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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje
|image = The Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Justice (Retd.) Shri V.S.Kokje called on the Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari in New Delhi on April 23, 2008.jpg
|caption = V.S.Kokje (left) with Vice President, Mohammad Hamid Ansari
|office = [[List of Governors of Himachal Pradesh|15th Governor of Himachal Pradesh]]
|term_start = 8 May 2003
|term_end = 19 July 2008
|predecessor = [[Suraj Bhan]]
|successor= [[Prabha Rau]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1939|09|06}}
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|birth_place = present-day [[Madhya Pradesh]]
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|education= [[B. A.]][[LLB]]
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'''Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje''' (born 6 September 1939) is an Indian jurist, who served as the [[Governor of Himachal Pradesh]] and currently holds the presidentship of the [[Vishva Hindu Parishad]].<ref name=IE>[http://indianexpress.com/article/who-is/who-is-vishnu-sadashiv-kokje-vhp-president-pravin-togadia-hindutva-rss-5137645/ Who is Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje?], The Indian Express, 14 April 2018.</ref>

== Life and career ==

Kokje was born in [[Madhya Pradesh]] on 6 September 1939. He started practising law in 1964 after completing his LLB from [[Indore]]. He was appointed a judge of [[Madhya Pradesh High Court]] on 28 July 1990. He served as acting Chief Justice of [[Rajasthan High Court]] for 11 months in 2001 and was designated as senior advocate of the [[Supreme Court of India]] in September 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://himachalrajbhavan.nic.in/past_governors.html|title=Governor House, Himachal Pradesh, India - Governors of Himachal Pradesh|website=himachalrajbhavan.nic.in|access-date=2018-04-14}}</ref>

He became [[Governor of Himachal Pradesh]] on 8 May 2003, serving in that post until 19 July 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abplive.in/videos/vishnu-sadashiv-kokje-becomes-new-vhp-chief-after-defeating-raghav-reddy-683540|title=Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje becomes new VHP Chief after defeating Raghav Reddy|first=|last=admin|date=14 April 2018|website=www.abplive.in}}</ref> He also served as the President of Bharat Vikas Parishad.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bvpindia.com/|title=Bharat Vikas Parishad – Swasth-Samarth-Sanskarit Bharat|publisher=}}</ref> On the 14th of April, 2018, he succeeded Shri Raghav Reddy as International President of VHP. Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje elected new VHP chief. Shri Pravin Togadia was International Working President and he was succeeded by Shri Alok Kumar Advocate as International Working President of VHP.<ref name=IE/> He served as one of the working defendants in the 2002 Zakia Jafri SC case.

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