Governors of Maharashtra

Governors of Maharashtra

Governor of Maharashtra is the nominal head of the state. He/She is also the representative of the President of India in the state of Maharashtra. Bhagat Singh Koshyari is the present Governor of Maharashtra since 2019.

This is a list of governors of the erstwhile Bombay State and Maharashtra (from 1 May 1960):

Sl.No.	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	The Rt. Hon. Sir John Colville	4/26/1905	5/1/1905
2	Raja Maharaj Singh	5/1/1905	5/5/1905
3	Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai	5/5/1905	5/7/1905
4	Dr Harekrushna Mahatab	5/8/1905	5/9/1905
5	Sri Prakasa	5/9/1905	5/15/1905
6	Dr P. Subbarayan	4/17/1962	10/6/1962
7	Vijayalakshmi Pandit	11/28/1962	10/18/1964
8	Dr P V Cherian	11/14/1964	11/8/1969
9	Ali Yavar Jung	2/26/1970	12/11/1976
10	Sri Sadiq Ali	4/30/1977	11/3/1980
11	Air Chief Marshal O P Mehra	11/3/1980	3/5/1982
12	Air Chief Marshal I H Latif	3/6/1982	4/16/1985
13	Kona Prabhakar Rao	5/31/1985	4/2/1986
14	Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma	4/3/1986	9/2/1987
15	Kasu Brahmananda Reddy	2/20/1988	1/18/1990
16	Dr. C Subramaniam	2/15/1990	1/9/1993
17	Dr. P.C. Alexander	1/12/1993	7/13/2002
18	Mohammed Fazal	10/10/2002	12/5/2004
19	S.M. Krishna	12/12/2004	3/5/2008
20	S.C. Jamir	3/9/2008	1/22/2010
21	Kateekal Sankaranarayanan	1/22/2010	Present

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