Ganga Prasad  Ganga Prasad Chaurasia is an Indian politician who is currently the Governor of the state of Sikkim and former Governor of Meghalaya. He was member of Bihar legislative council and served as leader of opposition during the RJD regime. He also held the post of leader of Bihar legislative council during the NDA rule in Bihar. He got associated with Jan Sangh and remained associated to the same ideology till date. He is an ardent follower of Arya Samaj and served as Pradhan (Head) of the Bihar Arya Samaj Pratinidhi Sabha unit. He is popularly known as 'Ganga Babu' in the political circle. Born in a Business family his father Late Mundar Sah (Aged 109 yrs) was a successful entrepreneur who coordinated with people from the states of east India and Bangladesh for his business mostly thorough correspondence. Sah was socially very active. He became the Mukhiya (Chief) of his location (Khajpura) for 2 terms, which is now part of the Patna Municipal Corporation. Sri Mundar Sah realized the importance of politics in the state of Bihar and thus pushed Mr. Prasad towards politics and could match the ideology with that of Jan Sangh. Prasad was the chairman of Dadhichi Dehdaan Samiti, Bihar chapter, an organisation for promoting voluntary organ donation. His eldest son Arun Kumar is a businessman and his 2nd son Sanjeev Chaurasia, is a BJP MLA from Digha constituency in Patna district. His 3rd son Deepak Chaurasia was ward councilor from ward no.2 of Patna Municipal corporation for three terms but later that ward got reserved as women seat, then his wife Madhu Chaurasia stood and got elected as the councilor after Mr. Prasad's insistence. His Son in law Sri Umesh Kumar, IPS (Karnataka cadre), is ADGP serving as Secretary in Department of Home, Karnataka. His daughter is a businesswoman. And his youngest son is into IT. Prasad was elected to the Legislative Council of Bihar in 1994 and had been a member for 18 years since then. On 30 September 2017, Prasad was appointed by President Ram Nath Kovind as the new Governor of Meghalaya. On 26 August 2018, Prasad was sworn in as the 16th Governor of Sikkim, replacing Shriniwas Dadasaheb Patil. 1966 - Inspired by the ideology of Shri Shyama Pd.