SUPREME COURT, GOVERNOR, CHIEF MINISTER

SUPREME COURT

1.   Supreme Court of India was inaugurated on January 28, 1950 (Under the Government of India act of 1935).
2. At Present, the Supreme Court consists of thirty-one Judges (one Chief justice and thirty other judges).
3. In February2009, the center notified an increase in the number of Supreme Court judges from twenty-six to thirty-one, including chief justice of India.
4. The Parliament has increased this number of other judges progressively to ten in 1956, to thirteen in 1960, to seventeen in 19777 and to twenty-five in 1986.

APPOINTEMENT OF JUDGES:

• The judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the president. The chief justice is appointed by the president after consultation with such judge of the Supreme Court & high Courts as he deems necessary. 
• The other judges are appointed by president after consultation with the chief justice and such other judges of the Supreme Court and high Court as he deems necessary. The consultation with the chief justice is obligatory in the case of appointment of a judge other than Chief justice.

 APPOINTEMENT OF Chief Justice:

• From 1950 to 1973, the practice has been to appoint the senior most judge of the Supreme Court as the Chief justice of India. In 1973 A N Ray was appointed as Chief Justice of India by superseding three senior most judges.
• Again in 1977, M U Beg was appointed Chief Justice of India by superseding the then senior most judges.
• In1993, Supreme Court ruled that the senior most judge of Supreme Court should alone be appointed to the office of the chief justice of India.

Qualifications of Judges:

1 .He should be a citizen of India.

 2. He should be a judge of a High Court (or high courts in succession for five year).

3. He should have been an advocate of High Court (or High Courts in succession) for ten years.

4. He should be a distinguished jurist in the opinion of the president.

Removal of Judges:

A Judge of the Supreme Court can be removed from his Office by an order of President.  The President   can issue the removal order only after an address by Parliament has been presented to him in the same session for such removal. The address must be supported by a special majority of each House of Parliament (not less than two-third member house present & voting).  

Power of the Supreme Court:

1. Original Jurisdiction.

2. Writ Jurisdiction.

3. Appellate Jurisdiction.

4. Advisory Jurisdiction.

5. A Court of Record.

6. Power of Judicial Review.

7. Other Powers.

LIST OF CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT:

No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Originating State
01	H. J. Kania	15 August 1947	16 November 1951	Bombay (now Mumbai)
02	M. P. Sastri	16 November 1951	3 January 1954	Madras (now Chennai)
03	Mehr Chand Mahajan	3 January 1954	22 December 1954	Himachal/Lahore/Kashmir
04	B. K. Mukherjea	22 December 1954	31 January 1956	West Bengal
05	Sudhi Ranjan Das	31 January 1956	30 September 1959	West Bengal
06	Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha	30 September 1959	31 January 1964	Bihar
07	P. B. Gajendragadkar	31 January 1964	15 March 1966	Bombay (now Mumbai)
08	A. K. Sarkar	16 March 1966	29 June 1966	West Bengal
09	K. Subba Rao	30 June 1966	11 April 1967	Andhra Pradesh
10	Kailas Nath Wanchoo	12 April 1967	24 February 1968	Uttar Pradesh
11	M. Hidayatullah	25 February 1968	16 December 1970	present Chattisgarh
12	Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah	17 December 1970	21 January 1971	present Gujarat
13	S. M. Sikri	22 January 1971	25 April 1973	Punjab
14	A. N. Ray	25 April 1973	28 January 1977	West Bengal
15	Mirza Hameedullah Beg	29 January 1977	21 February 1978	Uttar Pradesh
16	Y. V. Chandrachud	22 February 1978	11 July 1985	Bombay (now Mumbai)
17	P. N. Bhagwati	12 July 1985	20 December 1986	Bombay (now Mumbai)
18	R. S. Pathak	21 December 1986	6 June 1989	Uttar Pradesh
19	E. S. Venkataramiah	19 June 1989	17 December 1989	Mysore (now Karnataka)
20	S. Mukharji	18 December 1989	25 September 1990	West Bengal
21	Ranganath Misra	25 September 1990	24 November 1991	Orissa
22	Kamal Narain Singh	25 November 1991	12 December 1991	Uttar Pradesh
23	M. H. Kania	13 December 1991	17 November 1992	Maharashtra
24	Lalit Mohan Sharma	18 November 1992	11 February 1993	Bihar
25	M. N. Venkatachaliah	12 February 1993	24 October 1994	Karnataka
26	A. M. Ahmadi	25 October 1994	24 March 1997	Gujarat
27	J. S. Verma	25 March 1997	18 January 1998	Madhya Pradesh
28	M. M. Punchhi	18 January 1998	9 October 1998	Punjab
29	A. S. Anand	10 October 1998	1 November 2001	Jammu & Kashmir
30	S. P. Bharucha	2 November 2001	6 May 2002	Maharashtra
31	B. N. Kirpal	6 May 2002	11 November 2002	Delhi
32	G. B. Pattanaik	11 November 2002	19 December 2002	Orissa
33	V. N. Khare	19 December 2002	2 May 2004	Uttar Pradesh
34	S. Rajendra Babu	2 May 2004	1 June 2004	Karnataka
35	R. C. Lahoti	1 June 2004	1 November 2005	Uttar Pradesh
36	Y. K. Sabharwal	1 November 2005	14 January 2007	Delhi
37	K. G. Balakrishnan	14 January 2007	11 May 2010	Kerala
38	S. H. Kapadia	12 May 2010 (incumbent)	Till Date	Maharashtra

GOVERNOR

• Governor is the chief executive head of the state, he act as agent of central government.

•  The 7^th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1956 facilitated the appointment of the same person as a governor for two or more states.

• The State executive consist of governor, the chief minister, the council of minister and the advocate general of the state. There is no vice-governor in the state like that of Vice-President at the centre.

APPOINTMENT OF GOVERNOR:

1. The Governor is neither directly elected by people nor indirectly elected by a specially constituted electoral college as is the case with the president.
2. He is appointed by the president by warrant under his hand and seal.

QUALIFICATION:

1. He should be citizen of India.

2. He should have completed the age of 35 years.

Additionally, two conventions have also developed in this regard over the years.

a). He should be outsider, that is, he should belong to that state where he is appointed.

b).While appointing governor president require to consult the chief minister.

POWER AND FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNOR:

1. Executive powers.

2. Legislative powers.

3. Financial powers.

4. Judicial powers.

List of Governors of AP:

since in 1953,The official residence is of the Governor is Raj Bhavan, situated in Hyderabad, the state capital.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office
1	Chandulal M. Trivedi	1 October 1953	1 August 1957
2	Bhim Sen Sachar	1 August 1957	8 September 1962
3	Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh	8 September 1962	4 May 1964
4	Pattom A. Thanu Pillai	4 May 1964	11 April 1968
5	Khandubhai Kasanji Desai	11 April. 1968	25 january, 1975
6	S. Obul Reddy	25 January 1975	10 January 1976
7	Mohanlal Sukhadia	10 January 1976	16 June 1976
8	R.D. Bhandare	16 June 1976	17 February 1977
9	Justice B.J. Diwan	17 February 1977	5 May 1977
10	Sharda Mukherjee	5 May 1977	15 August 1978
11	K.C. Abraham	15 August 1978	15 August 1983
12	Thakur Ram Lal	15 August 1983	29 August 1984
13	Shankar Dayal Sharma	29 August 1984	26 November 1985
14	Kumudben Manishankar Joshi	26 November 1985	7 February 1990
15	Krishan Kant	7 February 1990	22 August 1997
16	G. Ramanujam	22 August 1997	24 November 1997
17	C. Rangarajan	24 November 1997	3 January 2003
18	Surjit Singh Barnala	3 January 2003	4 November 2004
19	Sushil Kumar Shinde	4 November 2004	29 January 2006
20	Rameshwar Thakur	29 January 2006	22 August 2007
21	Narayan Dutt Tiwari	22 August 2007	27 December 2009
22	E. S. L. Narasimhan	27 December 2009	Incumbent

                                   

                                       CHIEF MINISTER

Chief Ministers of Hyderabad state

Hyderabad state included 9 Telugu districts of Telangana, 4 Kannada districts in Gulberga division & 4 Marathi districts in Aurangabad division. Rangareddy district was carved out of Hyderabad district of Telangana in 1978. Now Telangana has 10 districts.

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Party	Origin region	Birthplace	Days in office
1	Vellodi Mullath Kadingi	26 January 1950	6 March 1952	INC	Kerala	-	770
2	Dr.Burgula Ramakrishna Rao[1]	6 March 1952	31 October 1956	INC	Telangana	Mahbubnagar	1855

Chief Ministers of Andhra state

Andhra State consisted of Kosta and Rayalaseema regions. This state was carved out of Madras state in 1953.

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Party	Origin region	Birthplace	Days in office
1	Tanguturi Prakasam[2][3]	1 October 1953	27 March 1955	INC	Kosta	Prakasam	631
2	Bezawada Gopala Reddy[2]	28 March 1955	1 November 1956	INC	Kosta	Nellore	584

= Chief Minister elected from Indian National Congress (INC)

= Chief Minister elected from Telugu Desam Party (TDP)

 

Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh

In 1956, Gulbarga and Aurangabad divisions of Hyderabad state were merged with Mysore state and Bombay state respectively. Remaining portion of Hyderabad state, Telangana, was merged with Andhra state to form Andhra Pradesh state.

#	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office	Party	Origin region	Birthplace (district)	Days in office
1	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy[4]		1 Nov 1956	11 Jan 1960	INC	Rayalaseema	Anantapur	1167
2	Damodaram Sanjivayya		11 Jan 1960	12 Mar 1962	INC	Rayalaseema	Kurnool	790
-	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (second time)		12 March 1962	20 February 1964	INC	Rayalaseema	Anantapur	719
3	Kasu Brahmananda Reddy		21 February 1964	30 September 1971	INC	Kosta	Guntur	2777
4	Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao[5]		30 September 1971	10 January 1973	INC	Telangana	Karimnagar	468
President's Rule (11 January 1973 – 10 December 1973. Period: 335 Days)[6]
5	Jalagam Vengala Rao		10 December 1973	6 March 1978	INC	Andhra/Telangana	*East Godavari/Khammam[7]	1547
6	Marri Chenna Reddy		6 March 1978	11 October 1980	INC	Telangana	Ranga Reddy	950
7	Tanguturi Anjaiah [8]		11 October 1980	24 February 1982	INC	Telangana	Medak	501
8	Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy		24 February 1982	20 September 1982	INC	Kosta	Guntur	208
9	Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy		20 September 1982	9 January 1983	INC	Rayalaseema	Kurnool	111
10	Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao		9 January 1983	16 August 1984	TDP	Kosta	Krishna	585
11	Nadendla Bhaskara Rao		16 August 1984	16 September 1984	TDP (faction[which?])	Kosta	Guntur	31
-	Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (second time)		16 September 1984	2 December 1989	TDP	Kosta	Krishna	1903
-	Marri Chenna Reddy (second time)		3 December 1989	17 December 1990	INC	Telangana	Ranga Reddy	379
12	Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy		17 December 1990	9 October 1992	INC	Kosta	Nellore	662
-	Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy (second time)		9 October 1992	12 December 1994	INC	Rayalaseema	Kurnool	794
-	Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (third time)		12 December 1994	1 September 1995	TDP	Kosta	Krishna	263
13	Nara Chandrababu Naidu[9]		1 September 1995	14 May 2004	TDP	Rayalaseema	Chittoor	3378
14	Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhar Reddy		14 May 2004	2 September 2009	INC	Rayalaseema	Kadapa	1938
15	Konijeti Rosaiah		03 September 2009[	24 November 2010	INC	Kosta	Guntur	519
16	Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy		25 November 2010	-	INC	Rayalaseema	Chittor	72