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.
StateAdvocate General
Andhra PradeshSubrahmanyam Sriram
Arunachal PradeshNilay Ananda Dutta
AssamRamesh Chandra Borpatra Gohain
BiharLalit Kishore
ChhattisgarhSatish Chandra Verma
GoaDevidas Pangam
GujaratKamal Trivedi
HaryanaBaldev Raj Mahajan
Himachal PradeshAshok Sharma
JharkhandRajiv Ranjan
KarnatakaPrabhuling K. Navadagi
KeralaC. P. Sudhakara Prasad
Madhya PradeshShashank Shekhar
MaharashtraAshutosh Kumbhakoni
ManipurNaorem Kumarjit Singh
MeghalayaAmit Kumar
MizoramBiswajeet Deb
NagalandK. N. Balagopal
OdishaAshok Parija
PunjabAtul Nanda
RajasthanMahendra Singh Singhvi
SikkimVivek Kohli
Tamil NaduVijay Narayan
TelanganaB. S. Prasad
TripuraArun Kanti Bhowmik
Uttar PradeshRaghvendra Singh
UttarakhandS. N. Babulkar
West BengalKishore Dutta