In the Republic of India, according to the Article 154 of Constitution of India, a governor is the constitutional head of each of the twenty-eight states. The governor is appointed by the president of India for a term of five years, and holds office at the president's pleasure.
The governor is de jure head of the state government; all its executive actions are taken in the governor's name. However, the governor must act on the advice of the popularly elected council of ministers, headed by the chief minister, which thus holds de facto executive authority at the state-level. The Constitution of India also empowers the governor to appoint or dismiss a ministry, recommend president's rule, or reserve bills for the president's assent. [1]
The following list consists of the list of the current governors of all the Indian states. [2]
State (past governors) |
Name | Portrait | Took office (tenure length) |
Profile link | Ref. |
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Andhra Pradesh ( list) |
Syed Abdul Nazeer |
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20 February 2023 (1 year, 115 days) |
[1] | |
Arunachal Pradesh ( list) |
Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik |
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16 February 2023 (1 year, 119 days) |
[2] | |
Assam ( list) |
Gulab Chand Kataria |
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22 February 2023 (1 year, 113 days) |
[3] | |
Bihar ( list) |
Rajendra Arlekar |
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18 February 2023 (1 year, 117 days) |
[4] Archived 24 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine | |
Chhattisgarh ( list) |
Biswabhusan Harichandan |
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22 February 2023 (1 year, 113 days) |
[5][ permanent dead link] | |
Goa ( list) |
P. S. Sreedharan Pillai |
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15 July 2021 (2 years, 335 days) |
[6] Archived 20 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine | |
Gujarat ( list) |
Acharya Devvrat |
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22 July 2019 (4 years, 328 days) |
[7] | [3] |
Haryana ( list) |
Bandaru Dattatreya |
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15 July 2021 (2 years, 335 days) |
[8] | |
Himachal Pradesh ( list) |
Shiv Pratap Shukla |
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18 February 2023 (1 year, 117 days) |
[9] | |
Jharkhand ( list) |
C. P. Radhakrishnan |
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18 February 2023 (1 year, 117 days) |
[10] | [4] |
Karnataka ( list) |
Thawar Chand Gehlot |
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11 July 2021 (2 years, 339 days) |
[11] | [5] |
Kerala ( list) |
Arif Mohammad Khan |
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6 September 2019 (4 years, 282 days) |
[12] | [6] |
Madhya Pradesh ( list) |
Mangubhai C. Patel |
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8 July 2021 (2 years, 342 days) |
[13] Archived 28 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine | [7] |
Maharashtra ( list) |
Ramesh Bais |
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18 February 2023 (1 year, 117 days) |
[14] | [8] |
Manipur ( list) |
Anusuiya Uikey |
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22 February 2023 (1 year, 113 days) |
[15] | |
Meghalaya ( list) |
Phagu Chauhan |
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18 February 2023 (1 year, 117 days) |
[16] | |
Mizoram ( list) |
Kambhampati Hari Babu |
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6 November 2021 (2 years, 221 days) |
[17] Archived 22 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine | |
Nagaland ( list) |
La. Ganesan |
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20 February 2023 (1 year, 115 days) |
[18] | |
Odisha ( list) |
Raghubar Das |
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31 October 2023 (227 days) |
[19] | |
Punjab ( list) |
Banwarilal Purohit |
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31 August 2021 (2 years, 288 days) |
[20] | |
Rajasthan ( list) |
Kalraj Mishra |
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9 September 2019 (4 years, 279 days) |
[21] | [9] |
Sikkim ( list) |
Lakshman Acharya |
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16 February 2023 (1 year, 119 days) |
[22] | |
Tamil Nadu ( list) |
R. N. Ravi |
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18 September 2021 (2 years, 270 days) |
[23] | |
Telangana ( list) |
C. P. Radhakrishnan (additional charge) |
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19 March 2024 (87 days) |
[24] | [10] |
Tripura ( list) |
N. Indrasena Reddy |
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26 October 2023 (232 days) |
[25] | |
Uttar Pradesh ( list) |
Anandiben Patel |
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29 July 2019 (4 years, 321 days) |
[26] | [11] |
Uttarakhand ( list) |
Gurmit Singh |
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15 September 2021 (2 years, 273 days) |
[27] | [12] |
West Bengal ( list) |
C. V. Ananda Bose |
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23 November 2022 (1 year, 204 days) |
[28] | [13] |