Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare (born December 10, 1928 in Mumbai) is the Governor of Orissa. He is a senior Indian National Congress leader from Maharashtra, and a former Rajya Sabha member from 1980 to 1994 for three terms ^[1].

He practices as Senior Advocate of Supreme Court of India and was President of Supreme Court Bar Association for two terms.^[2]

He was appointed Governor of Orissa on August 19, 2007^[3] and sworn in on August 21.^[4]

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• news article on being appointed as Governor of Orissa

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