List of governors in India

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A governor in India is the head of a state appointed by the Indian president . While governance in the states is exercised by the respective chief minister , the governorship is mainly of a ceremonial nature. The duties of the governors and vice-governors at the state level are roughly the same as those of the president at the Union level. A regular term of office lasts five years. Your most important political instrument is the power to impose the President's rule on the Presidentacross the state to propose. In contrast to the head of government and the regional political landscape, the office is usually not occupied by a person from the respective state.

In the union territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands , Delhi , Jammu and Kashmir , Ladakh and Puducherry , it bears the designation of lieutenant governor with the same powers . In the other Union territories of Chandigarh , Dadra and Nagar Haveli , Daman and Diu and Lakshadweep , the position is occupied by an administrator from the Indian Administrative Service .

Overview

There are a total of 28 governors in the states, five lieutenant governors and four administrators. The following list reflects the status of August 2020:

State Surname In office since Former
Andaman and Nicobar Islands * Devendra Kumar Joshi October 8, 2017 list
Andhra Pradesh Biswabhusan Harichandan July 24, 2019 list
Arunachal Pradesh BD Mishra 3rd October 2017 list
Assam Jagdish Mukhi October 10, 2017 list
Bihar Phagu Chauhan 29th July 2019 list
Chandigarh ** VP Singh Badnore 22nd August 2016 list
Chhattisgarh Anusuiya Uikey 29th July 2019 list
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu ** Praful Khoda Patel December 30, 2016 list
Delhi * Anil Baijal December 31, 2016 list
Goa Mridula Sinha August 26, 2014 list
Gujarat Acharya Devvrat July 22, 2019 list
Haryana Satyadev Narayan Arya August 25, 2018 list
Himachal Pradesh Bandaru Dattatreya September 11, 2019 list
Jammu and Kashmir * Girish Chandra Murmu October 31, 2019 list
Jharkhand Draupadi Murmu May 18, 2015 list
Karnataka Vajubhai Vala September 1, 2014 list
Kerala Arif Mohammad Khan September 6, 2019 list
Ladakh * Radha Krishna Mathur October 31, 2019 list
Lakshadweep ** Dineshwar Sharma 3rd November 2019 list
Madhya Pradesh Lalji Tandon 29th July 2019 list
Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari 5th September 2019 list
Manipur Najma Heptulla 17th August 2016 list
Meghalaya Tathagata Roy August 25, 2018 list
Mizoram PS Sreedharan Pillai October 25, 2019 list
Nagaland RN Ravi August 1, 2019 list
Odisha Ganeshi Lal 29 May 2018 list
Pondicherry * Kiran Bedi May 29, 2016 list
Punjab VP Singh Badnore 22nd August 2016 list
Rajasthan Kalraj Mishra September 9, 2019 list
Sikkim Ganga Prasad August 26, 2018 list
Tamil Nadu Banwarilal Purohit October 6, 2017 list
Telangana Tamilisai Soundararajan September 8, 2019 list
Tripura Ramesh Bais 29th July 2019 list
Uttarakhand Baby Rani Maurya August 26, 2018 list
Uttar Pradesh Anandiben patel 29th July 2019 list
West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankar July 30, 2019 list

* Union territory with lieutenant governor
** Union territory with administrator

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