Advocate general (India)

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.

List of advocates general in states

State	Advocate General
Arunachal Pradesh	Indraneel Chaudhary
Andhra Pradesh	Dhammalapati Srinivas
Assam	Devajit Saikia [2]
Bihar	Prashant Kumar Shahi [3]
Chhattisgarh	Praful Bharat [4]
Goa	Devidas Pangam [5]
Gujarat	Kamal Trivedi [6]
Haryana	Pravindra Singh [7]
Himachal Pradesh	Anup Kumar Rattan [8]
Jammu and 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	Lenin Singh Hijam
Meghalaya	Amit Kumar [15]
Mizoram	Biswajit Deb
Nagaland	Vikramjit Banerjee [16]
Odisha	Pitambar Acharya
Punjab	Maninderjit Singh Bedi
Rajasthan	Shri Rajendra Prasad
Sikkim	Basava Prabhu S. Patil [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

See also

• Chief secretary
• Director general of police
• Head of Forest Forces
• Solicitor General of India

References

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