Advocate general (India)

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In India, an advocate general is a legal advisor to a state government. [1] The post was created by the Constitution of India (vide Article 165) and corresponds to that of Attorney General for India at the union government level. The governor of each state shall appoint a person who is qualified to be appointed as judge of the High Court as the advocate general.

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List of advocates general in states

StateAdvocate General
Andhra Pradesh Dhammalapati Srinivas
Arunachal Pradesh Indraneel Chaudhary
Assam Devajit Lon Saikia [2]
Bihar Prashant Kumar Shahi [3]
Chhattisgarh Satish Chandra Verma [4]
Goa Devidas Pangam [5]
Gujarat Kamal Trivedi [6]
Haryana B. R. Mahajan [7]
Himachal Pradesh Ashok Sharma [8]
Jammu & Kashmir D. C. Raina [9]
Jharkhand Rajiv Ranjan [10]
Karnataka Shashi Kiran Shetty [11]
Kerala K. Gopalakrishna Kurup [12]
Madhya Pradesh Prashant Singh [13]
Maharashtra Dr. Birendra Saraf [14]
Manipur Naorem Kumarjit Singh
Meghalaya Amit Kumar [15]
Mizoram Diganta Das
Nagaland Vikramjit Banerjee [16]
Odisha Jyoti Prakash Pattnaik
Punjab Gurminder Singh
Rajasthan Shri M.S. Singhvi
Sikkim Vivek Kohli [17]
Tamil Nadu P. S. Raman [18]
Telangana A. Sudarshan Reddy
Tripura Siddhartha Shankar Dey
Uttar Pradesh Ajay Kumar Mishra
Uttarakhand S. N. Babulkar [19]
West Bengal kishor Dutta [20]

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