The Governor is appointed by the President. His term of office is 5 years but he can be removed earlier if the president so desires. Only an Indian citizen above 30 years of age is eligible for appointment as Governor of a state.
Powers and Functions
1. He appoints the chief minister of his state and other ministers on the advice of the chief ministers. He also appoints the advocate general and chairman and members of the Public Service Commission of the state.
2. He has the power to grant pardon, suspend remit or commute sentences over which the power of the extends.
3. No bill can become a law in his state without his assent.
4. The budget of the state is also submitted on his behalf.
5. He summons and prorogues the Houses of the State legislature. He can dissolve the legislative assembly.
6. He can issue ordinances when Parliament is not in session ( valid for six weeks).
Read in Hindi : भारत के वर्तमान राज्यपाल व मुख्यमंत्री 2023
Chief Minister
The council of ministers in a state is formed by the Chief Minister in a state is who is appointed by the Governor and is normally the elected leader of the majority party and who heads the council of ministers. Normally, it is expected that the appointed Chief Minister is a member of the legislature. If not so then he has to get himself elected or nominated to the legislature within six months of his appointment as Chief Minister.
Powers and Functions
1. The Chief Ministers appoints other ministers in his council of ministers.
2. He is answerable to the Governor for any act of commission or omission done by an individual minister.
3. He can call upon any Minister to resign if he so wishes.
4. He presides over the Cabinet meetings.
| States | Capitals |
Chief Ministers |
Governors |
| Andhra Pradesh | Hyderabad | YS Jagan Mohan Reddy | Biswa Bhusan Harichandan |
| Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar | Pema Khandu | Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.) |
| Assam | Dispur | Himanta Biswa Sarma | Prof. Jagdish Mukhi |
| Bihar | Patna | Nitish Kumar | Phagu Chauhan |
| Chhattisgarh | Raipur | Bhupesh Baghel | Sushri Anusuiya Uikey |
| Delhi (NCT) | Arvind Kejriwal | Anil Baijal (Lieutenant Governor) | |
| Goa | Panaji | Pramod Sawant | P.S. Sreedharan Pillai |
| Gujarat | Gandhinagar | Bhupendra Patel | Acharya Dev Vrat |
| Haryana | Chandigarh | Manohar Lal | Bandaru Dattatraya |
| Himachal Pradesh | Shimla | Jairam Thakur | Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar |
| Jharkhand | Ranchi | Hemant Soren | Ramesh Bais |
| Karnataka | Bengaluru | Basavaraj Bommai | Thaawarchand Gehlot |
| Kerala | Thiruvananthapuram | Pinarayi Vijayan | Arif Mohammed Khan |
| Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal | Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel |
| Maharashtra | Mumbai | Eknath Shinde | Bhagat Singh Koshyari |
| Manipur | Imphal | N. Biren Singh | La Ganesan |
| Meghalaya | Shillong | Conrad Kongkal Sangma | Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.) (Additional Charge) |
| Mizoram | Aizawl | Pu Zoramthanga | Dr. Hari Babu Kambhampati |
| Nagaland | Kohima | Neiphiu Rio | Prof. Jagdish Mukhi (Additional Charge) |
| Odisha | Bhubaneswar | Naveen Patnaik | Prof. Ganeshi Lal |
| Puducherry (UT) | N. Rangaswamy | Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan -Additional Charge (Lieutenant Governor) | |
| Punjab | Chandigarh | Charanjit Singh Channi | Banwarilal Purohit |
| Rajasthan | Jaipur | Ashok Gehlot | Kalraj Mishra |
| Sikkim | Gangtok | PS Golay | Ganga Prasad |
| Tamil Nadu | Chennai | M. K. Stalin | R. N. Ravi |
| Telangana | Hyderabad | K Chandrasekhar Rao | Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan |
| Tripura | Agartala | Biplab Kumar Deb | Satyadeo Narain Arya |
| Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow | Yogi Aditya Nath | Smt. Anandiben Patel |
| Uttarakhand | Dehradun | Trivendra Singh Rawat | Lt Gen (retd) Gurmit Singh |
| West Bengal | Kolkata | Km. Mamata Banerjee | La Ganesan |
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