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. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Andhra Pradesh (list) |
S. Abdul Nazeer | 20 February 2023 (1 year, 61 days) |
[1] | ||
Arunachal Pradesh (list) |
Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik | 16 February 2023 (1 year, 65 days) |
[2] | ||
Assam (list) |
Gulab Chand Kataria | 22 February 2023 (1 year, 59 days) |
[3] | ||
Bihar (list) |
Rajendra Arlekar | 18 February 2023 (1 year, 63 days) |
[4] Archived 24 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine | ||
Chhattisgarh (list) |
Biswabhusan Harichandan | 22 February 2023 (1 year, 59 days) |
[5][permanent dead link] | ||
Goa (list) |
P. S. Sreedharan Pillai | 15 July 2021 (2 years, 281 days) |
[6] Archived 20 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine | ||
Gujarat (list) |
Acharya Devvrat | 22 July 2019 (4 years, 274 days) |
[7] | [3] | |
Haryana (list) |
Bandaru Dattatreya | 15 July 2021 (2 years, 281 days) |
[8] | ||
Himachal Pradesh (list) |
Shiv Pratap Shukla | 18 February 2023 (1 year, 63 days) |
[9] | ||
Jharkhand (list) |
C. P. Radhakrishnan | 18 February 2023 (1 year, 63 days) |
[10] | [4] | |
Karnataka (list) |
Thawar Chand Gehlot | 11 July 2021 (2 years, 285 days) |
[11] | [5] | |
Kerala (list) |
Arif Mohammad Khan | 6 September 2019 (4 years, 228 days) |
[12] | [6] | |
Madhya Pradesh (list) |
Mangubhai C. Patel | 8 July 2021 (2 years, 288 days) |
[13] Archived 28 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine | [7] | |
Maharashtra (list) |
Ramesh Bais | 18 February 2023 (1 year, 63 days) |
[14] | [8] | |
Manipur (list) |
Anusuiya Uikey | 22 February 2023 (1 year, 59 days) |
[15] | ||
Meghalaya (list) |
Phagu Chauhan | 18 February 2023 (1 year, 63 days) |
[16] | ||
Mizoram (list) |
Kambhampati Hari Babu | 6 November 2021 (2 years, 167 days) |
[17] Archived 22 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine | ||
Nagaland (list) |
La. Ganesan | 20 February 2023 (1 year, 61 days) |
[18] | ||
Odisha (list) |
Raghubar Das | 31 October 2023 (173 days) |
[19] | ||
Punjab (list) |
Banwarilal Purohit | 31 August 2021 (2 years, 234 days) |
[20] | ||
Rajasthan (list) |
Kalraj Mishra | 9 September 2019 (4 years, 225 days) |
[21] | [9] | |
Sikkim (list) |
Lakshman Acharya | 16 February 2023 (1 year, 65 days) |
[22] | ||
Tamil Nadu (list) |
R. N. Ravi | 18 September 2021 (2 years, 216 days) |
[23] | ||
Telangana (list) |
C. P. Radhakrishnan (additional charge) | 19 March 2024 (33 days) |
[24] | [10] | |
Tripura (list) |
Indrasena Reddy | 26 October 2023 (178 days) |
[25] | ||
Uttar Pradesh (list) |
Anandiben Patel | 29 July 2019 (4 years, 267 days) |
[26] | [11] | |
Uttarakhand (list) |
Gurmit Singh | 15 September 2021 (2 years, 219 days) |
[27] | [12] | |
West Bengal (list) |
C. V. Ananda Bose | 23 November 2022 (1 year, 150 days) |
[28] | [13] |