| Governor of Gujarat | |
|---|---|
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| Style | His Excellency |
| Residence | Raj Bhavan; Gandhinagar |
| Appointer | President of India |
| Term length | At the pleasure of the President |
| Inaugural holder | Mehdi Nawaz Jung |
| Formation | 1 May 1960 |
| Website | https://rajbhavan.gujarat.gov.in |
The governor of Gujarat is the nominal head of the Indian state of Gujarat. The governor is appointed by the president of India and resides in Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar. Acharya Devvrat took charge as the governor on 22 July 2019.
The governor enjoys many different types of powers:
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| # | Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office | Duration | Home State | Appointed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Mehdi Nawaz Jung |  | 1 May 1960 | 1 August 1965 | 5 years, 92 days | Andhra Pradesh | Rajendra Prasad |
| 2. | Nityanand Kanungo |  | 1 August 1965 | 7 December 1967 | 2 years, 128 days | Odisha | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| - | P.N. Bhagwati |  | 7 December 1967 | 26 December 1967 | 19 days | Gujarat | Zakir Husain |
| 3. | Shriman Narayan |  | 26 December 1967 | 17 March 1973 | 5 years, 81 days | Not Known | |
| - | P.N. Bhagwati | | 17 March 1973 | 4 April 1973 | 18 days | Gujarat | V. V. Giri |
| 4. | K. K. Viswanathan | | 4 April 1973 | 14 August 1978 | 5 years, 132 days | Kerala | |
| 5. | Sharda Mukherjee |  | 14 August 1978 | 6 August 1983 | 4 years, 357 days | Maharashtra | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy |
| 6. | K.M. Chandy |  | 6 August 1983 | 26 April 1984 | 264 days | Kerala | Zail Singh |
| 7. | Braj Kumar Nehru |  | 26 April 1984 | 26 February 1986 | 1 year, 306 days | Uttar Pradesh | |
| 8. | Ram Krishna Trivedi | | 26 February 1986 | 2 May 1990 | 4 years, 65 days | Not Known | |
| 9. | Mahipal Shastri |  | 2 May 1990 | 21 December 1990 | 233 days | Uttar Pradesh | R. Venkataraman |
| 10. | Sarup Singh | | 21 December 1990 | 1 July 1995 | 4 years, 192 days | Haryana | |
| 11. | Naresh Chandra |  | 1 July 1995 | 1 March 1996 | 244 days | Uttar Pradesh | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 12. | Krishna Pal Singh |  | 1 March 1996 | 25 April 1998 | 2 years, 55 days | Madhya Pradesh | |
| 13. | Anshuman Singh | | 25 April 1998 | 16 January 1999 | 266 days | Uttar Pradesh | K. R. Narayan |
| - | K.G. Balakrishnan [1] |  | 16 January 1999 | 18 March 1999 | 61 days | Kerala | |
| 14. | Sunder Singh Bhandari | | 18 March 1999 | 7 May 2003 | 4 years, 50 days | Rajasthan | |
| 15. | Kailashpati Mishra |  | 7 May 2003 | 2 July 2004 | 1 year, 56 days | Bihar | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| - | Balram Jakhar |  | 2 July 2004 | 24 July 2004 | 22 days | Punjab | |
| 16. | Nawal Kishore Sharma | | 24 July 2004 | 24 July 2009 | 5 years, 0 days | Rajasthan | |
| - | S. C. Jamir [2] |  | 30 July 2009 | 26 November 2009 | 119 days | Nagaland | Pratibha Patil |
| 17. | Kamla Beniwal |  | 27 November 2009 | 6 July 2014 | 4 years, 221 days | Rajasthan | |
| - | Margaret Alva |  | 7 July 2014 | 15 July 2014 | 8 days | Karnataka | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 18. | Om Prakash Kohli |  | 16 July 2014 [3] | 21 July 2019 | 5 years, 5 days | Delhi | |
| 19. | Acharya Devvrat |  | 22 July 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 147 days | Haryana | Ramnath Kovind |
The Government of Gujarat, also known as GujaratGovernment, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Gujarat and its 33 districts. It consists of an executive of the legislators appointed by the Governor of Gujarat, a judiciary and of a publicly elected legislative body.
State Governments of India are the governments ruling over the 28 states and 3 union territories of India with the head of Council of Ministers in every state being the Chief Minister. Power is divided between the Union government and the state governments.
The Gujarat Legislative Assembly or Gujarat Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Gujarat, in the state capital Gandhinagar. Presently, 182 members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected from single-member constituencies (seats). It has a term of 5 years unless it is dissolved sooner. 13 constituencies are reserved for scheduled castes and 27 constituencies for scheduled tribes. From its majority party group or by way of a grand coalition cabinet of its prominent members, the state's Executive namely the Government of Gujarat is formed.
The Uttar Pradesh Legislature is the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It composed of the governor and both the houses of state legislature. The governor in his/her role as head of the legislature and has full powers to summon and prorogue either house of legislature or to dissolve the Vidhan Sabha. The governor can exercise these powers only upon the advice of the chief minister and his Council of Ministers. The legislature meets 3 times a year at Vidhan Bhavan in Lucknow.
Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel is an Indian statesman who is the current and 19th Governor of Madhya Pradesh. He is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Gujarat. He served as the officiating speaker of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly in 2014. He has earlier served as a cabinet minister in the Government of Gujarat. Patel was elected to the assembly from Navsari constituency. He has been appointed 19th Governor of Madhya Pradesh on 6 July 2021 by the President of India.
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| Regions of Gujarat | ||
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