List of current Indian chief ministers

Ruling parties (left) and alliances in Indian states (January 2026)

In the Republic of India, a chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight states and three of the eight union territories. According to the Constitution of India, at the state level, the governor is de jure head, and the de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the 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. Given they have the assembly's confidence, the chief minister's term is for a maximum of five years. There are no limits to the number of terms they can serve. ^[1]

The chief minister usually serves as the leader of the house in the respective legislative assembly. ^[2] Out of the thirty incumbents, except Tamil Nadu's M. K. Stalin, ^[a] all other chief ministers also act as the leader of the house.

Of the 31 incumbents, fifteen incumbents belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party and three to the Indian National Congress, with no other party having more than one chief minister in office. Nitish Kumar from Bihar, has had the longest tenure (19 years, 170 days) as a chief minister. ^[4] Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal, serving since 20 March 2011 (for 14 years, 263 days), has the longest continuous incumbency. Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan (aged 80) is the oldest and Pema Khandu (aged 46), from Arunachal Pradesh is the youngest. Banejee and Delhi's Rekha Gupta are the only two incumbent female chief ministers.

List of chief ministers

List of chief ministers ^[5]

No.	State/UT	Portrait	Name	Took office (tenure length)	Party [b]		Alliance	Ministry	Ref
1	Andhra Pradesh		N. Chandrababu Naidu	12 June 2024 (1 year, 240 days)	Telugu Desam Party		NDA (Kutami)	Naidu IV	[6]
2	Arunachal Pradesh		Pema Khandu	17 July 2016 (9 years, 205 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Khandu V	[7] [8]
3	Assam		Himanta Biswa Sarma	10 May 2021 (4 years, 273 days)				Sarma	[9]
4	Bihar		Nitish Kumar	22 February 2015 (10 years, 350 days)	Janata Dal (United)			Nitish X	[4]
5	Chhattisgarh		Vishnu Deo Sai	13 December 2023 (2 years, 56 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party			Sai	[10]
6	Delhi [c]		Rekha Gupta	20 February 2025 (352 days)				Gupta	[11]
7	Goa		Pramod Sawant	19 March 2019 (6 years, 325 days)				Sawant II	[12]
8	Gujarat		Bhupendrabhai Patel	13 September 2021 (4 years, 147 days)				Patel II	[13]
9	Haryana		Nayab Singh Saini	12 March 2024 (1 year, 332 days)				Saini II	[14]
10	Himachal Pradesh		Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu	11 December 2022 (3 years, 58 days)	Indian National Congress		INDIA	Sukhu	[15]
11	Jammu and Kashmir [c]		Omar Abdullah	16 October 2024 (1 year, 114 days)	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference			Abdullah II	[16]
12	Jharkhand		Hemant Soren	4 July 2024 (1 year, 218 days)	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha		INDIA (MGB)	Soren IV	[17]
13	Karnataka		Siddaramaiah	20 May 2023 (2 years, 263 days)	Indian National Congress		INDIA	Siddaramaiah II	[18]
14	Kerala		Pinarayi Vijayan	25 May 2016 (9 years, 258 days)	Communist Party of India (Marxist)		INDIA (LDF)	Vijayan II	[19]
15	Madhya Pradesh		Mohan Yadav	13 December 2023 (2 years, 56 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Yadav	[20]
16	Maharashtra		Devendra Fadnavis	5 December 2024 (1 year, 64 days)			NDA (MY)	Fadnavis III	[21]
17	Manipur		Yumnam Khemchand Singh	4 February 2026 (3 days)			NDA	Singh	[22]
18	Meghalaya		Conrad Sangma	6 March 2018 (7 years, 338 days)	National People's Party		NDA (MDA)	Sangma II	[23]
19	Mizoram		Lalduhoma	8 December 2023 (2 years, 61 days)	Zoram People's Movement		None	Lalduhoma	[24]
20	Nagaland		Neiphiu Rio	8 March 2018 (7 years, 336 days)	Naga People's Front		NDA (PDA)	Rio V	[25]
21	Odisha		Mohan Charan Majhi	12 June 2024 (1 year, 240 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Majhi	[26]
22	Punjab		Bhagwant Mann	16 March 2022 (3 years, 328 days)	Aam Aadmi Party		None	Mann	[27]
23	Puducherry [c]		N. Rangaswamy	7 May 2021 (4 years, 276 days)	All India N.R. Congress		NDA	Rangaswamy IV	[28]
24	Rajasthan		Bhajan Lal Sharma	15 December 2023 (2 years, 54 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party			Sharma	[29]
25	Sikkim		Prem Singh Tamang	27 May 2019 (6 years, 256 days)	Sikkim Krantikari Morcha			Tamang II	[30]
26	Tamil Nadu		M. K. Stalin	7 May 2021 (4 years, 276 days)	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam		INDIA	Stalin	[31]
27	Telangana		Revanth Reddy	7 December 2023 (2 years, 62 days)	Indian National Congress			Reddy	[32]
28	Tripura		Manik Saha	15 May 2022 (3 years, 268 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Saha II	[33]
29	Uttarakhand		Pushkar Singh Dhami	4 July 2021 (4 years, 218 days)				Dhami II	[34]
30	Uttar Pradesh		Yogi Adityanath	19 March 2017 (8 years, 325 days)				Yogi II	[35]
31	West Bengal		Mamata Banerjee	20 May 2011 (14 years, 263 days)	Trinamool Congress		INDIA	Banerjee III	[36]

See also

• List of current Indian chief justices
• List of current Indian deputy chief ministers
• List of current Indian governors
• List of current Indian legislative speakers and chairpersons
• List of current Indian lieutenant governors and administrators
• List of current Indian opposition leaders
• List of Indian chief ministers who died in office
• List of prime ministers of India
• List of presidents of India
• List of vice presidents of India

Notes

1. Durai Murugan serves as the leader of the house in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. ^[3]
2. Only the chief minister's party is indicated. They may head a complex coalition of several parties and independents, which are not listed here.
3. Although Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry each have an elected legislature and a council of ministers (headed by the chief minister), they are officially classified as union territories.

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