| Post: | Governor |
| Insignia: | Seal of Maharashtra.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Maharashtra |
| Body: | Maharashtra |
| Incumbent: | C. P. Radhakrishnan |
| Incumbentsince: | 31 July 2024 |
| Abbreviation: | GOM |
| Style: | The Honourable Mr.Governor His/Her Excellency |
| Residence: | Raj Bhavan, MumbaiRaj Bhavan, NagpurRaj Bhavan, PuneRaj Bhavan, Mahabaleshwar |
| Termlength: | Five years |
| Appointer: | President of India |
| Precursor: | Governor of Maharashtra |
| Inaugural: | Raja Maharaj Singh |
The Governor of Maharashtra is the ceremonial head of the state of Maharashtra. The Constitution of India confers the executive powers of the state to the governor, however the de facto executive powers lie with the Council of Ministers.[1]
C. P. Radhakrishnan is the current governor of Maharashtra since 31 July 2024.[2] [3]
The governor formally appoints many of the state officials, including the advocate general of Bombay, the Lokayukta and Upa Lokayukta, the state election commissioner, the chairman and members of the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal, the chairman and members of the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission, the chairman and members of the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC), the chairmen and members of the three development boards, the sheriff of Bombay, and the state chief information commissioner.
This is a list of governors of Maharashtra:[4]
| Name (borndied) | Portrait | Home state | Tenure in office | Immediate prior position held | Appointed by | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Time in office | |||||||
| Governor of Bombay State | |||||||||
| 1 | Raja Sir Maharaj Singh | Punjab | 6 January 1948 | 30 May 1952 | President, All India Conference of Indian Christians | Lord Louis Mountbatten | |||
| 2 | Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai | Uttar Pradesh | 30 May 1952 | 5 December 1954 | Secretary-General, Ministry of External Affairs | Rajendra Prasad | |||
M. C. Chagla (Acting) | Bombay | 5 December 1954 | 2 March 1955 | ||||||
| 3 | Harekrushna Mahatab | Orissa | 2 March 1955 | 14 October 1956 | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | ||||
M. C. Chagla (Acting) | Bombay | 14 October 1956 | 10 December 1956 | ||||||
| 4 | Sri Prakasa | Uttar Pradesh | 10 December 1956 | 30 April 1960 | Governor of Madras State | ||||
| Governor of Maharashtra | |||||||||
| (4) | Sri Prakasa | Uttar Pradesh | 1 May 1960 | 16 April 1962 | Governor of Bombay State | Rajendra Prasad | |||
| 5 | P. Subbarayan | Madras | 17 April 1962 | 6 October 1962 | Union Cabinet Minister for Transport and Communications | ||||
H. K. Chainani (Acting) | Maharashtra | 6 October 1962 | 28 November 1962 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | |||||
| 6 | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | Uttar Pradesh | 28 November 1962 | 18 October 1964 | High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
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H. K. Chainani (Acting) | Maharashtra | 18 October 1964 | 14 November 1964 | ||||||
| 7 | P. V. Cherian | Madras | 14 November 1964 | 8 November 1969 | Chairman of Madras Legislative Council | ||||
S. P. Kotval (Acting) | Maharashtra | 8 November 1969 | 26 February 1970 | V. V. Giri | |||||
| 8 | Ali Yavar Jung | Telangana | 26 February 1970 | 11 December 1976 | Ambassador to the United States | ||||
R. M. Kantawala (Acting) | Maharashtra | 11 December 1976 | 30 April 1977 | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | |||||
| 9 | Sadiq Ali | Rajasthan | 30 April 1977 | 8 November 1980 | B. D. Jatti | ||||
| 10 | Om Prakash Mehra | Punjab | 8 November 1980 | 5 March 1982 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | ||||
| 11 | Idris Hasan Latif | Telangana | 6 March 1982 | 16 April 1985 | |||||
Konda Madhava Reddy (Acting) | Telangana | 16 April 1985 | 30 May 1985 | Zail Singh | |||||
| 12 | Kona Prabhakara Rao | Andhra Pradesh | 31 May 1985 | 2 April 1986 | Governor of Sikkim | ||||
| 13 | Shankar Dayal Sharma | Madhya Pradesh | 3 April 1986 | 2 September 1987 | Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh | ||||
S. K. Desai (Acting) | Maharashtra | 3 September 1987 | 2 November 1987 | R. Venkataraman | |||||
Chittatosh Mookerjee (Acting) | West Bengal | 2 November 1987 | 20 February 1988 | ||||||
| 14 | Kasu Brahmananda Reddy | Andhra Pradesh | 20 February 1988 | 18 January 1990 | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | ||||
Chittatosh Mookerjee (Acting) | West Bengal | 18 January 1990 | 14 February 1990 | ||||||
| 15 | Chidambaram Subramaniam | Tamil Nadu | 15 February 1990 | 9 January 1993 | |||||
| 16 | P. C. Alexander | Kerala | 12 January 1993 | 13 July 2002 | Shankar Dayal Sharma | ||||
C. K. Thakker (Acting) | Gujarat | 13 July 2002 | 10 October 2002 | K. R. Narayanan | |||||
| 17 | Mohammed Fazal | Uttar Pradesh | 10 October 2002 | 5 December 2004 | Governor of Goa | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | |||
| 18 | S. M. Krishna | Karnataka | 12 December 2004 | 5 March 2008 | |||||
| S. C. Jamir (Additional charge until 8 July 2008) | Nagaland | 9 March 2008 | 8 July 2008 | Governor of Goa | Pratibha Patil | ||||
| 19 | S. C. Jamir | 8 July 2008 | 22 January 2010 | ||||||
| 20 | K. Sankaranarayanan | Kerala | 22 January 2010 | 7 May 2012 | Governor of Jharkhand | ||||
| 7 May 2012 | 24 August 2014 | ||||||||
| Om Prakash Kohli (Additional Charge) | Delhi | 24 August 2014 | 30 August 2014 | Pranab Mukherjee | |||||
| 21 | C. Vidyasagar Rao | Telangana | 30 August 2014 | 4 September 2019 | |||||
| 22 | Bhagat Singh Koshyari | Uttarakhand | 5 September 2019 | 17 February 2023 | Ram Nath Kovind | ||||
| 23 | Ramesh Bais | Chhattisgarh | 18 February 2023 | 30 July 2024 | Governor of Jharkhand | Droupadi Murmu | |||
| 24 | C. P. Radhakrishnan | Tamil Nadu | 31 July 2024 | Incumbent |
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