** Om Prakash Mathur** (born 2 January 1952) is an Indian politician currently serving as the Governor of Sikkim. He is a former member of Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan state in India and is a senior politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. Initially, he was groomed by Bhairon Singh Shekhawat but later he became a leader on his own in BJP. He was a Pracharak with the RSS and later General Secretary- in charge of the Gujarat BJP. On 29 May 2016, he was nominated as one of the BJP candidates for the biennial elections of the Rajya Sabha slated to be held on 11 June. He will contest from Rajasthan. He is from the village Bedal, near Falna in Bali tehsil of Pali district in Rajasthan. Born in 1952, he studied B.A. at Rajasthan University, Jaipur. President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Om Prakash Mathur as governor of Sikkim on 27 July 2024.