Ramesh Bais

18 February 2023 – 29 July 2024Governor of Maharashtra

14 July 2021 – 12 February 2023Governor of Jharkhand

29 July 2019 – 13 July 2021Governor of Tripura

Ramesh Bais
Ramesh Bais in 2024

Governor of Indian states
In office 29 July 2019 – 29 July 2024
18 February 2023 – 29 July 2024	Governor of Maharashtra
14 July 2021 – 12 February 2023	Governor of Jharkhand
29 July 2019 – 13 July 2021	Governor of Tripura
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 10 May 1996 – 24 May 2019
Preceded by	Vidya Charan Shukla
Succeeded by	Sunil Kumar Soni
Constituency	Raipur
In office 1 December 1989 – 21 June 1991
Preceded by	Keyur Bhushan
Succeeded by	Vidya Charan Shukla
Constituency	Raipur
Union Minister of Environment & Forests
MoS Independent Charge
In office 9 January 2004 – 23 May 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	T. R. Baalu
Succeeded by	Andimuthu Raja
Union Minister of Mines Government of India
MoS Independent Charge
In office 29 January 2003 – 8 January 2004
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by	Uma Bharti
Succeeded by	Mamata Banerjee
Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Government of India
In office 30 September 2000 – 28 January 2003
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers Government of India
In office 13 October 1999 – 30 September 2000
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Union Minister of State for Steel and Mines Government of India
In office March 1998 – October 1999
Prime Minister	Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Personal details
Born	(1947-08-02) 2 August 1947 (age 78) Raipur, Central Provinces and Berar, British India (now in Chhattisgarh, India)
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Rambai Bais
Children	3
Website	rajbhavan-maharashtra.gov.in

Ramesh Bais (born 2 August 1947) is an Indian politician who served as the 23rd Governor of Maharashtra from 2023 to 2024. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bais has held a positions including, Governor of Jharkhand and Tripura, and served as a Union Minister in the government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He was a seven-term member of the Lok Sabha, representing the Raipur constituency.

Bais was born on 2 August 1947 in Raipur, Central Provinces and Berar, British India (now in Chhattisgarh, India) to Khomlal Bais. He completed his Higher Secondary education from B.S.E., Bhopal. He married Rambai Bais on 1 May 1968. They have a son and two daughters. Bais is an agriculturist by profession.^[1]^[2]

Political career

Bais was first elected to Municipal Corporation of Raipur in 1978. He won 1980 MP Assembly election from Mandir Hasod Constituency but lost 1985 Assembly election to his Congress rival Satyanarayan Sharma. He was elected for the first time to the Indian parliament as a member of the 9th Lok Sabha from Raipur in 1989 and was re-elected consecutively from 1996 to 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Lok Sabha.

Positions held

Sources^[2]

State level

1978: Councillor, Municipal Corporation, Raipur
1980-85: Member, Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
1980-82: Member, Estimates Committee, Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
1982-85 : Member, Library Committee, Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
1982-88 : Pradesh Mantri, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), Madhya Pradesh

National level

1989 : Elected to 9th Lok Sabha
1989-90 & 1994–96 : Vice-President, B.J.P., Madhya Pradesh
1990-97 : Member, Public Accounts Committee Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Steel and Mines
1993 onwards : Member, National Executive, B.J.P.
1994 onwards : Member, Executive Committee, B.J.P., Madhya Pradesh
1996 : Elected to 11th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
- Member, Committee on Agriculture
- Member, Committee on Petitions
- Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Industry
1998 : Elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)

Union Minister

Served as Union Minister of State in Second and Third Vajpayee ministry holding various portfolios such as Steel, Mines, Chemicals and Fertilizers, Information and Broadcasting, and also Minister of State (Independent charge) for Mines and Environment & Forests.

1998-99 : Union Minister of State, Steel and Mines
1999 : Elected to 13th Lok Sabha (4th term)
13 October 1999 - 30 September 2000: Union Minister of State, Chemicals and Fertilizers
30 September 2000 - 29 January 2003: Union Minister of State, Information and Broadcasting
29 January 2003 - 8 January 2004: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Mines
9 January 2004 - May 2004 : Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Environment & Forests
2004 : Elected to 14th Lok Sabha (5th term)
- Member, Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas
- Member, Committee on Public Accounts
- Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Power
- Member, Hindi Salahakar Samiti, Ministry of Coal and Mines
5 August 2007 onwards : Member, Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas
1 May 2008 : Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
2009 : Elected to 15th Lok Sabha (6th term)
2009-2014 : Chief whip in Lok Sabha (BJP)
6 August 2009 : Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
31 August 2009 : Member, Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas
23 September 2009 : Member, Rules Committee
1 May 2010 : Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
2014 : Elected to 16th Lok Sabha (7th term)
Sep. 2014 - May 2019 : Appointed Chairman, Standing Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment

Governor

July, 2019 – July 2021 : Appointed the 18th Governor of Tripura^[3]
14 July 2021 – 12 February 2023 : Appointed the 10th Governor of Jharkhand^[4]
12 February : Appointed the 23rd Governor of Maharashtra by the President of India in February 2023 following the resignation of the preceding governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.^[5]

Tenure as governor

As the 10th Governor of Jharkhand, Bais had several noticeable tensions with the state government led by Hemant Soren during his tenure.^[6] One of the most prominent issues was his failure to disclose the Election Commission's recommendation on Soren's continuation as MLA over a mining case.^[7] Bais also criticised the work culture in Jharkhand and flagged law and order as a significant problem. He returned several bills to the state government citing various loopholes, including bills passed by the government under the leadership of Hemant Soren, and the formation of the Tribal Advisory Council. Bais claimed he works according to the Constitution for the betterment of the state and stated that his successor would decide the fate of pending Bills and unfinished issues.^[8]^[9]

v t e Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (India)
Authorities	Central Zoo Authority of India National Biodiversity Authority National Tiger Conservation Authority
Agencies	Andaman & Nicobar Islands Forest and Plantation Development Corporation Animal Welfare Board of India Botanical Survey of India Central Pollution Control Board Forest Survey of India Zoological Survey of India Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
Institutions	Centre for Environment Education Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education Indian Institute of Forest Management Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management National Forest Academy Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding National Institute of Animal Welfare National Museum of Natural History Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute Wildlife Institute of India
Tribunal	National Green Tribunal
Legislation	Indian Forest Act, 1927 National Green Tribunal Act Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2002
Special projects	Cheetah reintroduction in India Project Dolphin (India) Project Elephant Project Tiger
Civil Service	Indian Forest Service
Minister	Rajiv Gandhi Bhajan Lal Ziaur Ansari V. P. Singh Nilamani Routray Atal Bihari Vajpayee Jai Narain Saifuddin Soz H. D. Deve Gowda Suresh Prabhu T. R. Baalu Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ramesh Bais A. Raja Manmohan Singh M. Veerappa Moily Harsh Vardhan Prakash Javdekar Bhupender Yadav (incumbent)
Minister of state	Vir Sen Ziaur Ansari^ Sumati Oraon Maneka Gandhi^ Kamal Nath^ Rajesh Pilot^ Jai Narain Babulal Marandi Dilip Singh Judeo Ramesh Bais Namo Narain Meena S. Regupathy Jairam Ramesh^ Jayanthi Natarajan^ Prakash Javdekar^ Anil Madhav Dave^ Mahesh Sharma Babul Supriyo Kirti Vardhan Singh (incumbent)
^independent charge

v t e Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Chhattisgarh State
GE 2014	Dinesh Kashyap Lakhan Lal Sahu Tamradhwaj Sahu Kamla Patle Vikram Usendi Dr Banshilal Mahto Chandu Lal Sahu Vishnu Deo Sai Ramesh Bais Abhishek Singh Kamalbhan Singh Marabi
15th LS members 17th LS members Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from States AP AR AS BR CT GA GJ HR HP JH KA KL MP MH ML MN MZ NL OR PB RJ SK TG TN TR UP UT WB Union territories AN CH DH DL JK LA LD PY

v t e Bharatiya Janata Party
Party presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) L. K. Advani (1986–91, 1993–98, 2004–06) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–2020) J. P. Nadda (2020–26) Nitin Nabin (2026–present)
Current vice presidents	Annpurna Devi A. P. Abdullakutty Baijayant Panda Bharti Shiyal D. K. Aruna Lata Usendi Laxmikant Bajpai M. Chuba Ao Rekha Verma Saroj Pandey Saudan Singh Tariq Mansoor Vasundhara Raje
Prime ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1996; 1998–2004) Narendra Modi (2014–present)
Deputy prime ministers	L. K. Advani (2002–2004)
Other prominent leaders	Anandiben Patel Arjun Munda Arun Jaitley B. C. Khanduri B. S. Yediyurappa Babulal Gaur Babulal Marandi Bandaru Dattatreya Banwarilal Purohit Bhagat Singh Koshyari Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Bhavurao Deshpande Biswabhusan Harichandan C. P. Radhakrishnan Chandrakant Bacchu Patil D. V. Sadananda Gowda Devendra Fadnavis Dilip Ghosh Draupadi Murmu Gulab Chand Kataria Himanta Biswa Sarma Hriday Narayan Dikshit Jagadish Shettar Jagdambika Pal Jagdeep Dhankhar Jamyang Tsering Namgyal K. Annamalai Kalraj Mishra Kalyan Singh Keshubhai Patel Madan Lal Khurana Manohar Parrikar Manoj Sinha Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Nirmala Sitharaman Nityanand Swami Piyush Goyal Prem Kumar Dhumal Ram Naik Ram Nath Kovind Ram Prakash Gupta Ramesh Pokhriyal Ravi Shankar Prasad Sahib Singh Verma Sarbananda Sonowal Shanta Kumar Smriti Irani Sunder Lal Patwa Suresh Prabhu Sushil Kumar Modi Sushma Swaraj Suvendu Adhikari Tamilisai Soundararajan Trivendra Singh Rawat Uma Bharti Vajubhai Vala Yogi Adityanath
Current chief ministers	Bhajan Lal Sharma Bhupendrabhai Patel Devendra Fadnavis Himanta Biswa Sarma Manik Saha Mohan Charan Majhi Mohan Yadav Nayab Singh Saini Pema Khandu Pramod Sawant Pushkar Singh Dhami Rekha Gupta Vishnu Deo Sai Yogi Adityanath Yumnam Khemchand Singh Samrat Choudhary
Current deputy chief ministers	Arun Sao Brajesh Pathak Chowna Mein Diya Kumari Harsh Sanghavi Jagdish Devda Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo Keshav Prasad Maurya Nemcha Kipgen Pravati Parida Prem Chand Bairwa Rajendra Shukla Samrat Chaudhary Vijay Kumar Sinha Vijay Sharma Yanthungo Patton
Current national spokespersons	Anil Baluni Aparajita Sarangi C. R. Kesavan Gaurav Bhatia Gopal Krishna Agarwal Guruprakash Paswan Heena Gavit Iqbal Singh Lalpura K. K. Sharma Nalin Kohli R. P. Singh Rajeev Chandrasekhar Rajiv Pratap Rudy Raju Bista Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Sambit Patra Sanjay Mayukh Sanju Verma Sudhanshu Trivedi Syed Zafar Islam Syed Shahnawaz Hussain Tom Vadakkan
Current general secretaries	Arun Singh Dr. Radha Mohan Das Agarwal Dushyant Kumar Gautam Tarun Chugh Vinod Tawde B. L. Santhosh (Organisation) Shiv Prakash (Organisation)
Current national secretaries	Alka Gujar Anil Antony Arvind Menon Kamakhya Prasad Tasa Manjinder Singh Sirsa Narendra Singh Tomar Pankaja Munde Om Prakash Dhankar Om Prakash Dhurve Rituraj Sinha Surendra Singh Nagar Vijaya Kishore Rahatkar
Political wings	National Executive Committee Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP IT Cell BJP Mahila Morcha State Units State Presidents
Related organisations	Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Swadeshi Jagaran Manch Vishva Hindu Parishad
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