List of current governors of all Indian states: Difference between revisions

Current Indian governors

In the Republic of India, according to the Article 154 of the Constitution of the Republic of India, a governor is the constitutional head of each of the twenty-eight states. They rank 4th in the order of the presendence of India. The governor is appointed by the President of the Republic of India for a term of five years, and holds office at the president’s pleasure. They also may not have the 5 years term and is seen very rarely.

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. This situation is analogous to that of the President and the Prime Minister at the national 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.^[1] Acharya Devvrat, the Governor of Gujarat, is currently the longest-serving officeholder. The most recent governor to assume charge is Ashok Gajapathi Raju, the Governor of Goa. Two governors are currently holding additional charge of two different states. Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Governor of Manipur is holding the additional charge as Governor of Nagaland, while Acharya Devvrat, the Governor of Gujarat holds the additional charge as Governor of Maharashtra. Anandiben Patel, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh (aged 84 years) is the oldest whereas Ajay Kumar Bhalla, the Governor of Manipur and Nagaland (aged 65 years) is the youngest.

The following list consists of the list of the current governors of all the Indian states.

No.	State	List	Portrait	Governor	Took office	Term length	Appointer (President)
1.	Andhra Pradesh	List		Syed Abdul Nazeer	24 February 2023	2 years, 285 days	Droupadi Murmu
2.	Arunachal Pradesh	List		Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik	16 February 2023	2 years, 293 days
3.	Assam	List		Lakshman Acharya	30 July 2024	1 year, 129 days
4.	Bihar	List		Arif Mohammad Khan	2 January 2025	338 days
5.	Chhattisgarh	List		Ramen Deka	31 July 2024	1 year, 128 days
6.	Goa	List		Ashok Gajapathi Raju	26 July 2025	133 days
7.	Gujarat	List		Acharya Dev Vrat	22 July 2019	6 years, 137 days	Ram Nath Kovind
8.	Haryana	List		Ashim Kumar Ghosh	21 July 2025	138 days	Droupadi Murmu
9.	Himachal Pradesh	List		Shiv Pratap Shukla	18 February 2023	2 years, 291 days
10.	Jharkhand	List		Santosh Kumar Gangwar	31 July 2024	1 year, 128 days
11.	Karnataka	List		Thawar Chand Gehlot	11 July 2021	4 years, 148 days	Ram Nath Kovind
12.	Kerala	List		Rajendra Arlekar	2 January 2025	338 days	Droupadi Murmu
13.	Madhya Pradesh	List		Mangubhai Chagganbhai Patel	8 July 2021	4 years, 151 days	Ram Nath Kovind
14.	Maharashtra	List		Acharya Dev Vrat (additional charge)	15 September 2025	82 days	Droupadi Murmu
15.	Manipur	List		Ajay Kumar Bhalla	3 January 2025	337 days
16.	Meghalaya	List		C. H. Vijayashankar	30 July 2024	1 year, 129 days
17.	Mizoram	List		V. K. Singh	16 January 2025	324 days
18.	Nagaland	List		Ajay Kumar Bhalla (additional charge)	25 August 2025	103 days
19.	Odisha	List		Kambhampati Hari Babu	3 January 2025	337 days
20.	Punjab	List		Gulab Chand Kataria	31 July 2024	1 year, 128 days
21.	Rajasthan	List		Haribhau Bagade	31 July 2024	1 year, 128 days
22.	Sikkim	List		Om Prakash Mathur	31 July 2024	1 year, 128 days
23.	Tamil Nadu	List		R. N. Ravi	18 September 2021	4 years, 79 days	Ram Nath Kovind
24.	Telangana	List		Jishnu Dev Varma	31 July 2024	1 year, 128 days	Droupadi Murmu
25.	Tripura	List		Nallu Indrasena Reddy	26 October 2023	2 years, 41 days
26.	Uttarakhand	List		Gurmit Singh	15 September 2021	4 years, 82 days	Ram Nath Kovind
27.	Uttar Pradesh	List		Anandiben Patel	29 July 2019	6 years, 130 days	Ram Nath Kovind |-	28.	West Bengal	List		C. V. Ananda Bose	23 November 2022	3 years, 13 days	Droupadi Murmu