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]
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] |