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. Over the years, the exercise of these discretionary powers have given rise to conflict between the elected chief minister and the union government–appointed governor.[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 (146 days) |
[1] | |
Arunachal Pradesh (list) |
Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik | ![]() |
16 February 2023 (150 days) |
[2] | |
Assam (list) |
Gulab Chand Kataria | ![]() |
22 February 2023 (144 days) |
[3] | |
Bihar (list) |
Rajendra Arlekar | ![]() |
18 February 2023 (148 days) |
[4] | |
Chhattisgarh (list) |
Biswabhusan Harichandan | ![]() |
22 February 2023 (144 days) |
[5] | |
Goa (list) |
P. S. Sreedharan Pillai | ![]() |
15 July 2021 (2 years, 1 day) |
[6] | |
Gujarat (list) |
Acharya Devvrat | ![]() |
22 July 2019 (3 years, 359 days) |
[7] | [3] |
Haryana (list) |
Bandaru Dattatreya | ![]() |
15 July 2021 (2 years, 1 day) |
[8] | |
Himachal Pradesh (list) |
Shiv Pratap Shukla | ![]() |
18 February 2023 (148 days) |
[9] | |
Jharkhand (list) |
C. P. Radhakrishnan | ![]() |
18 February 2023 (148 days) |
[10] | [4] |
Karnataka (list) |
Thawar Chand Gehlot | ![]() |
11 July 2021 (2 years, 5 days) |
[11] | [5] |
Kerala (list) |
Arif Mohammad Khan | ![]() |
6 September 2019 (3 years, 313 days) |
[12] | [6] |
Madhya Pradesh (list) |
Mangubhai C. Patel | ![]() |
8 July 2021 (2 years, 8 days) |
[13] | [7] |
Maharashtra (list) |
Ramesh Bais | ![]() |
18 February 2023 (148 days) |
[14] | [8] |
Manipur (list) |
Anusuiya Uikey | ![]() |
22 February 2023 (144 days) |
[15] | |
Meghalaya (list) |
Phagu Chauhan | ![]() |
18 February 2023 (148 days) |
[16] | |
Mizoram (list) |
Kambhampati Hari Babu | ![]() |
19 July 2021 (1 year, 362 days) |
[17] | [9] |
Nagaland (list) |
La. Ganesan | ![]() |
20 February 2023 (146 days) |
[18] | |
Odisha (list) |
Ganeshi Lal | ![]() |
29 May 2018 (5 years, 48 days) |
[19] | [10] |
Punjab (list) |
Banwarilal Purohit | ![]() |
31 August 2021 (1 year, 319 days) |
[20] | |
Rajasthan (list) |
Kalraj Mishra | ![]() |
9 September 2019 (3 years, 310 days) |
[21] | [11] |
Sikkim (list) |
Lakshman Acharya | ![]() |
16 February 2023 (150 days) |
[22] | |
Tamil Nadu (list) |
R. N. Ravi | ![]() |
18 September 2021 (1 year, 301 days) |
[23] | |
Telangana (list) |
Tamilisai Soundararajan | ![]() |
8 September 2019 (3 years, 311 days) |
[24] | [12] |
Tripura (list) |
Satyadev Narayan Arya | 14 July 2021 (2 years, 2 days) |
[25] | ||
Uttar Pradesh (list) |
Anandiben Patel | ![]() |
29 July 2019 (3 years, 352 days) |
[26] | [13] |
Uttarakhand (list) |
Gurmit Singh | ![]() |
15 September 2021 (1 year, 304 days) |
[27] | [14] |
West Bengal (list) |
C. V. Ananda Bose | ![]() |
23 November 2022 (235 days) |
[28] | [15] |