Chief Minister of Jharkhand

Chief Minister of Jharkhand
Emblem of Jharkhand
Incumbent Hemant Soren since 4 July 2024 (2024-07-04)
Government of Jharkhand
Style	The Honourable (Formal) Mr. Chief Minister (Informal)
Type	Head of Government
Status	Leader of the Executive
Abbreviation	CM
Member of	Cabinet Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Reports to	Governor of Jharkhand Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Residence	Jinx, Kanke Road, Ranchi
Seat	Chief Minister Secretariat (CMO), Ranchi, Jharkhand
Nominator	Members of the Government of Jharkhand in Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Appointer	Governor of Jharkhand by convention based on appointees ability to command confidence in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Term length	At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for 5 years and is subject to no term limits. [1]
Inaugural holder	Babulal Marandi
Formation	15 November 2000 (24 years ago) (2000-11-15)
Deputy	Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand
Salary	₹272,000 (US$3,200)/monthly ₹3,000,000 (US$35,000)/annually
Website	cm.jharkhand.gov.in

The chief minister of Jharkhand is the chief executive of the Indian state of Jharkhand. 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. ^[1]

Seven people have served as the state's chief minister since Jharkhand's formation on 15 November 2000. ^[2] Half of them, including the inaugural officeholder Babulal Marandi and Arjun Munda, represented the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Hemant Soren, from the JMM, is the longest-serving chief minister. Three chief ministers, Shibu Soren, his son Hemant Soren, and Champai Soren, represented the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). Shibu Soren's first term ended in just ten days, as he could not prove that he had the support of a majority of the house and was forced to resign. The state has also been governed by Madhu Koda, one of the few independents to become the chief minister of any state. ^[3] In between their reigns, the state has also been under President's rule three times. Raghubar Das, of the BJP, was the first non-tribal and first chief minister to complete a full term in the state. Hemant Soren of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is the incumbent chief minister.

List

Prime Ministers of Bihar

Before independence, Bihar was part of the larger Bihar and Orissa province, which was divided into two separate provinces on 1 April 1936. The Government of India Act 1935 introduced a bicameral legislature in Bihar, with a Legislative Assembly and a Legislative Council, headed by the Premier. Shri Krishna Sinha became the first Premier in 1937, leading a government formed by the Indian National Congress. He continued as Bihar’s leader after independence, becoming the first chief minister in 1946. The role of premier was replaced by the chief minister after India's independence in 1947, with Bihar’s political leadership transitioning to a new democratic framework. ^{[4] [5]}

No. [a]	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Party
			Took office	Left office	Tenure
1		Mohammad Yunus	1 April 1937	19 July 1937	109 days	Muslim Independent Party
2		Shri Krishna Sinha	20 July 1937	31 October 1939	2 years, 103 days	Indian National Congress
			23 March 1946	14 August 1947	1 year, 144 days

Key

Colour key for political parties

   Indian National Congress

   Janata Dal (United)

   Rashtriya Janata Dal

   Janata Dal

   Samata Party

   Socialist Party

   Indian National Congress (O)

  N/A (President's rule)

• No.: Incumbent number
• ^§ Assassinated or died in office
• ^RES Resigned
• ^NC Resigned following a no-confidence motion

#	Portrait		Chief Minister (Lifespan) Constituency	Term of office			Election (Term)	Party	Deputy Chief Minister(s) (Term in office)	Government	Appointed by (Governor)
1			Shri Krishna Sinha (1887–1961) Member, Interim Assembly (until 1952) MLA for Basantpur (1952–1957) MLA Sheikhpura (from 1957)	15 August 1947	31 January 1961 [†]	13 years, 169 days	1946 (Interim)	Indian National Congress	Anugrah Narayan Sinha (26 Jan. 1950 – 5 Jul. 1957) Position vacant (5 Jul. 1957 – 31 Jan. 1961)	Shri Krishna I	Jairamdas Daulatram
							1952 (1st)			Shri Krishna II	Madhav Shrihari Aney
							1957 (3rd)			Shri Krishna III	R. R. Diwakar
2			Deep Narayan Singh (1894–1977) MLA for Hajipur	1 February 1961	18 February 1961	17 days			Position vacant (31 Jan. 1961 – 5 Mar. 1967)	Deep Narayan	Zakir Husain
3			Binodanand Jha (1900–1971) MLA for Rajmahal	18 February 1961	2 October 1963	2 years, 226 days				Jha I
							1962 (3rd)			Jha II
4			Krishna Ballabh Sahay (1898–1974) MLA for Patna West	2 October 1963	5 March 1967	3 years, 154 days				Sahay	M. A. Ayyangar
5			Mahamaya Prasad Sinha (1909–1987) MLA for Patna West	5 March 1967	28 January 1968	329 days	1967 (4th)	Jana Kranti Dal	Karpoori Thakur (5 Mar. 1967 – 28 Jan. 1968)	Mahamaya
6			Satish Prasad Singh (1936–2020) MLA for Parbatta	28 January 1968	1 February 1968	4 days		Shoshit Dal	Jagdeo Prasad (28 Jan. 1968 – 1 Feb. 1968)	Satish Prasad	Nityanand Kanungo
7			B. P. Mandal (1918–1982) MLC	1 February 1968	22 March 1968	50 days			Position vacant (1 Feb. 1968 – 29 Jun. 1968)	Mandal
8			Bhola Paswan Shastri (1914–1984) MLA for Korha	22 March 1968	29 June 1968	99 days		Indian National Congress		Shastri I
President's rule was imposed in during the period (29 June 1968 – 26 February 1969)
9			Harihar Singh (1925–1994) MLA for Nayagram	26 February 1969	22 June 1969	116 days	1969 (5th)	Indian National Congress	Position vacant (26 Feb. 1969 – 4 Jul. 1969)	Harihar	Nityanand Kanungo
(8)			Bhola Paswan Shastri (1914–1984) MLA for Korha	22 June 1969	4 July 1969	12 days		Indian National Congress (O)		Shastri II
President's rule was imposed in during the period (6 July 1969 – 16 February 1970)
10			Daroga Prasad Rai (1922–1981) MLA for Parsa	16 February 1970	22 December 1970	309 days	– (5th)	Indian National Congress (R)	Position vacant (16 Feb. 1970 – 2 Jun. 1971)	Rai	Nityanand Kanungo
11			Karpoori Thakur (1924–1988) MLA for Samastipur	22 December 1970	2 June 1971	162 days		Socialist Party		Thakur I
(8)			Bhola Paswan Shastri (1914–1984) MLA for Korha	2 June 1971	9 January 1972	221 days		Indian National Congress (R)	Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav (2 Jun. 1971 – 9 Jan. 1972)	Shastri III	D. K. Barooah
President's rule was imposed in during the period (9 January – 19 March 1972)
12			Kedar Pandey (1920–1982) MLA for Nautan	19 March 1972	2 July 1973	1 year, 105 days	1972 (6th)	Indian National Congress (R)	Position vacant (19 Mar. 1972 – 30 Apr. 1977)	Pandey	D. K. Barooah
13			Abdul Ghafoor (1918–2004) MLC	2 July 1973	11 April 1975	1 year, 283 days				Ghafoor	R. D. Bhandare
14			Jagannath Mishra (1937–2019) MLA for Jhanjharpur	11 April 1975	30 April 1977	2 years, 19 days				Mishra I
President's rule was imposed in during the period (30 April – 24 June 1977)
(11)			Karpoori Thakur (1924–1988) MLA for Phulparas	24 June 1977	21 April 1979	1 year, 301 days	1977 (7th)	Janata Party	Position vacant (24 Jun. 1977 – 17 Feb. 1980)	Thakur II	Jagannath Kaushal
15			Ram Sundar Das (1921–2015) MLA for Sonpur	21 April 1979	17 February 1980	302 days				Das
President's rule was imposed in during the period (14 February – 8 June 1980)
(14)			Jagannath Mishra (1937–2019) MLA for Jhanjharpur	8 June 1980	14 August 1983	3 years, 67 days	1980 (8th)	Indian National Congress (I)	Position vacant (8 Jun. 1980 – 28 Mar. 1995)	Mishra II	A. R. Kidwai
16			Chandrashekhar Singh (1927–1986) MLC	14 August 1983	12 March 1985	1 year, 210 days				Chandrashekhar
17			Bindeshwari Dubey (1921–1993) MLA for Shahpur	12 March 1985	13 February 1988	2 years, 338 days	1985 (9th)			Dubey
18			Bhagwat Jha Azad (1922–2011) MLC	13 February 1988	10 March 1989	1 year, 25 days				Azad	P. Venkatasubbaiah
19			Satyendra Narayan Sinha (1917–2006) MLC	11 March 1989	6 December 1989	270 days				Satyendra	Jagannath Pahadia
(14)			Jagannath Mishra (1937–2019) MLA for Jhanjharpur	6 December 1989	10 March 1990	94 days				Mishra III
20			Lalu Prasad Yadav (born 1948) MLC	10 March 1990	28 March 1995	5 years, 18 days	1990 (10th)	Janata Dal		Yadav I	Mohammad Yunus Saleem
President's rule was imposed in during the period (28 March – 4 April 1995)
(20)			Lalu Prasad Yadav (born 1948) MLA for Raghopur	4 April 1995	25 July 1997	2 years, 112 days	1995 (11th)	Janata Dal	Position vacant (4 Apr. 1995 – 11 Feb. 1999)	Yadav II	A. R. Kidwai
								Rashtriya Janata Dal
21			Rabri Devi (born 1955) MLC	25 July 1997	11 February 1999	1 year, 201 days				Rabri I
President's rule was imposed in during the period (11 February – 9 March 1999)
(21)			Rabri Devi (born 1955) MLC	9 March 1999	2 March 2000	359 days	– (11th)	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Position vacant (9 Mar. 1999 – 6 Mar. 2005)	Rabri II	Sunder Singh Bhandari
22			Nitish Kumar (born 1951) MLC	3 March 2000	10 March 2000	7 days	2000 (12th)	Samata Party		Kumar I	V. C. Pande
(21)			Rabri Devi (born 1955) MLA for Raghopur	11 March 2000	6 March 2005	4 years, 360 days		Rashtriya Janata Dal		Rabri III

==List==

• ^† Died in office
• ^§ Returned to office after a previous non-consecutive term

#	Portrait		Chief Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Election	Term of office			Political party	Ministry
					From	To	Period
1			Babulal Marandi (born 1958) MLA for Ramgarh	2000 (1st)	15 November 2000	18 March 2003	2 years, 123 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Marandi
2			Arjun Munda (born 1968) MLA for Kharsawan		18 March 2003	2 March 2005	1 year, 349 days		Munda I
3			Shibu Soren (1944–2025) Non-elected	2005 (2nd)	2 March 2005	12 March 2005	10 days	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Shibu I
(2)			Arjun Munda (born 1968) MLA for Kharsawan		12 March 2005 [§]	18 September 2006	1 year, 190 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Munda II
4			Madhu Koda (born 1971) MLA for Jaganathpur		18 September 2006	27 August 2008	1 year, 344 days	Independent	Koda
(3)			Shibu Soren (1944–2025) Non-elected		27 August 2008 [§]	19 January 2009	145 days	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Shibu II
Position vacant (19 January –30 December 2009) President's rule was imposed during this period [b]
(3)			Shibu Soren (1944–2025) Non-elected	2009 (3rd)	30 December 2009 [§]	1 June 2010	153 days	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Shibu III
Position vacant (1 June –11 September 2010) President's rule was imposed during this period [b]
(2)			Arjun Munda (born 1968) MLA for Kharsawan	– (3rd)	1 June 2010 [§]	18 January 2013	2 years, 231 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Munda III
Position vacant (18 January –13 July 2010) President's rule was imposed during this period [b]
5			Hemant Soren (born 1975) MLA for Dumka	– (3rd)	13 July 2013	28 December 2014	1 year, 168 days	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Hemant I
6			Raghubar Das (born 1955) MLA for Jamshedpur East	2014 (4th)	28 December 2014	29 December 2019	5 years, 1 day	Bharatiya Janata Party	Das
(5)			Hemant Soren (born 1975) MLA for Barhait	2019 (5th)	29 December 2019 [§]	2 February 2024	4 years, 35 days	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Hemant II
7			Champai Soren (born 1956) MLA for Seraikella		2 February 2024	4 July 2024	153 days		Champai
(5)			Hemant Soren (born 1975) MLA for Barhait		4 July 2024 [§]	Incumbent	1 year, 123 days		Hemant III
				2024 (6th)					Hemant IV

Statistics

Fraction of time of holding CMO by party (as of October 2025)

1. Bharatiya Janata Party (54.6%)
2. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (30.2%)
3. Independent (8.05%)
4. President's Rule (7.08%)

#	Chief Minister	Party		Term of office
				Longest continuous term	Total duration of chief ministership
1	Hemant Soren *		JMM*	4 years, 35 days*	6 years, 326 days*
2	Arjun Munda		BJP	2 years, 129 days	5 years, 307 days
3	Raghubar Das		BJP	5 years, 1 day	5 years, 1 day
4	Babulal Marandi		BJP	2 years, 123 days	2 years, 123 days
5	Madhu Koda		IND	1 year, 343 days	1 year, 343 days
6	Shibu Soren		JMM	153 days	308 days
7	Champai Soren		JMM	153 days	153 days

Timeline

Notes

1. A parenthetical number indicates that the incumbent has previously held office.
2. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved. ^[6]

References

1. Basu, Durga Das (1960). Introduction to the Constitution of India (20 ed.). Nagpur: LexisNexis Butterworths, Wadhwa. pp. 241, 245. ISBN   978-81-8038-559-9.. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Jharkhand as well.
2. Chaudhuri, Kalyan (1 September 2000). "Jharkhand, at last". Frontline. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
3. Ramanujam, P.V. (14 September 2006). "Madhu Koda to be next Jharkhand CM". Rediff.com . Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
4. "How Bihar was carved out of the Bengal Presidency in 1912". www.indianexpress.com. 22 March 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
5. "Nitish Kumar's government in Bihar not outvoted as much as outmanoeuvred by Laloo Yadav".
6. Amberish K. Diwanji. "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005. Retrieved on 3 March 2013.