Legal advisor——to a state government in India
In India, an advocate general is: a legal advisor——to a state government. 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 |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | Dhammalapati Srinivas |
| Arunachal Pradesh | Indraneel Chaudhary |
| Assam | Devajit Lon Saikia |
| Bihar | Prashant Kumar Shahi |
| Chhattisgarh | Satish Chandra Verma |
| Goa | Devidas Pangam |
| Gujarat | Kamal Trivedi |
| Haryana | B. R. Mahajan |
| Himachal Pradesh | Ashok Sharma |
| Jammu & Kashmir | D. C. Raina |
| Jharkhand | Rajiv Ranjan |
| Karnataka | Shashi Kiran Shetty |
| Kerala | K. Gopalakrishna Kurup |
| Madhya Pradesh | Prashant Singh |
| Maharashtra | Dr. Birendra Saraf |
| Manipur | Naorem Kumarjit Singh |
| Meghalaya | Amit Kumar |
| Mizoram | Diganta Das |
| Nagaland | Vikramjit Banerjee |
| Odisha | Jyoti Prakash Pattnaik |
| Punjab | Gurminder Singh |
| Rajasthan | Shri M.S. Singhvi |
| Sikkim | Vivek Kohli |
| Tamil Nadu | P. S. Raman |
| Telangana | A. Sudarshan Reddy |
| Tripura | Siddhartha Shankar Dey |
| Uttar Pradesh | Ajay Kumar Mishra |
| Uttarakhand | S. N. Babulkar |
| West Bengal | kishor Dutta |
See also※
References※
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