Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh

Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
Incumbent Vishnu Deo Sai since 13 December 2023
Government of Chhattisgarh
Style	The Honourable (Formal) Mr./Mrs. Chief Minister (Informal)
Type	Head of Government
Status	Leader of the Executive
Abbreviation	CM
Member of	Cabinet Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Reports to	Governor of Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Residence	B-3, C.M. House, Civil Lines, Raipur [1]
Seat	Mahanadi Bhawan, Naya Raipur
Nominator	Members of the Government of Chhattisgarh in Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Appointer	Governor of Chhattisgarh by convention based on appointees ability to command confidence in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Term length	At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits. [2]
Inaugural holder	Ajit Jogi
Formation	1 November 2000 (24 years ago) (2000-11-01)
Deputy	Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
Salary	₹230,000 (US$2,700)/monthly ₹2,760,000 (US$33,000)/annually
Website	Official website

The Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh is the chief executive of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. In accordance with the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the legislative assembly, the state's 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 the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits. ^[2]

Four people have served as the state's chief minister since Chhattisgarh's formation on 1 November 2000 as a result of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000. ^[3] The first was Ajit Jogi of the Indian National Congress. He was succeeded in 2003 by Raman Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served three consecutive five-year terms. Third person to serve in the office was Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel ,who served from 2018 to 2023, was succeeded by Vishnudeo Sai, the current incumbent, following the resounding victory ^[4] of Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2023 elections.

List

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 merged the states of Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, and Bhopal were merged into Madhya Pradesh and the Marathi-speaking southern region Vidarbha, which included Nagpur, was ceded to Bombay. In November 2000, as part of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act the southeastern portion of the state was split off to form the new state of Chhattisgarh.

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure			Assembly (election)	Party [a]
1		Ajit Jogi	Marwahi	1 November 2000	7 December 2003	3 years, 34 days	1st/Interim [b] (1998 election)	Indian National Congress
2		Raman Singh	Dongargaon	7 December 2003	11 December 2008	15 years, 10 days	2nd (2003 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
			Rajnandgaon	12 December 2008	11 December 2013		3rd (2008 election)
				12 December 2013	17 December 2018		4th (2013 election)
3		Bhupesh Baghel	Patan	17 December 2018	13 December 2023	4 years, 361 days	5th (2018 election)	Indian National Congress
4		Vishnu Deo Sai	Kunkuri	13 December 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 170 days	6th (2023 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party

Statistics

Fraction of time of holding CMO by party (as of December 2024)

1. Bharatiya Janata Party (80%)
2. Indian National Congress (20%)

#	Chief Minister	Party		Term of office
				Longest continuous term	Total duration of chief ministership
1	Raman Singh		BJP	15 years, 10 days	15 years, 10 days
2	Bhupesh Baghel		INC	4 years, 361 days	4 years, 361 days
3	Ajit Jogi		INC	3 years, 34 days	3 years, 34 days
4	Vishnu Deo Sai		BJP*	1 year, 170 days	1 year, 170 days

Time period

Notes

1. This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
2. The first Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh was constituted by the MLAs elected in the 1998 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, whose constituencies were in the newly formed Chhattisgarh. ^[5]

References

1. "Cabinet". Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. Archived from the original on 9 July 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
2. Durga Das Basu (1960). Introduction to the Constitution of India. Nagpur: LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa. pp. 241, 245. ISBN   978-81-8038-559-9.
3. Venkatesan, V. (1 September 2000). "Chhattisgarh: quite arrival". Frontline . Vol. 17, no. 17. Raipur. Archived from the original on 3 August 2019.
4. "What caused the stunning turnaround in Chhattisgarh?". The Times of India. 4 December 2023. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 14 December 2023.
5. "The Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2000" (PDF). 2000. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2019.