List of chief ministers of Rajasthan

Chief Minister of Rajasthan
Chief Minister of Rajasthan
राजस्थान के मुख्यमंत्री
	Incumbent; Bhajan Lal Sharma ; since 15 December 2023
	Government of Rajasthan
Style	The Honourable (Formal); Mr. Chief Minister (Informal)
Status	Head of Government
Abbreviation	CM
Member of	Rajasthan Legislative Assembly ; Rajasthan Council of Ministers ;
Reports to	Governor of Rajasthan ; Rajasthan Legislative Assembly ;
Seat	Secretariat, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Appointer	Governor of Rajasthan by convention based on appointees ability to command confidence in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
Term length	5 years; Chief minister's term is for five years, provided the confidence of legislative assembly and is subject to no term limits.
Inaugural holder	Heera Lal Shastri
Formation	26 January 1950; (74 years ago)
Deputy	Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan
Salary	₹175,000 (US$2,100)/monthly; ₹2,100,000 (US$25,000)/annually;
Website	CMO Rajasthan

Last updated December 19, 2024

The chief minister of Rajasthan is the chief executive of the Indian state of Rajasthan. 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 Rajasthan 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]

At the time of India's independence in 1947, the region known as Rajputana included various princely states ^[a] and the province of Ajmer-Merwara. Over time, these areas were gradually integrated to form the modern Indian state of Rajasthan. The integration occurred in seven stages, from March 1948 to November 1956.^[2] On 18 March 1948, the states of Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur, and Karauli merged their territories to form the Matsya Union, with Shobha Ram becoming its prime minister.^[3] Shortly after, on 25 March 1948, the Rajasthan Union was formed by the states of Bundi, Kota, Jhalawar, Dungarpur, Banswara, Pratapgarh, Kishangarh, Tonk, Shahpura and the chiefship of Lawa, with Gokul Lal Asava serving as its first prime minister.^[4] On 18 April 1948, Udaipur State joined the Union, and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the newly named United State of Rajasthan, with Manikya Lal Verma becoming its prime minister.^[5] Later, on 30 March 1949, the states of Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, and Jaisalmer merged into the union, which was then renamed the United State of Greater Rajasthan. Hiralal Shastri became the prime minister on 7 April 1949. On 15 May 1949, the Matsya Union joined the United State of Greater Rajasthan.^[6]

From 26 January 1950, the state officially came to be known as Rajasthan, with Shashtri continuing as its first chief minister.^[7] On 3 March 1952, following the first legislative assembly election, Tika Ram Paliwal of the Indian National Congress became the first elected chief minister of the state.^[8] Since 1949, three people have served as Prime Minister and fourteen people have served as chief minister of Rajasthan. Mohan Lal Sukhadia of the Congress party is the longest-serving chief minister, having been sworn in four times and serving for over sixteen years. Vasundhara Raje Scindia of the Bharatiya Janata Party is the only female to have held this position.^[9] Since 1998, no chief minister or political party has retained power after completing one term, a trend that continued in the recent elections.^[10] After a landslide victory with 115 seats in the 2023 assembly elections, Bhajan Lal Sharma of the Bharatiya Janata Party succeeded Ashok Gehlot of the Indian National Congress.^[11]^[12]

List

Prime minister of Matsya Union (1948–1949)

#	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Election (Term)	Appointed by	Party
1		Shobha Ram Kumawat	18 March 1948	15 May 1949	1 year, 58 days	–	Udai Bhan Singh (Rajpramukh)	Indian National Congress

Prime ministers of Rajasthan (1948–1950)

#	Name	Term of office			Election (Term)	Appointed by	Party
1	Gokul Lal Asawa	25 March 1948	18 April 1948	24 days	–	Bhim Singh II (Rajpramukh)	Indian National Congress
2	Manikya Lal Verma	18 April 1948	7 April 1949	354 days	–	Bhupal Singh (Rajpramukh)
3	Hiralal Shastri	7 April 1949	26 January 1950	294 days	–	Man Singh II (Rajpramukh)

Chief ministers of Rajasthan (1950 to present)

Note: ^† Died in office

No	Name	Constituency	Tenure			Assembly (election)	Party^[b]
1	Heera Lal Shastri	–	26 January 1950	6 January 1951	345 days	–	Indian National Congress
2	C. S. Venkatachar	–	6 January 1951	26 April 1951	110 days	–
3	Jai Narayan Vyas	–	26 April 1951	3 March 1952	312 days	–
4	Tika Ram Paliwal	Mahuwa	3 March 1952	1 November 1952	243 days	1st (1952 election)
(3)	Jai Narayan Vyas	Kishangarh	1 November 1952	13 November 1954	2 years, 12 days
5	Mohan Lal Sukhadia	Udaipur	13 November 1954	11 April 1957	12 years, 120 days
			11 April 1957	11 March 1962		2nd (1957 election)
			12 March 1962	13 March 1967		3rd (1962 election)
–	Vacant^[c] (President's rule)	–	13 March 1967	26 April 1967	44 days	–
(5)	Mohan Lal Sukhadia	Udaipur	26 April 1967	9 July 1971	4 years, 74 days	4th (1967 election)	Indian National Congress
6	Barkatullah Khan	Tijara	9 July 1971	11 October 1973^[†]	2 years, 94 days	4th (1967 election)
6	Barkatullah Khan	Tijara	9 July 1971	11 October 1973^[†]	2 years, 94 days	5th (1972 election)
7	Hari Dev Joshi	Banswara	11 October 1973	29 April 1977	3 years, 200 days	5th (1972 election)
–	Vacant^[c] (President's rule)	–	29 April 1977	22 June 1977	54 days	–
8	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Chhabra	22 June 1977	16 February 1980	2 years, 239 days	6th (1977 election)	Janata Party
–	Vacant^[c] (President's rule)	–	16 February 1980	6 June 1980	111 days	–
9	Jagannath Pahadia	Weir	6 June 1980	14 July 1981	1 year, 38 days	7th (1980 election)	Indian National Congress
10	Shiv Charan Mathur	Mandalgarh	14 July 1981	23 February 1985	3 years, 224 days
11	Hira Lal Devpura	Kumbhalgarh	23 February 1985	10 March 1985	15 days
(7)	Hari Dev Joshi	Banswara	10 March 1985	20 January 1988	2 years, 316 days	8th (1985 election)
(10)	Shiv Charan Mathur	Mandalgarh	20 January 1988	4 December 1989	1 year, 318 days
(7)	Hari Dev Joshi	Banswara	4 December 1989	4 March 1990	90 days
(8)	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Chhabra	4 March 1990	15 December 1992	2 years, 286 days	9th (1990 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
–	Vacant^[c] (President's rule)	–	15 December 1992	4 December 1993	354 days	–
(8)	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	Bali	4 December 1993	1 December 1998	4 years, 362 days	10th (1993 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
12	Ashok Gehlot	Sardarpura	1 December 1998	8 December 2003	5 years, 7 days	11th (1998 election)	Indian National Congress
13	Vasundhara Raje	Jhalrapatan	8 December 2003	12 December 2008	5 years, 4 days	12th (2003 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
(12)	Ashok Gehlot	Sardarpura	12 December 2008	13 December 2013	5 years, 1 day	13th (2008 election)	Indian National Congress
(13)	Vasundhara Raje	Jhalrapatan	13 December 2013	17 December 2018	5 years, 4 days	14th (2013 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
(12)	Ashok Gehlot	Sardarpura	17 December 2018	15 December 2023	4 years, 363 days	15th (2018 election)	Indian National Congress
14	Bhajan Lal Sharma	Sanganer	15 December 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 4 days	16th (2023 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party

Statistics

List by chief minister

#	Chief Minister	Party		Term of office
#	Chief Minister	Party		Longest continuous term	Total duration of chief ministership
1	Mohan Lal Sukhadia		INC	12 years, 120 days	16 years, 194 days
2	Ashok Gehlot		INC	5 years, 7 days	15 years, 6 days
3	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat		BJP/JP	4 years, 362 days	10 years, 157 days
4	Vasundhara Raje		BJP	5 years, 4 days	10 years, 8 days
5	Hari Dev Joshi		INC	3 years, 200 days	6 years, 241 days
6	Shiv Charan Mathur		INC	3 years, 224 days	5 years, 177 days
7	Jai Narayan Vyas		INC	2 years, 12 days	2 years, 324 days
8	Barkatullah Khan		INC	2 years, 94 days	2 years, 94 days
9	Jagannath Pahadia		INC	1 year, 38 days	1 year, 38 days
10	Bhajan Lal Sharma *		BJP*	1 year, 4 days*	1 year, 4 days*
11	Heera Lal Shastri		INC	345 days	345 days
12	Tika Ram Paliwal		INC	243 days	243 days
13	C. S. Venkatachar		INC	110 days	110 days
14	Hira Lal Devpura		INC	15 days	15 days

Timeline

Notes

↑ The princely states included Udaipur, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Kota, Bundi, Tonk, Jhalawar, Kishangarh, Alwar, Bharatpur, Sirohi, Dholpur, Karauli, Dungarpur, Banswara, Pratapgarh-Deoliya and Shahpura.
↑ 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.
1 2 3 4 President's rule may be imposed when the "government in a state is not able to function as per the Constitution", which often happens because no party or coalition has a majority in the assembly. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant, and the administration is taken over by the governor, who functions on behalf of the central government. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.^[13]

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References

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↑ Hooja 2006, pp. 1130.
↑ Hooja 2006, pp. 1134–1135.
↑ Hooja 2006, pp. 1135.
↑ Hooja 2006, pp. 1136.
↑ Hooja 2006, pp. 1138.
↑ Hooja 2006, pp. 1139.
↑ Hooja 2006, pp. 1144.
↑ "Former Chief Minister". Rajasthan Legislative Assembly . Retrieved 6 June 2024.
↑ Anand, Akriti (24 November 2023). "BJP Vs Congress in Rajasthan Poll: Why govt has been changing every 5 years". mint. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
↑ "Ashok Gehlot Resigns As Rajasthan Chief Minister As BJP Thumps Congress In Assembly Polls". English Jagran. 3 December 2023. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
↑ "Who is Bhajan Lal Sharma, the new chief minister of Rajasthan". The Times of India. 12 December 2023. ISSN 0971-8257 . Retrieved 14 December 2023.
↑ Amberish K. Diwanji. "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005.

Bibliography

Hooja, Rima (2006). A History of Rajasthan. New Delhi: Rupa & Company. ISBN 9788129108906. OCLC 80362053.

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[2] The princely states included Udaipur, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Kota, Bundi, Tonk, Jhalawar, Kishangarh, Alwar, Bharatpur, Sirohi, Dholpur, Karauli, Dungarpur, Banswara, Pratapgarh-Deoliya and Shahpura.

[14] 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.

[PR-16] 1 2 3 4 President's rule may be imposed when the "government in a state is not able to function as per the Constitution", which often happens because no party or coalition has a majority in the assembly. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant, and the administration is taken over by the governor, who functions on behalf of the central government. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.^[13]

[term1-1] 1 2 Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies to the specific case of Rajasthan as well.

[FOOTNOTEHooja20061130-3] Hooja 2006, pp. 1130.

[FOOTNOTEHooja20061134–1135-4] Hooja 2006, pp. 1134–1135.

[FOOTNOTEHooja20061135-5] Hooja 2006, pp. 1135.

[FOOTNOTEHooja20061136-6] Hooja 2006, pp. 1136.

[FOOTNOTEHooja20061138-7] Hooja 2006, pp. 1138.

[FOOTNOTEHooja20061139-8] Hooja 2006, pp. 1139.

[FOOTNOTEHooja20061144-9] Hooja 2006, pp. 1144.

[10] "Former Chief Minister". Rajasthan Legislative Assembly . Retrieved 6 June 2024.

[11] Anand, Akriti (24 November 2023). "BJP Vs Congress in Rajasthan Poll: Why govt has been changing every 5 years". mint. Retrieved 15 December 2023.

[12] "Ashok Gehlot Resigns As Rajasthan Chief Minister As BJP Thumps Congress In Assembly Polls". English Jagran. 3 December 2023. Retrieved 3 December 2023.

[13] "Who is Bhajan Lal Sharma, the new chief minister of Rajasthan". The Times of India. 12 December 2023. ISSN 0971-8257 . Retrieved 14 December 2023.

[15] Amberish K. Diwanji. "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005.

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