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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 -
Assam Devajit Lon Saikia
Bihar Lalit Kishore
Chhattisgarh Satish Chandra Verma
Goa Devidas Pangam
Gujarat Kamal Trivedi
Haryana Baldev Raj Mahajan
Himachal Pradesh Ashok Sharma
Jammu & Kashmir D.C. Raina
Jharkhand Rajiv Ranjan
Karnataka Prabhuling K. Navadagi
Kerala K Gopala Krishna Kurup
Madhya Pradesh Purushaindra Kaurav
Maharashtra Ashutosh Kumbhakoni
Manipur Naorem Kumarjit Singh
Meghalaya Amit Kumar
Mizoram Diganta Das
Nagaland K. N. Balagopal
Odisha Ashok Parija
Punjab Atul Nanda
Rajasthan Mahendra Singh Singhvi
Sikkim Vivek Kohli
Tamil Nadu R. Shunmugasundaram
Telangana B. S. Prasad
Tripura Siddhartha Shankar Dey
Uttar Pradesh Raghuvendra Singh
Uttarakhand S. N. Babulkar
West Bengal Gopal Mukherjee

See also