Ramesh Bais

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Ramesh Bais
Ramesh Bais in 2024
23rd Governor of Maharashtra
In office 18 February 2023 – 31 July 2024
Chief Minister	Eknath Shinde
Dy Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis Ajit Pawar (since 3 July 2023)
Preceded by	Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Succeeded by	C. P. Radhakrishnan
9th Governor of Jharkhand
In office 14 July 2021 – 12 February 2023
Chief Minister	Hemant Soren
Preceded by	Droupadi Murmu
Succeeded by	C. P. Radhakrishnan
18th Governor of Tripura
In office 29 July 2019 – 13 July 2021
Chief Minister	Biplab Kumar Deb
Deputy CM	Jishnu Dev Varma
Preceded by	Kaptan Singh Solanki
Succeeded by	Satyadev Narayan Arya
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 1996–2019
Preceded by	Vidya Charan Shukla
Succeeded by	Sunil Kumar Soni
Constituency	Raipur, Chhattisgarh
In office 1989–1991
Preceded by	Keyur Bhushan
Succeeded by	Vidya Charan Shukla
Constituency	Raipur, Madhya Pradesh
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 77) Raipur, Central Provinces and Berar, British India (now in Chhattisgarh, India)
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Rambai Bais
Children	3
Residences	Raj Bhavan, Mumbai, India (official residence) New Delhi, India (personal residence) Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India (personal residence)
Website	rajbhavan-maharashtra.gov.in

Ramesh Bais (born 2 August 1947) is an Indian politician and was the governor of Maharashtra from 2023 to 2024. He also served as the governor of Jharkhand from 2021 to 2023 and the governor of Tripura from 2019 to 2021.^[1] He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has served as union minister of state (Independent Charge) for environment and forests in the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Bais has been elected seven times to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, representing the Raipur constituency, including serving as a member of the 9th Lok Sabha (1989) and 11th to 16th Lok Sabha (1996–2019).