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)	Biswabhusan Harichandan		24 July 2019 (3 years, 179 days)	[1]	[3]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	B. D. Mishra		3 October 2017 (5 years, 108 days)	[2]	[4]
Assam (list)	Jagdish Mukhi		10 October 2017 (5 years, 101 days)	[3]	[5]
Bihar (list)	Phagu Chauhan		29 July 2019 (3 years, 174 days)	[4]	[6]
Chhattisgarh (list)	Anusuiya Uikey		29 July 2019 (3 years, 174 days)	[5]	[7]
Goa (list)	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai		15 July 2021 (1 year, 188 days)	[6]
Gujarat (list)	Acharya Devvrat		22 July 2019 (3 years, 181 days)	[7]	[8]
Haryana (list)	Bandaru Dattatreya		15 July 2021 (1 year, 188 days)	[8]
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Rajendra Arlekar		13 July 2021 (1 year, 190 days)	[9]	[9]
Jharkhand (list)	Ramesh Bais		14 July 2021 (1 year, 189 days)	[10]
Karnataka (list)	Thawar Chand Gehlot		11 July 2021 (1 year, 192 days)	[11]	[10]
Kerala (list)	Arif Mohammad Khan		6 September 2019 (3 years, 135 days)	[12]	[11]
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Mangubhai C. Patel		8 July 2021 (1 year, 195 days)	[13]	[12]
Maharashtra (list)	Bhagat Singh Koshyari		5 September 2019 (3 years, 136 days)	[14]	[13]
Manipur (list)	La. Ganesan		27 August 2021 (1 year, 145 days)	[15]
Meghalaya (list)	B. D. Mishra (additional charge)		4 October 2022 (107 days)	[16]
Mizoram (list)	Kambhampati Hari Babu		19 July 2021 (1 year, 184 days)	[17]	[14]
Nagaland (list)	Jagdish Mukhi (additional charge)		17 September 2021 (1 year, 124 days)	[18]
Odisha (list)	Ganeshi Lal		29 May 2018 (4 years, 235 days)	[19]	[15]
Punjab (list)	Banwarilal Purohit		31 August 2021 (1 year, 141 days)	[20]
Rajasthan (list)	Kalraj Mishra		9 September 2019 (3 years, 132 days)	[21]	[16]
Sikkim (list)	Ganga Prasad		26 August 2018 (4 years, 146 days)	[22]	[17]
Tamil Nadu (list)	R. N. Ravi		18 September 2021 (1 year, 123 days)	[23]
Telangana (list)	Tamilisai Soundararajan		8 September 2019 (3 years, 133 days)	[24]	[18]
Tripura (list)	Satyadev Narayan Arya		14 July 2021 (1 year, 189 days)	[25]
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Anandiben Patel		29 July 2019 (3 years, 174 days)	[26]	[19]
Uttarakhand (list)	Gurmit Singh		15 September 2021 (1 year, 126 days)	[27]	[20]
West Bengal (list)	C. V. Ananda Bose		23 November 2022 (57 days)	[28]	[21]