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, 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 state government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Out of the thirty incumbents, except Tamil Nadu's M. K. Stalin, all other Chief Ministers also act as the leader of the house in their Legislative Assemblies. Given they have the assembly's confidence, the chief minister's term is usually for a maximum of five years; there are no limits to the number of terms they can serve.[1]

As of January 2024, the office of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir is vacant with no new elections having been held ever since the autonomy of the former state was revoked. Of the thirty incumbents, only one is a woman — Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal. Serving since 5 March 2000 (for 23 years, 313 days), Odisha's Naveen Patnaik has the longest incumbency. Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan (aged 78) is the oldest Chief Minister, while Arunachal Pradesh's Pema Khandu (aged 44) is the youngest Chief Minister.[2] Nitish Kumar of Bihar has served for the most terms (8).[3] Twelve incumbents belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party, three to the Indian National Congress and two to the Aam Aadmi Party. No other party has more than one chief minister in office.

All current Indian chief ministers of states/union territories

State Name[4] Portrait Took office
(tenure length)		 Party[lower-alpha 1] Alliance Ministry Ref
Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy 30 May 2019
(4 years, 227 days)		 YSR Congress Party None Reddy [5]
Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu 17 July 2016
(7 years, 179 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party NDA Khandu IV [6][7]
Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma 10 May 2021
(2 years, 247 days)		 Sarma [8][9]
Bihar Nitish Kumar
22 February 2015
(8 years, 324 days)		 Janata Dal (United) INDIA Nitish Kumar VIII [10]
Chhattisgarh Vishnudeo Sai 13 December 2023
(30 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party NDA Sai
Delhi[lower-alpha 2] Arvind Kejriwal 14 February 2015
(8 years, 332 days)		 Aam Aadmi Party INDIA Kejriwal III [11]
Goa Pramod Sawant 19 March 2019
(4 years, 299 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party NDA Sawant II [12]
Gujarat Bhupendrabhai Patel 13 September 2021
(2 years, 121 days)		 Patel II 13
Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar 26 October 2014
(9 years, 78 days)		 Khattar II [13]
Himachal Pradesh Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu 11 December 2022
(1 year, 32 days)		 Indian National Congress INDIA Sukhu [14]
Jammu and Kashmir Vacant

(President rule)
19 June 2018
(5 years, 207 days)		 N/A N/A N/A [15]
Jharkhand Hemant Soren 29 December 2019
(4 years, 14 days)		 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha INDIA Soren II [16]
Karnataka Siddaramaiah 20 May 2023
(237 days)		 Indian National Congress Siddaramaiah II
Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan 25 May 2016
(7 years, 232 days)		 Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vijayan II [17]
Madhya Pradesh Mohan Yadav
13 December 2023
(30 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party NDA Yadav [18]
Maharashtra Eknath Shinde 30 June 2022
(1 year, 196 days)		 Shiv Sena Shinde [19]
Manipur N. Biren Singh
15 March 2017
(6 years, 303 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Singh II [20]
Meghalaya Conrad Sangma 6 March 2018
(5 years, 312 days)		 National People's Party Sangma II [21]
Mizoram Lalduhoma 8 December 2023
(35 days)		 Zoram People's Movement None Lalduhoma [22]
Nagaland Neiphiu Rio
8 March 2018
(5 years, 310 days)		 Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party NDA Rio V [23]
Odisha Naveen Patnaik
5 March 2000
(23 years, 313 days)		 Biju Janata Dal None Patnaik V [24]
Puducherry[lower-alpha 2] N. Rangaswamy
7 May 2021
(2 years, 250 days)		 All India N.R. Congress NDA Rangaswamy IV [25]
Punjab Bhagwant Singh Mann 16 March 2022
(1 year, 302 days)		 Aam Aadmi Party INDIA Mann
Rajasthan Bhajan Lal Sharma 15 December 2023
(28 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party NDA Sharma [26]
Sikkim Prem Singh Tamang
27 May 2019
(4 years, 230 days)		 Sikkim Krantikari Morcha Tamang [27]
Tamil Nadu M. K. Stalin
7 May 2021
(2 years, 250 days)		 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam INDIA Stalin [28]
Telangana Revanth Reddy 7 December 2023
(36 days)		 Indian National Congress Reddy
Tripura Manik Saha 15 May 2022
(1 year, 242 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party NDA Saha II [29]
Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath 19 March 2017
(6 years, 299 days)		 Adityanath II [30]
Uttarakhand Pushkar Singh Dhami 4 July 2021
(2 years, 192 days)		 Dhami II [31]
West Bengal Mamata Banerjee 20 May 2011
(12 years, 237 days)		 All India Trinamool Congress INDIA Banerjee III [32]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ This column names only the chief minister's party. The ministry(s) he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; those are not listed here.
  2. 1 2 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 union territories.

References

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