Several governors, lieutenant governors and administrators pose with the Vice President of India on the eve of ‘2021 Governors Conference’, at Vice President's House, in New Delhi in November 2021.

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]

Current governors of all Indian states

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 (66 days)	[1]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik		16 February 2023 (70 days)	[2]
Assam (list)	Gulab Chand Kataria		22 February 2023 (64 days)	[3]
Bihar (list)	Rajendra Arlekar		18 February 2023 (68 days)	[4]
Chhattisgarh (list)	Biswabhusan Harichandan		22 February 2023 (64 days)	[5]
Goa (list)	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai		15 July 2021 (1 year, 286 days)	[6]
Gujarat (list)	Acharya Devvrat		22 July 2019 (3 years, 279 days)	[7]	[3]
Haryana (list)	Bandaru Dattatreya		15 July 2021 (1 year, 286 days)	[8]
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Shiv Pratap Shukla		18 February 2023 (68 days)	[9]
Jharkhand (list)	C. P. Radhakrishnan		18 February 2023 (68 days)	[10]	[4]
Karnataka (list)	Thawar Chand Gehlot		11 July 2021 (1 year, 290 days)	[11]	[5]
Kerala (list)	Arif Mohammad Khan		6 September 2019 (3 years, 233 days)	[12]	[6]
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Mangubhai C. Patel		8 July 2021 (1 year, 293 days)	[13]	[7]
Maharashtra (list)	Ramesh Bais		18 February 2023 (68 days)	[14]	[8]
Manipur (list)	Anusuiya Uikey		22 February 2023 (64 days)	[15]
Meghalaya (list)	Phagu Chauhan		18 February 2023 (68 days)	[16]
Mizoram (list)	Kambhampati Hari Babu		19 July 2021 (1 year, 282 days)	[17]	[9]
Nagaland (list)	La. Ganesan		20 February 2023 (66 days)	[18]
Odisha (list)	Ganeshi Lal		29 May 2018 (4 years, 333 days)	[19]	[10]
Punjab (list)	Banwarilal Purohit		31 August 2021 (1 year, 239 days)	[20]
Rajasthan (list)	Kalraj Mishra		9 September 2019 (3 years, 230 days)	[21]	[11]
Sikkim (list)	Lakshman Acharya		16 February 2023 (70 days)	[22]
Tamil Nadu (list)	R. N. Ravi		18 September 2021 (1 year, 221 days)	[23]
Telangana (list)	Tamilisai Soundararajan		8 September 2019 (3 years, 231 days)	[24]	[12]
Tripura (list)	Satyadev Narayan Arya		14 July 2021 (1 year, 287 days)	[25]
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Anandiben Patel		29 July 2019 (3 years, 272 days)	[26]	[13]
Uttarakhand (list)	Gurmit Singh		15 September 2021 (1 year, 224 days)	[27]	[14]
West Bengal (list)	C. V. Ananda Bose		23 November 2022 (155 days)	[28]	[15]