# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/banwarilal-purohit
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:51:02.824Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/banwarilal-purohit"
name: "Banwarilal Purohit"
slug: "banwarilal-purohit"
description: "Banwarilal Bhagwandas Purohit is an Indian politician. He was the former Governor of Punjab, India and Administrator of Chandigarh from September 2021 to July 2024, Governor of Tamil Nadu from 2017 to 2021, and Governor of Assam from 2016 to 2017. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a Member of Parliament from the Nagpur three times, twice as an Indian National Congress member, once as a BJP member."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Governor_of_Assam_Banwarilal_Purohit.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940-04-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.35984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump