List of Indian chief ministers who died in office

This is a list of heads of government of Indian States who died in office. Such deaths have most often been from natural causes, but there are also cases of assassination and accidents. ^[1]

The list is in chronological order. The name is listed first, followed by the year of death, the state, political party, the location of the death and the cause of death.

S. No.	Portrait	Name	Date of death (age)	State	Political Party		Place of death	Cause of death	Ref
1		Gopinath Bordoloi	5 August 1950 (60)	Assam		Indian National Congress	Guwahati	Cardiac arrest	[2]
2		Ravishankar Shukla	31 December 1956 (79)	Madhya Pradesh			New Delhi	Cardiac arrest	[3]
3		Shri Krishna Sinha	31 January 1961 (74)	Bihar			Patna	Cardiac arrest	[4]
4		Bidhan Chandra Roy	1 July 1962 (80)	West Bengal			Kolkata	Stroke	[5]
5		Marotrao Kannamwar	24 November 1963 (63)	Maharashtra			Bombay	N/A	[6]
6		Balwantrai Mehta	19 September 1965 (65)	Gujarat			Suthari	Plane shot down	[7]
7		C. N. Annadurai	3 November 1969 (59)	Tamil Nadu / Madras State		Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Madras	Cancer	[8]
8		Dayanand Bandodkar	12 August 1973 (62)	Goa, Daman and Diu		Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party	Bambolim	Cardiac arrest	[9]
9		Barkatullah Khan	11 October 1973 (52)	Rajasthan		Indian National Congress	Jaipur	Cardiac arrest	[10]
10		Sheikh Abdullah	8 September 1983 (76)	Jammu and Kashmir		Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	Srinagar	Physical illness	[11]
11		M. G. Ramachandran	24 December 1987 (70)	Tamil Nadu		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Madras	Kidney failure	[12]
12		Chimanbhai Patel	17 February 1994 (64)	Gujarat		Indian National Congress	Ahmedabad	Cardiac arrest	[13]
13		Beant Singh	31 August 1995 (73)	Punjab			Chandigarh	Bomb blast	[14]
14		Hiteswar Saikia	22 April 1996 (61)	Assam			New Delhi	Cardiac arrest	[15]
15		Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy	2 September 2009 (60)	Andhra Pradesh			Kurnool	Helicopter crash	[16]
16		Dorjee Khandu	30 April 2011 (56)	Arunachal Pradesh			Tawang	Helicopter crash	[17]
17		Mufti Mohammad Sayeed	7 January 2016 (79)	Jammu and Kashmir		Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party	New Delhi	Multiple-organ failure	[18]
18		J. Jayalalithaa	5 December 2016 (68)	Tamil Nadu		All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Chennai	Cardiac arrest	[19]
19		Manohar Parrikar	17 March 2019 (63)	Goa		Bharatiya Janata Party	Panaji	Pancreatic cancer	[20]

Former Indian States

Portrait	Name	Date of death (age)	State	Political Party		Place of death	Cause of death	Ref
	Raghbir Singh	12 January 1955 (60)	Patiala and East Punjab State Union		Indian National Congress	Patiala	N/A	[21]

Before Independence

Portrait	Name	Date of death (age)	State	Title	Political Party		Place of death	Cause of death	Ref
	Sikandar Hayat Khan	26 December 1942 (50)	Punjab	Premier		Unionist Party	Lahore	Heart failure	[22]

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