In India, an advocate general is a legal advisor to a state government.[1] The post was created by the Constitution of India (vide Article 165) and corresponds to that of Attorney General for India at the union government level. The governor of each state shall appoint a person who is qualified to be appointed as judge of the High Court as the advocate general.

List of advocates general in states

State Advocate General
Andhra Pradesh Subrahmanyam Sriram[2]
Arunachal Pradesh Indraneel Chaudhary
Assam Devajit Lon Saikia[3]
Bihar Prashant Kumar Shahi[4]
Chhattisgarh Satish Chandra Verma[5]
Goa Devidas Pangam[6]
Gujarat Kamal Trivedi[7]
Haryana B. R. Mahajan[8]
Himachal Pradesh Ashok Sharma[9]
Jammu & Kashmir D. C. Raina[10]
Jharkhand Rajiv Ranjan[11]
Karnataka Shashi Kiran Shetty[12]
Kerala K. Gopalakrishna Kurup[13]
Madhya Pradesh Prashant Singh[14]
Maharashtra Dr. Birendra Saraf [15]
Manipur Naorem Kumarjit Singh
Meghalaya Amit Kumar[16]
Mizoram Diganta Das
Nagaland Vikramjit Banerjee[17]
Odisha Ashok Parija[18]
Punjab
Rajasthan Shri M.S. Singhvi
Sikkim Vivek Kohli[19]
Tamil Nadu P. S. Raman[20]
Telangana A. Sudarshan Reddy
Tripura Siddhartha Shankar Dey
Uttar Pradesh Ajay Kumar Mishra
Uttarakhand S. N. Babulkar[21]
West Bengal kishor Dutta[22]

See also

References

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  18. ^ "Ashok Parija appointed Advocate General for Odisha". Bar and Bench. 25 June 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  19. ^ "Vivek Kohli appointed Senior Advocate by Sikkim High Court [Read Notification]". barandbench.com. 19 December 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  20. ^ "AG assures CCTVs inside booths, strongrooms for Tamil Nadu local body elections in newly-carved dists". DTNext.in. 2 October 2021. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  21. ^ "Uttarakhand HC lifts ban on Chardham Yatra, limits number of devotees visiting shrines". theprint.in. 16 September 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  22. ^ Bench, Bar &. "Who is the new West Bengal Advocate General? A profile of SN Mookherjee". Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
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