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 20 February 2025, 55 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister out of which fourteen are incumbent.

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A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight states and two union territories (UTs) (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. 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]

Of the 55 BJP chief ministers, fourteen are incumbent – Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam, Vishnu Deo Sai in Chhattisgarh, TBA in Delhi, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Bhupendrabhai Patel in Gujarat, Nayab Singh Saini in Haryana, Mohan Yadav in Madhya Pradesh, Devendra Fadnavis in Maharashtra, Mohan Charan Majhi in Odisha, 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 and Delhi [7] each, and three in Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand each.

Arunachal Pradesh

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Gegong Apang.jpg Gegong Apang [α] Tuting–Yingkiong 31 August 200329 August 2004364 days 6th
2 Pema Khandu in July 2016.jpg Pema Khandu* [β] Mukto 31 December 201628 May 20198 years, 50 days 9th
29 May 201912 June 2024 10th
13 June 2024Incumbent 11th
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Assam

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.jpg Sarbananda Sonowal Majuli 24 May 201610 May 20214 years, 351 days 14th
2 Himanta Biswa Sarma with PM Narendra Modi Cropped.jpg Himanta Biswa Sarma* Jalukbari 10 May 2021Incumbent3 years, 285 days 15th
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Chhattisgarh

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 The former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Dr. Raman Singh.jpg Raman Singh Dongargaon 7 December 200311 December 200815 years, 10 days 2nd
Rajnandgaon 12 December 200811 December 2013 3rd
12 December 201317 December 2018 4th
2 Vishnu Deo Sai.jpg Vishnu Deo Sai* Kunkuri 13 December 2023Incumbent1 year, 68 days 6th
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Delhi

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Madan Lal Khurana.jpg Madan Lal Khurana Moti Nagar 2 December 199326 February 19962 years, 86 days 1st
2 Sahib Singh Verma (cropped).jpg Sahib Singh Verma Shalimar Bagh 26 February 199612 October 19982 years, 228 days
3 Sushma Swaraj Ji.jpg Sushma Swaraj Did not contest12 October 19983 December 199852 days
4 Rekha Gupta.jpg Rekha Gupta Shalimar Bagh 20 February 2025Incumbent−1 day 8th
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Goa

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 The official photograph of the Union Minister for Defence, Shri Manohar Parrikar.jpg Manohar Parrikar Panaji 24 October 20002 June 20028 years, 349 days 8th
3 June 20023 February 2005 9th
9 March 20128 November 2014 11th
14 March 201717 March 2019 12th
2 Laxmikant Parsekar.jpg Laxmikant Parsekar Mandrem 8 November 201414 March 20172 years, 126 days 11th
3 The Chief Minister of Goa, Shri Pramod Sawant.jpg Pramod Sawant* Sanquelim 19 March 201927 March 20225 years, 337 days 12th
28 March 2022Incumbent 13th
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Gujarat

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Keshubhai Patel.jpg Keshubhai Patel Visavadar 14 March 199521 October 19954 years, 73 days 9th
4 March 19987 October 2001 10th
2 Suresh Mehta Mandvi 21 October 199519 September 1996334 days 9th
3 PM Modi Portrait(cropped).jpg Narendra Modi Rajkot West 7 October 200121 December 200212 years, 227 days 10th
Maninagar 22 December 200222 December 2007 11th
23 December 200725 December 2012 12th
26 December 201222 May 2014 13th
4 Anandiben Patel Ji.jpg Anandiben Patel Ghatlodia 22 May 20147 August 20162 years, 77 days
5 Vijay Rupani.jpg Vijay Rupani Rajkot West 7 August 201625 December 20175 years, 37 days
26 December 201713 September 2021 14th
6 Bhupendra PAtel Sanskrit.jpg Bhupendrabhai Patel Ghatlodia 13 September 202111 December 20223 years, 159 days
12 December 2022Incumbent 15th
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Haryana

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Manohar Lal.jpg Manohar Lal Khattar Karnal 26 October 201426 October 20199 years, 138 days 13th
27 October 201912 March 2024 14th
2 Nayab Singh Saini 2023.jpg Nayab Singh Saini* Karnal 12 March 202417 October 2024344 days
Ladwa 17 October 2024Incubment 15th
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Himachal Pradesh

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Shanta Kumar.jpg Shanta Kumar [γ] Palampur 5 March 199015 December 19922 years, 285 days 7th
2 Prem Kumar Dhumal.jpg Prem Kumar Dhumal Bamsan 24 March 19986 March 20039 years, 343 days 9th
30 December 200725 December 2012 11th
3 The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Shri Jai Ram Thakur calling on the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar, in New Delhi on September 06, 2018.JPG (1).jpg Jai Ram Thakur Seraj 27 December 201711 December 20224 years, 349 days 13th
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Jharkhand

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Babulal Marandi Ramgarh 15 November 200018 March 20032 years, 123 days 1st
2 Arjun Munda - Ranchi 2011-11-29 9195.JPG Arjun Munda Kharsawan 18 March 20032 March 20055 years, 304 days
12 March 200519 September 2006 2nd
11 September 201018 January 2013 3rd
3 Raghubar Das with Jual Oram (cropped).jpg Raghubar Das Jamshedpur East 28 December 201429 December 20195 years, 1 day 4th
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Karnataka

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 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 Shikaripura 12 November 200719 November 20075 years, 81 days 12th
30 May 20085 August 2011 13th
17 May 201823 May 2018 15th
26 July 201928 July 2021
2 Sadananda Gowda.jpg Sadananda Gowda MLC 5 August 201112 July 2012342 days 13th
3 Jagadish Shettar.jpg Jagadish Shettar Hubli-Dharwad Central 12 July 201213 May 2013305 days
4 Shri Basavaraj Bommai calling on the Union Minister for Defence, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on July 30 2021.jpg Basavaraj Bommai Shiggaon 28 July 202120 May 20231 year, 296 days 15th
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Madhya Pradesh

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#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Sunder Lal Patwa [ε] Bhojpur 5 March 199015 December 19922 years, 285 days 9th
2 Uma Bharati in 2014.jpg Uma Bharti Malhara 8 December 200323 August 2004259 days 12th
3 Babulal Gaur (cropped).jpg Babulal Gaur Govindpura 23 August 200428 November 20051 year, 98 days
4 The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan meeting the Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Ajit Singh, in New Delhi on November 21, 2012 1(cropped).jpg Shivraj Singh Chouhan Budhni 29 November 200511 December 200816 years, 282 days
12 December 200813 December 2013 13th
14 December 201317 December 2018 14th
23 March 202013 December 2023 15th
5 PM attends swearing in ceremony of Mohan Yadav and his deputies at Bhopal, in Madhya Pradesh.jpg Mohan Yadav* Ujjain South 13 December 2023Incumbent1 year, 68 days 16th
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Maharashtra

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Devendra Fadnavis @Vidhan Sabha 04-03-2021.jpg Devendra Fadnavis Nagpur South West 31 October 201412 November 20195 years, 93 days 13th
23 November 201928 November 2019 14th
5 December 2024Incumbent 15th
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Manipur

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Nongthombam Biren.jpg N. Biren Singh Heignang 15 March 201720 March 20227 years, 341 days 12th
21 March 202213 February 2025 13th
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Odisha

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Mohan Charan Majhi (2024 Image).jpg Mohan Charan Majhi* Keonjhar 12 June 2024Incumbent252 days 17th
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Rajasthan

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 BS Shekhawat.jpg Bhairon Singh Shekhawat [ζ] Chhabra 4 March 199015 December 19927 years, 283 days 9th
Bali 4 December 19931 December 1998 10th
2 Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje.JPG Vasundhara Raje Jhalrapatan 8 December 200312 December 200810 years, 8 days 12th
13 December 201317 December 2018 14th
3 Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma.jpg Bhajan Lal Sharma* Sanganer 15 December 2023Incumbent1 year, 66 days 16th
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Tripura

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Biplab Kumar Deb (cropped).png Biplab Kumar Deb Banamalipur 9 March 201815 May 20224 years, 67 days 12th
2 Manik Saha Invitation for HWC 2023.jpg Manik Saha* Town Bordowali 15 May 20227 March 20232 years, 280 days
8 March 2023Incumbent 13th
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Uttar Pradesh

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 Kalyan Singh1.jpg Kalyan Singh Atrauli 24 June 19916 December 19923 years, 217 days 11th
21 September 199712 November 1999 13th
2 Ram Prakash Gupta.jpg Ram Prakash Gupta MLC 12 November 199928 October 2000351 days
3 Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh.jpg Rajnath Singh Haidergarh 28 October 20008 March 20021 year, 131 days
4 The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Shri Yogi Adityanath in New Delhi on February 10, 2018 (cropped).jpg Yogi Adityanath* MLC 19 March 201724 March 20227 years, 337 days 17th
Gorakhpur Urban 25 March 2022Incumbent 18th
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Uttarakhand

#PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly
1 CM UK.jpg Nityanand Swami MLC 9 November 200030 October 2001355 days Interim
2 Karate Coach Dr. Pradeep Kumar Yadav honored by Honorable Governor of Maharashtra Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari Ji (cropped).jpg Bhagat Singh Koshyari MLC 30 October 20011 March 2002123 days
3 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 Dhumakot 7 March 200727 June 20092 years, 296 days 2nd
11 September 201113 March 2012
4 Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', 2020.jpg Ramesh Pokhriyal Thalisain 27 June 200911 September 20112 years, 76 days
5 The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat.jpg Trivendra Singh Rawat Doiwala 18 March 201710 March 20213 years, 357 days 4th
6 The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Tirath Singh Rawat.jpg Tirath Singh Rawat Not Contested10 March 20214 July 2021116 days
7 Pushkar Dhami.jpg Pushkar Singh Dhami* Khatima 4 July 202122 March 20223 years, 230 days
Champawat 23 March 2022Incumbent 5th
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See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Apang was a member of the INC while becoming the chief minister for the first time. [8] However, he left the INC and formed the Arunachal Congress in 1996, [9] and remained the chief minister until 1999. [8] He was reelected as the chief minister in August 2003, [8] and his party merged with the BJP in the same month. [10] However, he again joined the INC in August 2004, [9] and remained seated on the post of chief minister until 2007. [8] He once again joined the BJP in February 2014, [11] but left it in January 2019 and joined the Janata Dal (Secular) in February 2019. [12]
  2. ↑ Khandu became the chief minister in July 2016 while being a member of the INC. [13] He joined the People's Party of Arunachal in September 2016, [13] and later defected to the BJP in December 2016. [14]
  3. ↑ Shanta Kumar became the chief minister for the first time (1977–1980) while being a member of the JP. [8]
  4. ↑ Kailash Chandra Joshi is a BJP leader who became Madhya Pradesh chief minister in 1977 as a member of JP. [8] Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha, who became Madhya Pradesh chief minister in 1978 as a JP member, was also a BJP leader. [8]
  5. ↑ Patwa became the chief minister for the first time (January 1980 – February 1980) while being a member of the JP. [8]
  6. ↑ Shekhawat became the chief minister for the first time (1977–1980) while being a member of the JP.

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  2. ↑ "In Numbers: The Rise of BJP and decline of Congress". The Times of India . 19 May 2016. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Sixteenth Lok Sabha". Lok Sabha. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Sagarika Dutt (12 November 2006). India in a Globalised World. Manchester University Press. p. 64. ISBN   9781847792143. Archived from the original on 3 March 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2013. BJP is a right wing party and gives priority to the unity of the country.
  5. ↑ Durga Das Basu (1960). Introduction to the Constitution of India (20th ed.). LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. pp. 241, 245. ISBN   978-81-8038-559-9.
  6. ↑ "Janata Party merged with the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)". jagranjosh.com. 12 August 2013. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  7. ↑ Mishra, Indrani Pal , Kavithaa Sri & Yash (8 February 2025). "Delhi election results 2025 LIVE: BJP wins 40 seats, Kejriwal loses New Delhi constituency". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 8 February 2025.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  9. 1 2 "Apang back in Cong fold". The Economic Times . 29 August 2004. Archived from the original on 3 May 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  10. ↑ "BJP bags its first NE state". The Economic Times. 31 August 2003. Archived from the original on 6 December 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  11. ↑ "Congress stalwart Gegong Apang joins BJP". The Times of India. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Arunachal veteran Gegong Apang joins Devegowda's JD(S)". Business Standard . 21 February 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  13. 1 2 "BJP joins Pema Khandu's government in Arunachal Pradesh". Rediff.com . 14 October 2016. Archived from the original on 1 January 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  14. ↑ "BJP forms government in Arunachal Pradesh with 33 PPA MLAs joining it". The Economic Times. 31 December 2016. Archived from the original on 1 January 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
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