Several governors, lieutenant governors and administrators pose with the President, Vice President and Prime Minister of India on the eve of ‘2019 Governors Conference’, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on November 2019

In the Republic 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 act upon his or her own discretion, such as the ability 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]

Current Indian governors

State (past governors)	Name[2]	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Appointed by	Ref.
Andhra Pradesh (list)	Biswabhusan Harichandan		24 July 2019 (2 years, 4 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[3]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	B. D. Mishra		3 October 2017 (3 years, 298 days)		[4]
Assam (list)	Jagdish Mukhi		10 October 2017 (3 years, 291 days)		[5]
Bihar (list)	Phagu Chauhan		29 July 2019 (1 year, 364 days)		[6]
Chhattisgarh (list)	Anusuiya Uikey		29 July 2019 (1 year, 364 days)		[7]
Goa (list)	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai		15 July 2021 (13 days)
Gujarat (list)	Acharya Devvrat		22 July 2019 (2 years, 6 days)		[8]
Haryana (list)	Bandaru Dattatreya		15 July 2021 (13 days)
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar		13 July 2021 (15 days)
Jharkhand (list)	Ramesh Bais		14 July 2021 (14 days)
Karnataka (list)	Thawarchand Gehlot		11 July 2021 (17 days)
Kerala (list)	Arif Mohammad Khan		6 September 2019 (1 year, 325 days)		[9]
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Mangubhai C. Patel		8 July 2021 (20 days)
Maharashtra (list)	Bhagat Singh Koshyari		5 September 2019 (1 year, 326 days)		[10]
Manipur (list)	Najma Heptulla		21 August 2016 (4 years, 341 days)	Pranab Mukherjee	[11]
Meghalaya (list)	Satya Pal Malik		19 August 2020 (343 days)	Ram Nath Kovind
Mizoram (list)	Kambhampati Hari Babu		19 July 2021 (9 days)		[12]
Nagaland (list)	R. N. Ravi		1 August 2019 (1 year, 361 days)		[13]
Odisha (list)	Ganeshi Lal		29 May 2018 (3 years, 60 days)		[14]
Punjab (list)	V. P. Singh Badnore		22 August 2016 (4 years, 340 days)	Pranab Mukherjee	[15]
Rajasthan (list)	Kalraj Mishra		9 September 2019 (1 year, 322 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[16]
Sikkim (list)	Ganga Prasad		26 August 2018 (2 years, 336 days)		[17]
Tamil Nadu (list)	Banwarilal Purohit		6 October 2017 (3 years, 295 days)		[18]
Telangana (list)	Tamilisai Soundararajan		8 September 2019 (1 year, 323 days)		[19]
Tripura (list)	Satyadev Narayan Arya		14 July 2021 (14 days)
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Anandiben Patel		29 July 2019 (1 year, 364 days)		[20]
Uttarakhand (list)	Baby Rani Maurya		26 August 2018 (2 years, 336 days)		[21]
West Bengal (list)	Jagdeep Dhankhar		30 July 2019 (1 year, 363 days)		[22]