Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan is the Governor of the Indian state of Telangana. He assumed office of the Governor of Andhra Pradesh in December 2009 and Governor of Telangana on 2 June 2014. A retired Indian Police Service officer, he previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau from February 2005 to December 2006. He also been as the Governor of Chhattisgarh from 2007 to 2009. On 19 January 2007, Narasimhan was appointed Governor of Chhattisgarh, and took office on 25 January. On 27 December 2009, he took additional charge as acting Governor of Andhra Pradesh, from Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who resigned after a sex scandal. On 23 January 2010, he was formally appointed to the governorship of Andhra Pradesh. On June 13, 2017 Mr. Narasimhan became longest serving Governor of Andhra Pradesh by surpassing Krishan Kant and overall 7th longest serving governor in India.