India, March 5 -- Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Kavinder Gupta resigned on Thursday after serving less than nine months in office. He was appointed the Governor of the Union Territory in July last year.

Gupta has also served as the former deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

Gupta, who started off as a Rashtriya Swayamasevak Sangh worker, was the third LG of Ladakh, succeeding Brigadier BD Mishra, who assumed the role in February 2024.

Brigadier Mishra was appointed after R K Mathur, who was Ladakh's first LG, after Jammu and Kashmir was reorganised in 2019.

At the time of his oath-taking, Kavinder Gupta assured that he would work "unitedly for the development of Ladakh."

On July 17, Gupta, after being appointed as the LG, expres...