Kamla Beniwal (Hindi:कमला बेनीवाल) is the Governor of the Indian state of Gujarat. Before this she was the Governor of Tripura. She is a senior congress politician from Rajasthan state. She served as minister in a number of congress ministries in Rajasthan state government. The 83 year old Kamla was first female governor of any North East state.

She was born in the village Gaurir in Jhunjhunu district.

At the age of 27, she was the first female minister in Rajasthan. Kamla has been a minister in Congress governments in Rajasthan since 1954, holding many portfolios, including home, education and agriculture. She was the revenue minister in the Ashok Gehlot government.

The Lokayukta is a state-level body for checking on actions of the government, particularly corruption. in August 2011, Ms Beniwal appointed Justice R A Mehta as the Lokayukta under The governor took the action under Section 3 of the Gujarat Lokayukta Act, 1986, which gives the Governor the right to appoint Lokayukta without consulting the government, in cases of extreme delay. Beniwal bypassed the Narendra Modi government of Gujarat, who had been sitting on the matter of appointing an Lokayukta (ombudsman) since 2004.

Narendra Damodardas Modi (Gujarati: નરેન્દ્ર મોદી; born 17 September 1950) is the current Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat. Born in a middle class family in Vadnagar, he was the third of six children born to Damodardas Mulchand Modi and his wife Heeraben. He has been a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since childhood also having interest in politics since adolescence. He holds a master's degree in political science. In 1998, he was chosen by L. K. Advani, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to direct the election campaign in Gujarat as well as Himachal Pradesh.

He became Chief Minister of Gujarat in October 2001, promoted to the office at a time when his predecessor Keshubhai Patel had resigned, following the defeat of BJP in the by-elections. His tenure as chief minister of Gujarat began on 7 October 2001, and he is the longest serving Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat. In July 2007 he became the longest serving Chief Minister in Gujarat's history when he had been in power for 2063 days continuously. He was elected again for a third term on 23 December 2007 in the state elections, which he had cast as a "referendum on his rule".