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Raghunanthanlal Bhatia, also known as ‘’’Raghunandan Lal Bhatia’’’, ‘’’R.L. Bhatia’’’ or ‘’’R. L. Bhatia’’’ (born 3 July 1921 in Amritsar, Punjab) has been the governor of the Indian state of Kerala since 23 June 2004.

His parents were Arooramal Bhatia and Lal Devi Bhatia. He graduated from Punjab University and received an LLB from University at Lahore. He was the President of Students Union.

He was member of Local body of Amritsar for nine years.

Mr. Bhatia was first elected to Lok Sabha in 1972 from Amritsar Parliamentary Constituency. He was re elected to Lok Sabha from the same constituency at the 1980, 1985, 1992, 1996 & 1999 elections as a member of the Indian National Congress.

He was the Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India from July 1992 until 1993.

He was the Chairman of the Committee of petitions in Lok Sabha in 1983. He was also a member of the select committee constituted in 1992 for the amendment of the constitution.

Mr. Bhatia has been a member of several consultative committees of Parliament such as Ministry of Home Affairs, Education, Railways, Information & Broadcasting, Law and Justice and Company Affairs.

While a Member of Parliament Mr. Bhatia represented India as a delegate to the United Nations and participated in as a delegate in the 7th NAM summit held in Delhi in March 1983 Common Wealth Heads of Government Meeting in New Delhi in November 1983, Sixth SAARC summit in Colombo in 1991 and the 5th meeting of coordinating countries of the action programme for economic cooperation of non aligned countries held in Delhi in 1986.

He was the President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee 1982-84, General Secretary of AICC 1991.

He was a member of the executive committee of Congress parliamentary party from 1975 to 1977.

Mr. Bhatia also has been the member of the India Council for Cultural Relations from 1983 to 84. He was chairman of the India Bulgaria Friendship Society from 1983 to 1990, and the India GDR (East Germany) friendship Association 1983 to 1990. He was also Co-chairman of All India Peace & Solidarity organization from 1981 to 1983, and the Vice President of Friends of Soviet Union from 1983 to 1984. He visited dozens of other countries around the world as part of his AICC activities.

Personal Interests include Reading And Gardening

He married Sarala Bhatia and had two children, son Ramesh Bhatia and daughter Saroj Munjal.

v • d • e Governors of Indian states
Andhra Pradesh: Narayan Dutt Tiwari Arunachal Pradesh: K. Sankaranarayanan Assam: Ajai Singh Bihar: R.S. Gavai Chhattisgarh: E. S. L. Narasimhan Goa: S.C. Jamir Gujarat: Nawal Kishore Sharma Haryana: A. R. Kidwai Himachal Pradesh: Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje Jammu and Kashmir: S. K. Sinha Jharkhand: Syed Sibtey Razi Karnataka: Rameshwar Thakur	Kerala: R. L. Bhatia Madhya Pradesh: Balram Jakhar Maharashtra: S. M. Krishna Manipur: Shivinder Singh Sidhu Meghalaya: Banwari Lal Joshi Mizoram: MM Lakhera Nagaland: Kateekal Sankaranarayanan Orissa: Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare Punjab: Sunith Francis Rodrigues Rajasthan: S.K. Singh Sikkim: Sudarshan Agarwal Tamil Nadu: Surjit Singh Barnala	Tripura: D. N. Sahay Uttar Pradesh: T. V. Rajeswar Uttarakhand: Banwari Lal Joshi West Bengal: Gopalkrishna Gandhi ANI: Bhopinder Singh Chandigarh: S.F. Rodrigues Dadra and Nagar Haveli: R. K. Varma Delhi: Tejendra Khanna Daman and Diu: Arun Mathur Lakshadweep: B.V. Selvaraj Puducherry: Mukut Mithi