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 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 governors of all Indian states

The following list consists of the list of the current governors of all the Indian states.^[2] All the governors in this list are appointed by India's former president Ram Nath Kovind .

State (past governors)	Name	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Profile link	Ref.
Andhra Pradesh (list)	Biswabhusan Harichandan		24 July 2019 (3 years, 57 days)	[1]	[3]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	B. D. Mishra		3 October 2017 (4 years, 351 days)	[2]	[4]
Assam (list)	Jagdish Mukhi		10 October 2017 (4 years, 344 days)	[3]	[5]
Bihar (list)	Phagu Chauhan		29 July 2019 (3 years, 52 days)	[4]	[6]
Chhattisgarh (list)	Anusuiya Uikey		29 July 2019 (3 years, 52 days)	[5]	[7]
Goa (list)	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai		15 July 2021 (1 year, 66 days)	[6]
Gujarat (list)	Acharya Devvrat		22 July 2019 (3 years, 59 days)	[7]	[8]
Haryana (list)	Bandaru Dattatreya		15 July 2021 (1 year, 66 days)	[8]
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Rajendra Arlekar		13 July 2021 (1 year, 68 days)	[9]	[9]
Jharkhand (list)	Ramesh Bais		14 July 2021 (1 year, 67 days)	[10]
Karnataka (list)	Thawar Chand Gehlot		11 July 2021 (1 year, 70 days)	[11]	[10]
Kerala (list)	Arif Mohammad Khan		6 September 2019 (3 years, 13 days)	[12]	[11]
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Mangubhai C. Patel		8 July 2021 (1 year, 73 days)	[13]	[12]
Maharashtra (list)	Bhagat Singh Koshyari		5 September 2019 (3 years, 14 days)	[14]	[13]
Manipur (list)	La. Ganesan		27 August 2021 (1 year, 23 days)	[15]
Meghalaya (list)	Satya Pal Malik		19 August 2020 (2 years, 31 days)	[16]
Mizoram (list)	Kambhampati Hari Babu		19 July 2021 (1 year, 62 days)	[17]	[14]
Nagaland (list)	Jagdish Mukhi (additional charge)		17 September 2021 (1 year, 2 days)	[18]
Odisha (list)	Ganeshi Lal		29 May 2018 (4 years, 113 days)	[19]	[15]
Punjab (list)	Banwarilal Purohit		31 August 2021 (1 year, 19 days)	[20]
Rajasthan (list)	Kalraj Mishra		9 September 2019 (3 years, 10 days)	[21]	[16]
Sikkim (list)	Ganga Prasad		26 August 2018 (4 years, 24 days)	[22]	[17]
Tamil Nadu (list)	R. N. Ravi		18 September 2021 (1 year, 1 day)	[23]
Telangana (list)	Tamilisai Soundararajan		8 September 2019 (3 years, 11 days)	[24]	[18]
Tripura (list)	Satyadev Narayan Arya		14 July 2021 (1 year, 67 days)	[25]
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Anandiben Patel		29 July 2019 (3 years, 52 days)	[26]	[19]
Uttarakhand (list)	Gurmit Singh		15 September 2021 (1 year, 4 days)	[27]	[20]
West Bengal (list)	La. Ganesan (additional charge)		18 July 2022 (63 days)	[28]	[21]