List of Current Governors of State in India

Complete Detailed List of Current Governors of State in India

Current governors of states

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State (past governors)	Name[2]	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Ref
Andhra Pradesh (list)	E. S. L. Narasimhan		28 December 2009  ,x Jatt (8 years, 236 days)	[3]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	B. D. Mishra		3 October 2017 (322 days)	[4]
Assam (list)	Jagdish Mukhi		10 October 2017 (315 days)	[5]
Bihar (list)	Lalji Tandon		22 August 2018 (−1 day)	[6]
Chhattisgarh (list)	Anandiben Patel (additional charge)		15 August 2018 (6 days)	[7]
Goa (list)	Mridula Sinha		31 August 2014 (3 years, 355 days)	[8]
Gujarat (list)	Om Prakash Kohli		16 July 2014 (4 years, 36 days)	[9]
Haryana (list)	Satyadev Narayan Arya		22 August 2018 (−1 day)	[10]
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Acharya Dev Vrat		12 August 2015 (3 years, 9 days)	[11]
Jammu and Kashmir (list)	Satya Pal Malik		22 August 2018 (−1 day)	[12]
Jharkhand (list)	Draupadi Murmu		18 May 2015 (3 years, 95 days)	[13]
Karnataka (list)	Vajubhai Vala		1 September 2014 (3 years, 354 days)	[14]
Kerala (list)	P. Sathasivam		5 September 2014 (3 years, 350 days)	[15]
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Anandiben Patel		23 January 2018 (210 days)	[16]
Maharashtra (list)	C. Vidyasagar Rao		30 August 2014 (3 years, 356 days)	[17]
Manipur (list)	Najma Heptulla		21 August 2016 (2 years, 0 days)	[18]
Meghalaya (list)	Tathagata Roy		22 August 2018 (−1 day)	[19]
Mizoram (list)	Kummanam Rajasekharan		29 May 2018 (84 days)	[20]
Nagaland (list)	Padmanabha Acharya		19 July 2014 (4 years, 33 days)	[21]
Odisha (list)	Ganeshi Lal		29 May 2018 (84 days)	[22]
Punjab (list)	V. P. Singh Badnore		22 August 2016 (1 year, 364 days)	[23]
Rajasthan (list)	Kalyan Singh		4 September 2014 (3 years, 351 days)	[24]
Sikkim (list)	Ganga Prasad		22 August 2018 (−1 day)	[25]
Tamil Nadu (list)	Banwarilal Purohit		6 October 2017 (319 days)	[26]
Telangana (list)	E. S. L. Narasimhan (additional charge)		2 June 2014 (4 years, 80 days)	[27]
Tripura (list)	Kaptan Singh Solanki		22 August 2018 (−1 day)	[28]
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Ram Naik		22 July 2014 (4 years, 30 days)	[29]
Uttarakhand (list)	Baby Rani Maurya		22 August 2018 (−1 day)	[30]
West Bengal (list)	Keshari Nath Tripathi		24 July 2014 (4 years, 28 days)	[31]

Current lieutenant governors and administrators of union territories

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Office and union territory (past officeholders)	Name[32]	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Ref
Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (list)	Devendra Kumar Joshi		8 October 2017 (317 days)	[33]
Administrator of Chandigarh (list)	V. P. Singh Badnore		22 August 2016 (1 year, 364 days)	[23]
Administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli (list)	Praful Khoda Patel (Additional charge)		30 December 2016 (1 year, 234 days)	[34]
Administrator of Daman and Diu (list)	Praful Khoda Patel		29 August 2016 (1 year, 357 days)	[35]
Lieutenant Governor of Delhi (list)	Anil Baijal		31 December 2016 (1 year, 233 days)	[36]
Administrator of Lakshadweep (list)	Farooq Khan		6 September 2016 (1 year, 349 days)	[37]
Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry (list)	Kiran Bedi		29 May 2016 (2 years, 84 days)

Your preparation for any competitive exam, be it SSC CGL, SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBSP PO, RBI Grade B, Railways RRB etc., is incomplete without having good knowledge in Current Affairs & General Knowledge. Very often, you will see that the test setters will challenge your knowledge of Polity & General Awareness and ask you to recall the deployed Governors in India.

The Governors in India are the Constitutional Heads and all executive actions of a State are taken in the governor’s name. They are heads of the twenty-nine States and seven Union Territories. Moreover, they are appointed by the President for a term of five years. They hold the post subject to pleasure of President. Governors are the figurative head of the state government. A governor must act according to the advice of council ministers, headed by the Chief Minister.

Some Trivia about Governors in India

• Sarojini Naidu was the first female Governor of an Indian State. As a result, she governed United Provinces of Agra & Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh) from 15 August 1947 – 2 March 1949.
• Padmaja Naidu, daughter of Sarojini Naidu, was the longest serving Governor of a state. with a serving tenure of 11 years in West Bengal.
• Draupadi Murmu is the first woman governor of Jharkhand.
• A.K. Kidwai is the longest serving Governor, serving as Governors for Bihar, West Bengal and Haryana.
• Articles 157 and 158 of the Constitution of India deal with eligibility requirements of a Governor of India.
• The eligibility criteria are:
• Citizenship of India.
• 35 years of age or more.
• Not an MP or MLA.
• Not a holder of any other office of profit.

See alsoEdit

• List of current Indian chief ministers
• List of current Indian chief justices
• List of current Indian legislative speakers
• List of current Indian opposition leaders
• List of female Indian governors

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