List of chief ministers of Chhattisgarh

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Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
Coat of arms of Chhattisgarh.svg
Vishnu Deo Sai.jpg
Incumbent
Vishnu Deo Sai
since 13 December 2023
Government of Chhattisgarh
Style The Honourable (Formal)
Mr./Mrs. Chief Minister (Informal)
Type Head of Government
StatusLeader of the Executive
AbbreviationCM
Member of
Reports to
Residence B-3, C.M. House, Civil Lines, Raipur [1]
Seat Mahanadi Bhawan, Naya Raipur
NominatorMembers 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
Formation1 November 2000
(23 years ago) (2000-11-01)
Deputy Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
Salary
  • ₹230,000 (US$2,900)/monthly
  • ₹2,760,000 (US$35,000)/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]

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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.

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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.

NoPortraitName Constituency Tenure Assembly
(election)		Party [lower-alpha 1]
1 Ajit Jogi.png Ajit Jogi Marwahi 1 November 20007 December 20033 years, 34 days1st/Interim [lower-alpha 2]
(1998 election)		 Indian National Congress
2 The former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Dr. Raman Singh.jpg Raman Singh Dongargaon 7 December 200311 December 200815 years, 10 days2nd
(2003 election)		 Bharatiya Janata Party
Rajnandgaon 12 December 200811 December 20133rd
(2008 election)
12 December 201317 December 20184th
(2013 election)
3 Bhupesh Baghel.jpg Bhupesh Baghel Patan 17 December 201813 December 20234 years, 361 days5th
(2018 election)		 Indian National Congress
4 Vishnu Deo Sai.jpg Vishnu Deo Sai Kunkuri 13 December 2023Incumbent114 days6th
(2023 election)		 Bharatiya Janata Party

Timeline

Bhupesh BaghelRaman SinghAjit JogiList of chief ministers of Chhattisgarh

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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cabinet". Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. Archived from the original on 9 July 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  2. 1 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.

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