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) |
S. Abdul Nazeer | 20 February 2023 (1 year, 103 days) |
[1] | ||
Arunachal Pradesh ( list) |
Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik | 16 February 2023 (1 year, 107 days) |
[2] | ||
Assam ( list) |
Gulab Chand Kataria | 22 February 2023 (1 year, 101 days) |
[3] | ||
Bihar ( list) |
Rajendra Arlekar | 18 February 2023 (1 year, 105 days) |
[4] Archived 24 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine | ||
Chhattisgarh ( list) |
Biswabhusan Harichandan | 22 February 2023 (1 year, 101 days) |
[5][ permanent dead link] | ||
Goa ( list) |
P. S. Sreedharan Pillai | 15 July 2021 (2 years, 323 days) |
[6] Archived 20 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine | ||
Gujarat ( list) |
Acharya Devvrat | 22 July 2019 (4 years, 316 days) |
[7] | [3] | |
Haryana ( list) |
Bandaru Dattatreya | 15 July 2021 (2 years, 323 days) |
[8] | ||
Himachal Pradesh ( list) |
Shiv Pratap Shukla | 18 February 2023 (1 year, 105 days) |
[9] | ||
Jharkhand ( list) |
C. P. Radhakrishnan | 18 February 2023 (1 year, 105 days) |
[10] | [4] | |
Karnataka ( list) |
Thawar Chand Gehlot | 11 July 2021 (2 years, 327 days) |
[11] | [5] | |
Kerala ( list) |
Arif Mohammad Khan | 6 September 2019 (4 years, 270 days) |
[12] | [6] | |
Madhya Pradesh ( list) |
Mangubhai C. Patel | 8 July 2021 (2 years, 330 days) |
[13] Archived 28 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine | [7] | |
Maharashtra ( list) |
Ramesh Bais | 18 February 2023 (1 year, 105 days) |
[14] | [8] | |
Manipur ( list) |
Anusuiya Uikey | 22 February 2023 (1 year, 101 days) |
[15] | ||
Meghalaya ( list) |
Phagu Chauhan | 18 February 2023 (1 year, 105 days) |
[16] | ||
Mizoram ( list) |
Kambhampati Hari Babu | 6 November 2021 (2 years, 209 days) |
[17] Archived 22 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine | ||
Nagaland ( list) |
La. Ganesan | 20 February 2023 (1 year, 103 days) |
[18] | ||
Odisha ( list) |
Raghubar Das | 31 October 2023 (215 days) |
[19] | ||
Punjab ( list) |
Banwarilal Purohit | 31 August 2021 (2 years, 276 days) |
[20] | ||
Rajasthan ( list) |
Kalraj Mishra | 9 September 2019 (4 years, 267 days) |
[21] | [9] | |
Sikkim ( list) |
Lakshman Acharya | 16 February 2023 (1 year, 107 days) |
[22] | ||
Tamil Nadu ( list) |
R. N. Ravi | 18 September 2021 (2 years, 258 days) |
[23] | ||
Telangana ( list) |
C. P. Radhakrishnan (additional charge) | 19 March 2024 (75 days) |
[24] | [10] | |
Tripura ( list) |
N. Indrasena Reddy | 26 October 2023 (220 days) |
[25] | ||
Uttar Pradesh ( list) |
Anandiben Patel | 29 July 2019 (4 years, 309 days) |
[26] | [11] | |
Uttarakhand ( list) |
Gurmit Singh | 15 September 2021 (2 years, 261 days) |
[27] | [12] | |
West Bengal ( list) |
C. V. Ananda Bose | 23 November 2022 (1 year, 192 days) |
[28] | [13] |