List of current Indian chief ministers

Several chief ministers pose with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December 2014.
Indian states according to party of their chief minister
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In the Republic of India, a chief minister is the head of government of each of twenty-nine states and two union territories (Delhi and Puducherry). According to the Constitution of India, at the state-level, the governor is de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the state legislative assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given he has the assembly's confidence, the chief minister's term is usually for a maximum of five years; there are no limits to the number of terms he/she can serve.[1]

Of the thirty-one incumbents, four are women—Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu, Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu and Kashmir, and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Serving since December 1994 (for 21 years, 349 days), Sikkim's Pawan Kumar Chamling has the longest incumbency. Parkash Singh Badal (b. 1927) of Punjab is the oldest chief minister,[2] while Arunachal Pradesh's Pema Khandu (b. 1979) is the youngest.[3] Nine incumbents belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party, seven to the Indian National Congress and two to the Communist Party of India (Marxist); no other party has more than one chief minister in office.

Current Indian chief ministers

Colour key for parties
State
(past chief ministers)		 Name[4] Portrait Took office
(tenure length)		 Party[lower-alpha 1] Ref
Andhra Pradesh
(list)		 N. Chandrababu Naidu 8 June 2014
(2 years, 170 days)		 Telugu Desam Party [5]
Arunachal Pradesh
(list)		 Pema Khandu – 17 July 2016
(131 days)		 People's Party of Arunachal [6][7]
Assam
(list)		 Sarbananda Sonowal 24 May 2016
(185 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [8]
Bihar
(list)		 Nitish Kumar 22 February 2015
(1 year, 277 days)		 Janata Dal (United) [9]
Chhattisgarh
(list)		 Raman Singh 7 December 2003
(12 years, 354 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [10]
Delhi[lower-alpha 2]
(list)		 Arvind Kejriwal 14 February 2015
(1 year, 285 days)		 Aam Aadmi Party [11]
Goa
(list)		 Laxmikant Parsekar 8 November 2014
(2 years, 17 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [12]
Gujarat
(list)		 Vijay Rupani 7 August 2016
(110 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [13]
Haryana
(list)		 Manohar Lal Khattar 26 October 2014
(2 years, 30 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [14]
Himachal Pradesh
(list)		 Virbhadra Singh 25 December 2012
(3 years, 336 days)		 Indian National Congress [15]
Jammu and Kashmir
(list)		 Mehbooba Mufti 4 April 2016
(235 days)		 Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party [16]
Jharkhand
(list)		 Raghubar Das 28 December 2014
(1 year, 333 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [17]
Karnataka
(list)		 Siddaramaiah 13 May 2013
(3 years, 196 days)		 Indian National Congress [18]
Kerala
(list)		 Pinarayi Vijayan 25 May 2016
(184 days)		 Communist Party of India (Marxist) [19]
Madhya Pradesh
(list)		 Shivraj Singh Chouhan 29 November 2005
(10 years, 362 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [20]
Maharashtra
(list)		 Devendra Fadnavis 31 October 2014
(2 years, 25 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [21]
Manipur
(list)		 Okram Ibobi Singh 2 March 2002
(14 years, 268 days)		 Indian National Congress [22]
Meghalaya
(list)		 Mukul Sangma 20 April 2010
(6 years, 219 days)		 Indian National Congress [23]
Mizoram
(list)		 Lal Thanhawla 7 December 2008
(7 years, 354 days)		 Indian National Congress [24]
Nagaland
(list)		 T. R. Zeliang 24 May 2014
(2 years, 185 days)		 Naga People's Front [25]
Odisha
(list)		 Naveen Patnaik 5 March 2000
(16 years, 265 days)		 Biju Janata Dal [26]
Puducherry[lower-alpha 2]
(list)		 V. Narayanasamy 6 June 2016
(172 days)		 Indian National Congress [27]
Punjab
(list)		 Parkash Singh Badal 1 March 2007
(9 years, 269 days)		 Shiromani Akali Dal [28]
Rajasthan
(list)		 Vasundhara Raje 13 December 2013
(2 years, 348 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [29]
Sikkim
(list)		 Pawan Kumar Chamling 12 December 1994
(21 years, 349 days)		 Sikkim Democratic Front [30]
Tamil Nadu
(list)		 Jayalalithaa 23 May 2015
(1 year, 186 days)		 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam [31]
Telangana
(list)		 K. Chandrashekar Rao 2 June 2014
(2 years, 176 days)		 Telangana Rashtra Samithi [32]
Tripura
(list)		 Manik Sarkar 11 March 1998
(18 years, 259 days)		 Communist Party of India (Marxist) [33]
Uttar Pradesh
(list)		 Akhilesh Yadav 15 March 2012
(4 years, 255 days)		 Samajwadi Party [34]
Uttarakhand
(list)		 Harish Rawat 11 May 2016
(198 days)		 Indian National Congress [35]
West Bengal
(list)		 Mamata Banerjee 20 May 2011
(5 years, 189 days)		 All India Trinamool Congress [36]
  1. ↑ This column names only the chief minister's party. The ministry he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; those are not listed here.
  2. 1 2 Although Delhi and Puducherry each have an elected legislature and a council of ministers (headed by the chief minister), they are officially union territories.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th edition, 2011 reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9.
  2. ↑ Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta. "Bucking the trend". Frontline. Volume 29, issue 6, 24 March – 6 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Meet Pema Khandu: India’s youngest Chief Minister". The Hindu. 17 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Chief Ministers. India.gov.in. Retrieved on 3 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Naidu takes oath as Andhra Pradesh CM". The Hindu. 8 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "Pema Khandu sworn in as Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh". The Hindu. 17 July 2016.
  7. ↑ Ranju Dodum. "Congress loses Arunachal as 43 MLAs join BJP ally". The Hindu. 16 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Sarbananda Sonowal sworn in as first BJP CM of Assam". The Hindu. 24 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Nitish returns as Bihar Chief Minister". The Hindu. 22 February 2015.
  10. ↑ Aarti Dhar. "Raman Singh takes oath". The Hindu. 8 December 2003.
  11. ↑ Smriti Kak Ramachandran, Shubhomoy Sikdar. "Kejriwal promises to make Delhi graft-free in 5 years". The Hindu. 14 February 2015.
  12. ↑ Prakash Kamat. "Parsekar sworn in after revolt fizzles out in Goa". The Hindu. 8 November 2014.
  13. ↑ Mahesh Langa. "Vijay Rupani sworn in; Gujarat Cabinet bears Shah’s stamp". The Hindu. 7 August 2016.
  14. ↑ Sarabjit Pandher. "Khattar sworn in". The Hindu. 26 October 2014.
  15. ↑ "Virbhadra Singh sworn in as CM". The Hindu. 26 December 2012.
  16. ↑ "Mehbooba Mufti sworn in as J&K's first woman CM". The Hindu. 4 April 2016.
  17. ↑ Amarnath Tewary. "Raghuvar Das assumes office as CM". The Hindu. 28 December 2014.
  18. ↑ "Siddaramaiah sworn in as Chief Minister of Karnataka". The Hindu. 13 May 2013.
  19. ↑ C. Gouridasan Nair. "Pinarayi takes charge as Kerala Chief Minister". The Hindu. 25 May 2016.
  20. ↑ "Shivraj Chauhan sworn in Chief Minister". The Hindu. 30 November 2005.
  21. ↑ Priyanka Kakodkar. "Uddhav attends Fadnavis swearing-in". The Hindu. 31 October 2014.
  22. ↑ "SPF stakes claim to form ministry in Manipur". The Hindu. 3 March 2002.
  23. ↑ "Mukul Sangma sworn in as Chief Minister". The Hindu. 21 April 2010.
  24. ↑ "Lal Thanhawla sworn in as Mizoram chief minister". The Times of India. 11 December 2008.
  25. ↑ "Zeliang sworn in as Nagaland CM". The Hindu. 24 May 2014.
  26. ↑ N. Ramdas. "Naveen Govt. installed". The Hindu. 6 March 2000.
  27. ↑ "Puducherry: V Narayanasamy sworn in as Chief Minister". The Indian Express. 6 June 2016.
  28. ↑ "Parkash Singh Badal, 17 Ministers sworn in". The Hindu. 3 March 2007.
  29. ↑ "Vasundhara swearing-in, a show of strength". The Hindu. 13 December 2013.
  30. ↑ "Pawan Chamling to be longest serving Chief Minister". The Hindu. 17 May 2014.
  31. ↑ Meera Srinivasan, Sruthisagar Yamunan. "Jayalalithaa is Tamil Nadu Chief Minister again". The Hindu. 23 May 2015.
  32. ↑ K. Srinivas Reddy. "KCR sworn in; heads cabinet of 11 ministers". The Hindu. 2 June 2014.
  33. ↑ "Manik Sarkar sworn in as Tripura CM". Rediff.com. 11 March 1998.
  34. ↑ "Akhilesh may start off with a small Cabinet". The Hindu. 15 March 2012.
  35. ↑ Krishnadas Rajagopal. "President’s Rule lifted, Rawat to be CM again". The Hindu. 11 May 2016.
  36. ↑ "Mamata, 37 Ministers sworn in". The Hindu. 21 May 2011.

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