Tricks to Remember States and Governors

We all know the importance of the General Awareness Section in the Mains exams. Static GK is, in turn, one of the most important constituents of the General Awareness Section. The Mains season is just around the corner and one needs to be thoroughly prepared with the static GK part to ace the exam. Having discussed a few tricks to remember States and their CMs in the previous blog, we have come up with some important tricks to remember States and their governors, in this new blog.

Governor is the constitutional head of a state in India. But he/she must act on the advice of the popularly elected council of ministers, headed by the CM.

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Tricks to Remember States and Their Governors

The following table enlists the 28 states and their respective governors. Alongside are the tricks that you can to use to remember them easily:

State	Governor	Trick
Andhra Pradesh	Biswabhushan Harichandan	Biswa (Biswabhushan) and (Andhra) Chandan’s (Harichandan) show is funny
Arunachal Pradesh	B. D. Mishra	Arun (Arunachal) joined Datta (Dattatrey) in Himachal to form a band (Bandaru) named BDM (BD Mishra)
Himachal Pradesh	Bandaru Dattatrey
Bihar	Phagu Chauhan	Sreedhar (Sreedharan) gave a pill (Pillai) to Mr. Zoram (Mizoram) before leaving with Phagu for Bihar
Mizoram	P S Sreedharan Pillai
Kerala	Arif Mohammad Khan	Najma gave a lot of money (Manipur) to Arif in Kerala to settle their case
Manipur	Najma Heptulla
Chhattisgarh	Anusuiya Uikey	Key (Uikey) to garh (Chhattisgarh) was in Anu’s (Anusuiya) hat (Chhattisgarh)
Goa	Bhagat Singh Koshyari	Bhagat was not shy (Koshyari) to go (Goa) to Maharashtra
Maharashtra	Bhagat Singh Koshyari	Bhagat was not shy (Koshyari) to go (Goa) to Maharashtra
Jharkhand	Draupadi Murmu	Draupadi carried in hand (Jharkhand) her bhai (Vajubhai) Karna (Karnataka)
Karnataka	Vajubhai Vala
Uttar Pradesh	Anandiben Patel	Anandi (Anandiben) went UP (Uttar Pradesh) to Daya (Madhya) to receive a pat (Patel)
Madhya Pradesh	Anandiben Patel
Gujarat	Acharya Devvrat	From Gujarat, Dev (Devvrat) and Disha (Odisha) went to see Ganesh (Ganeshi Lal)
Odisha	Ganeshi Lal
Uttarakhand	Baby Rani Maurya	Ravi was present at the gala (Nagaland) along with Rani and their baby Tara (Uttarakhand)
Nagaland	R. N. Ravi
Assam	Jagdish Mukhi	Sam’s (Assam) dish (Jagdish) had a bad (Badnore) smell, so VP Singh took a jab (Punjab) at it
Punjab	V. P. Singh Badnore
Haryana	Satyadev Narayan Arya	Ryan (Haryana) and Rayan (Narayan) were the true (Satya) friends of Arya
Rajasthan	Kalraj Mishra	Raja (Rajasthan) Kal (Kalraj) really likes (Malik) Megha (Meghalaya)
Meghalaya	Satyapal Malik
Tamil Nadu	Banwarilal Purohit	Ramesh’s trip (Tripura) to Tamil Nadu was banned (Banwarilal) by Purohit
Tripura	Ramesh Bais
Telangana	T. Soundararajan	Language (Telangana) is made of various sounds (Soundararajan)
Sikkim	Ganga Prasad	Kim (Sikkim) took a dip (Jagdip) in the Ganga in Bengal
West Bengal	Jagdip Dhankhar	Kim (Sikkim) took a dip (Jagdip) in the Ganga in Bengal