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 in November 2019

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

State (past governors)	Name	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Appointed by	Profile link	Ref.
Andhra Pradesh (list)	Biswabhusan Harichandan		24 July 2019 (2 years, 297 days)	Ram Nath Kovind	[1]	[3]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	B. D. Mishra		3 October 2017 (4 years, 226 days)		[2]	[4]
Assam (list)	Jagdish Mukhi		10 October 2017 (4 years, 219 days)		[3]	[5]
Bihar (list)	Phagu Chauhan		29 July 2019 (2 years, 292 days)		[4]	[6]
Chhattisgarh (list)	Anusuiya Uikey		29 July 2019 (2 years, 292 days)		[5]	[7]
Goa (list)	P. S. Sreedharan Pillai		15 July 2021 (306 days)		[6]
Gujarat (list)	Acharya Devvrat		22 July 2019 (2 years, 299 days)		[7]	[8]
Haryana (list)	Bandaru Dattatreya		15 July 2021 (306 days)		[8]
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Rajendra Arlekar		13 July 2021 (308 days)		[9]	[9]
Jharkhand (list)	Ramesh Bais		14 July 2021 (307 days)		[10]
Karnataka (list)	Thawar Chand Gehlot		11 July 2021 (310 days)		[11]	[10]
Kerala (list)	Arif Mohammad Khan		6 September 2019 (2 years, 253 days)		[12]	[11]
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Mangubhai C. Patel		8 July 2021 (313 days)		[13]	[12]
Maharashtra (list)	Bhagat Singh Koshyari		5 September 2019 (2 years, 254 days)		[14]	[13]
Manipur (list)	La. Ganesan		27 August 2021 (263 days)		[15]
Meghalaya (list)	Satya Pal Malik		19 August 2020 (1 year, 271 days)		[16]
Mizoram (list)	Kambhampati Hari Babu		19 July 2021 (302 days)		[17]	[14]
Nagaland (list)	Jagdish Mukhi (additional charge)		17 September 2021 (242 days)		[18]
Odisha (list)	Ganeshi Lal		29 May 2018 (3 years, 353 days)		[19]	[15]
Punjab (list)	Banwarilal Purohit		31 August 2021 (259 days)		[20]
Rajasthan (list)	Kalraj Mishra		9 September 2019 (2 years, 250 days)		[21]	[16]
Sikkim (list)	Ganga Prasad		26 August 2018 (3 years, 264 days)		[22]	[17]
Tamil Nadu (list)	R. N. Ravi		18 September 2021 (241 days)		[23]
Telangana (list)	Tamilisai Soundararajan		8 September 2019 (2 years, 251 days)		[24]	[18]
Tripura (list)	Satyadev Narayan Arya		14 July 2021 (307 days)		[25]
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Anandiben Patel		29 July 2019 (2 years, 292 days)		[26]	[19]
Uttarakhand (list)	Gurmit Singh		15 September 2021 (244 days)		[27]	[20]
West Bengal (list)	Jagdeep Dhankhar		30 July 2019 (2 years, 291 days)		[28]	[21]