, Ladakh saw violent protests in which four youths lost their lives in police firing in September 2025.