Advocate general (India)

In India, an advocate general is a legal advisor to a state government. The post is created by the Constitution of India 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 High Court as the Advocate General.

List of Advocate Generals in States

    State Advocate General
    Andhra Pradesh Subrahmanyam Sriram
    Arunachal Pradesh Nilay Ananda Dutta
    Assam Ramesh Chandra Borpatra Gohain
    Bihar Lalit Kishore
    Chhattisgarh Satish Chandra Verma
    Goa Devidas Pangam
    Gujarat Kamal Trivedi
    Haryana Baldev Raj Mahajan
    Himachal Pradesh Ashok Sharma
    Jharkhand Rajiv Ranjan
    Karnataka Prabhuling K. Navadagi
    Kerala C. P. Sudhakara Prasad
    Madhya Pradesh Purushaindra Kaurav
    Maharashtra Ashutosh Kumbhakoni
    Manipur Naorem Kumarjit Singh
    Meghalaya Amit Kumar
    Mizoram Biswajeet Deb
    Nagaland K. N. Balagopal
    Odisha Ashok Parija
    Punjab Atul Nanda
    Rajasthan Mahendra Singh Singhvi
    Sikkim Vivek Kohli
    Tamil Nadu Vijay Narayan
    Telangana B. S. Prasad
    Tripura Siddhartha Shankar Dey
    Uttar Pradesh Raghvendra Singh
    Uttarakhand S. N. Babulkar
    West Bengal Kishore Dutta

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