List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the two major parties in the political system of the Republic of India, the other being the Indian National Congress (INC). [1] [2] As of 2015, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament. [3] Established in 1980, the BJP's platform is generally considered as the right-wing of the political spectrum. [4] As of 19 December 2023, 52 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister and Deputy Chief Minister out of which twelve and Eleven are incumbent.

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A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight states and three union territories (UTs) (Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir 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. The chief minister's term is usually for a maximum of five years, with the confidence of the assembly's confidence. There are no limits to the number of terms the chief minister can serve. [5] Deputy Chief Minister is a member of the state government and usually the second highest ranking executive officer of their state's council of ministers. While not a constitutional office, it seldom carries any specific powers.[1] A deputy chief minister usually also holds a cabinet portfolio such as home minister or finance minister. In the parliamentary system of government, the Chief Minister is treated as the "first among equals" in the cabinet; the position of deputy chief minister is used to bring political stability and strength within a coalition government.

Of the 52 BJP chief ministers, twelve are incumbent – Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam, Vishnu Deo Sai in Chhattisgarh, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Bhupendrabhai Patel in Gujarat, Nayab Singh Saini in Haryana, Mohan Yadav in Madhya Pradesh, N. Biren Singh in Manipur, Bhajan Lal Sharma in Rajasthan, Manik Saha in Tripura, Pushkar Singh Dhami in Uttarakhand, and Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh. Four of the BJP chief ministers have been women – Sushma Swaraj in Delhi, Uma Bharti in Madhya Pradesh, Anandiben Patel in Gujarat and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Shivraj Singh Chauhan, who is chief minister of Madhya Pradesh for more than 15 years has been the longest-serving chief minister from the BJP. Devendra Fadnavis's second tenure as the chief minister of Maharashtra lasted for only three days, which is the least tenure among chief ministers from BJP; however, taking the total of all the tenures into consideration, Sushma Swaraj served as a chief minister of Delhi for the shortest period of 52 days. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat of Rajasthan was the first chief minister from the BJP; however some BJP leaders had already been elected before as the chief minister while being a member of the Janata Party (JP), an amalgam of political parties which included BJP's predecessor Bharatiya Jana Sangh. [6] There have been seven chief ministers in Uttarakhand from the BJP, six chief ministers in Gujarat, five chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh, four chief ministers in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh each, and three in Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand each.

Arunachal Pradesh

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
Gegong Apang.jpg Gegong Apang [lower-greek 1] 31 August 200329 August 2004364 days 6th
Pema Khandu in July 2016.jpg Pema Khandu* [lower-greek 2] 31 December 201628 May 20197 years, 103 days 9th
29 May 2019Incumbent 10th
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Assam

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.jpg Sarbananda Sonowal 24 May 20169 May 20214 years, 350 days 14th
Himanta Biswa Sarma with PM Narendra Modi Cropped.jpg Himanta Biswa Sarma*10 May 2021Incumbent2 years, 338 days 15th
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Chhattisgarh

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
The former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Dr. Raman Singh.jpg Raman Singh 7 December 200311 December 200815 years, 9 days 2nd
12 December 200811 December 2013 3rd
12 December 201316 December 2018 4th
Vishnu Deo Sai.jpg Vishnu Deo Sai*13 December 2023Incumbent121 days 6th
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Delhi

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
Madan Lal Khurana.jpg Madan Lal Khurana 2 December 199326 February 19962 years, 86 days 1st
The Union Labour Minister Dr. Sahib Singh chairing the 165th Meeting of the CBT, Employees Provident Fund in New Delhi on December 3, 2003 (Wednesday) (cropped).jpg Sahib Singh Verma 26 February 199612 October 19982 years, 228 days
Sushma Swaraj Ji.jpg Sushma Swaraj 12 October 19983 December 199852 days
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Goa

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
The official photograph of the Union Minister for Defence, Shri Manohar Parrikar.jpg Manohar Parrikar 24 October 20002 June 20024 years, 101 days 8th
3 June 20022 February 2005 9th
9 March 20128 November 20142 years, 244 days 11th
14 March 201717 March 20192 years, 3 days 12th
Laxmikant Parsekar.jpg Laxmikant Parsekar 8 November 201413 March 20172 years, 125 days 11th
The Chief Minister of Goa, Shri Pramod Sawant.jpg Pramod Sawant*19 March 201927 March 20225 years, 24 days 12th
28 March 2022Incumbent 13th
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Gujarat

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
Keshubhai Patel.jpg Keshubhai Patel 14 March 199521 October 1995221 days 9th
4 March 19986 October 20013 years, 216 days 10th
Suresh Mehta 21 October 199519 September 1996334 days 9th
PM Modi Portrait(cropped).jpg Narendra Modi 7 October 200121 December 200212 years, 227 days 10th
22 December 200222 December 2007 11th
23 December 200725 December 2012 12th
26 December 201222 May 2014 13th
Anandiben Patel Ji.jpg Anandiben Patel 22 May 20146 August 20162 years, 76 days
Vijay Rupani.jpg Vijay Rupani 7 August 201625 December 20175 years, 37 days
26 December 201713 September 2021 14th
Bhupendra PAtel Sanskrit.jpg Bhupendrabhai Patel 13 September 202111 December 20222 years, 212 days
12 December 2022Incumbent 15th
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Haryana

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
Manohar Lal.jpg Manohar Lal Khattar 26 October 201426 October 20199 years, 138 days 13th
27 October 201912 March 2024 14th
Nayab Singh Saini 2023.jpg

Nayab Singh Saini*

12 March 2024Incumbent31 days
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Himachal Pradesh

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
Shanta Kumar.jpg Shanta Kumar [lower-greek 3] 5 March 199015 December 19922 years, 285 days 7th
Prem Kumar Dhumal.jpg Prem Kumar Dhumal 24 March 19985 March 20034 years, 346 days 9th
30 December 200725 December 20124 years, 361 days 11th
JRThakur.jpg Jai Ram Thakur 27 December 201711 December 20224 years, 349 days 13th
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Jharkhand

PortraitNameTerm in office
Babulal Marandi 15 November 200018 March 20032 years, 123 days 1st
Arjun Munda - Ranchi 2011-11-29 9195.JPG Arjun Munda 18 March 20032 March 20051 year, 349 days
12 March 200519 September 20061 year, 191 days 2nd
11 September 201018 January 20132 years, 129 days 3rd
Raghuvar Das.jpg Raghubar Das 28 December 201429 December 20195 years, 1 day 4th
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Karnataka

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri B.S. Yediyurappa meeting with the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia to finalize annual plan 2008-09 of the State, in New Delhi on August 12, 2008 (1) (cropped).jpg B. S. Yediyurappa 12 November 200719 November 20075 years, 81 days 12th
30 May 20084 August 2011 13th
17 May 201823 May 2018 15th
26 July 201928 July 2021
Sadananda Gowda.jpg Sadananda Gowda 5 August 201112 July 2012342 days 13th
Jagadish Shettar.jpg Jagadish Shettar 12 July 201213 May 2013305 days
Bommai at the inauguration of Metroline (cropped).jpg Basavaraj Bommai 28 July 202117 May 20231 year, 293 days 15th
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Madhya Pradesh

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PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
Sunder Lal Patwa [lower-greek 5] 5 March 199015 December 19922 years, 285 days 9th
Uma Bharati in 2014.jpg Uma Bharti 8 December 200322 August 2004258 days 12th
Babulal Gaur (cropped).jpg Babulal Gaur 23 August 200428 November 20051 year, 97 days
Shivraj Singh Chauhan (cropped).JPG Shivraj Singh Chouhan 29 November 200511 December 200813 years, 17 days
12 December 200813 December 2013 13th
14 December 201316 December 2018 14th
23 March 202013 December 20233 years, 265 days 15th
PM attends swearing in ceremony of Mohan Yadav and his deputies at Bhopal, in Madhya Pradesh.jpg Mohan Yadav*13 December 2023Incumbent121 days 16th
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Maharashtra

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
Devendra Fadnavis StockFreeImage.png Devendra Fadnavis 31 October 201412 November 20195 years, 17 days 13th
23 November 201928 November 2019 14th
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Manipur

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
N. Biren Singh.jpg N. Biren Singh*15 March 201720 March 20227 years, 28 days 12th
21 March 2022Incumbent 13th
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Rajasthan

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
BS Shekhawat.jpg Bhairon Singh Shekhawat [lower-greek 6] 4 March 199015 December 19922 years, 286 days 9th
4 December 19931 December 19984 years, 362 days 10th
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje.JPG Vasundhara Raje 8 December 200312 December 200810 years, 8 days 12th
13 December 201317 December 2018 14th
Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma.jpg Bhajan Lal Sharma*15 December 2023Incumbent119 days 16th
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Tripura

The Left Front government was defeated after 25 years of office out in 2018 election, with the Bharatiya Janata Party winning majority of seats and Biplab Kumar Deb becoming the first Chief Minister of Tripura from the Bharatiya Janata Party.

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
Biplab Kumar Deb (cropped).png Biplab Kumar Deb 9 March 201814 May 20224 years, 66 days 12th
Manik Saha Invitation for HWC 2023.jpg Manik Saha*15 May 20227 March 20231 year, 333 days
8 March 2023Incumbent 13th
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Uttar Pradesh

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
Kalyan Singh1.jpg Kalyan Singh 24 June 19916 December 19923 years, 217 days 11th
21 September 199712 November 1999 13th
Ram Prakash Gupta 12 November 199928 October 2000351 days
Rajnath.jpg Rajnath Singh 28 October 20008 March 20021 year, 131 days
The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Shri Yogi Adityanath meeting the President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on February 10, 2018 (cropped).jpg Yogi Adityanath*19 March 201724 March 20227 years, 24 days 17th
25 March 2022Incumbent 18th
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Uttarakhand

PortraitNameTerm in officeAssembly
CM UK.jpg Nityanand Swami 9 November 200029 October 2001354 days 1st
Bhagatsinghkoshyari.jpg Bhagat Singh Koshyari 30 October 20011 March 2002122 days
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Major General (Retd.) B. C. Khanduri meeting with the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Murli Deora, in New Delhi on December 07, 2007.jpg B. C. Khanduri 7 March 200726 June 20092 years, 295 days 3rd
11 September 201113 March 2012
Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, in New Delhi on February 20, 2020 (cropped).jpg Ramesh Pokhriyal 27 June 200910 September 20112 years, 75 days
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat.jpg Trivendra Singh Rawat 18 March 201710 March 20213 years, 357 days 5th
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Tirath Singh Rawat.jpg Tirath Singh Rawat 10 March 20214 July 2021116 days
Pushkar Dhami.jpg Pushkar Singh Dhami*4 July 202122 March 20222 years, 283 days
23 March 2022Incumbent 6th
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Notes

  1. ↑ Apang was a member of the INC while becoming the chief minister for the first time. [7] However, he left the INC and formed the Arunachal Congress in 1996, [8] and remained the chief minister until 1999. [7] He was reelected as the chief minister in August 2003, [7] and his party merged with the BJP in the same month. [9] However, he again joined the INC in August 2004, [8] and remained seated on the post of chief minister until 2007. [7] He once again joined the BJP in February 2014, [10] but left it in January 2019 and joined the Janata Dal (Secular) in February 2019. [11]
  2. ↑ Khandu became the chief minister in July 2016 while being a member of the INC. [12] He joined the People's Party of Arunachal in September 2016, [12] and later defected to the BJP in December 2016. [13]
  3. ↑ Shanta Kumar became the chief minister for the first time (1977–1980) while being a member of the JP. [7]
  4. ↑ Kailash Chandra Joshi is a BJP leader who became Madhya Pradesh chief minister in 1977 as a member of JP. [7] Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha, who became Madhya Pradesh chief minister in 1978 as a JP member, was also a BJP leader. [7]
  5. ↑ Patwa became the chief minister for the first time (January 1980 – February 1980) while being a member of the JP. [7]
  6. ↑ Shekhawat became the chief minister for the first time (1977–1980) while being a member of the JP.

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