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 13 September 2021, 48 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister, out of which twelve are incumbent.

A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight states and three union territories (UTs) (Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir 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. Given he/she has 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 he/she can serve.[5]

Of the 48 BJP chief ministers, twelve are incumbent — Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Bhupendrabhai Patel in Gujarat, Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana, Jai Ram Thakur in Himachal Pradesh, Basavaraj Bommai in Karnataka, Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh, N. Biren Singh in Manipur, Biplab Kumar Deb 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. Raman Singh, who was chief minister of Chhattisgarh for 15 years and 9 days between December 2003 and December 2018 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, four chief ministers in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh each, and three in Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand each.

Arunachal Pradesh[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Gegong Apang[lower-greek 1] Gegong Apang.jpg 31 August 2003 29 August 2004 364 days
Pema Khandu*[lower-greek 2] Pema Khandu in July 2016.jpg 31 December 2016 28 May 2019 2 years, 148 days
29 May 2019 Incumbent 4 years, 248 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Assam[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Sarbananda Sonowal Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.jpg 24 May 2016 9 May 2021 4 years, 350 days
Himanta Biswa Sarma* 10 May 2021 Incumbent 2 years, 267 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Chhattisgarh[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Raman Singh The former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Dr. Raman Singh.jpg 7 December 2003 11 December 2008 5 years, 4 days
12 December 2008 11 December 2013 4 years, 364 days
12 December 2013 16 December 2018 5 years, 4 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Delhi[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Madan Lal Khurana Madan Lal Khurana.jpg 2 December 1993 26 February 1996 2 years, 86 days
Sahib Singh Verma The Union Labour Minister Dr. Sahib Singh chairing the 165th Meeting of the CBT, Employees Provident Fund in New Delhi on December 3, 2003 (Wednesday) (cropped).jpg 26 February 1996 12 October 1998 2 years, 228 days
Sushma Swaraj Sushma Swaraj - 2018 (45124842302) (cropped).jpg 12 October 1998 3 December 1998 52 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Goa[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Manohar Parrikar The official photograph of the Union Minister for Defence, Shri Manohar Parrikar.jpg 24 October 2000 2 June 2002 1 year, 221 days
3 June 2002 2 February 2005 2 years, 244 days
9 March 2012 8 November 2014 2 years, 244 days
14 March 2017 17 March 2019 2 years, 3 days
Laxmikant Parsekar Laxmikant Parsekar.jpg 8 November 2014 13 March 2017 2 years, 125 days
Pramod Sawant* The Chief Minister of Goa, Shri Pramod Sawant.jpg 19 March 2019 Incumbent 4 years, 319 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Gujarat[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Keshubhai Patel Keshubhai Patel.jpg 14 March 1995 21 October 1995 221 days
4 March 1998 6 October 2001 3 years, 216 days
Suresh Mehta Nophoto.jpg 21 October 1995 19 September 1996 334 days
Narendra Modi PM Modi Portrait(cropped).jpg 7 October 2001 21 December 2002 1 year, 75 days
22 December 2002 22 December 2007 5 years, 0 days
23 December 2007 25 December 2012 5 years, 2 days
26 December 2012 21 May 2014 1 year, 146 days
Anandiben Patel Anandiben Patel Ji.jpg 22 May 2014 6 August 2016 2 years, 76 days
Vijay Rupani Vijay Rupani.jpg 7 August 2016 25 December 2017 1 year, 140 days
26 December 2017 13 September 2021 3 years, 261 days
Bhupendrabhai Patel Bhupendra PAtel Sanskrit.jpg 13 September 2021 Incumbent 2 years, 141 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Haryana[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Manohar Lal Khattar* Manohar Lal Khattar 2015.jpg 26 October 2014 26 October 2019 5 years, 0 days
27 October 2019 Incumbent 4 years, 97 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Himachal Pradesh[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Shanta Kumar[lower-greek 3] Shanta Kumar.jpg 5 March 1990 15 December 1992 2 years, 285 days
Prem Kumar Dhumal Prem Kumar Dhumal.jpg 24 March 1998 5 March 2003 4 years, 346 days
30 December 2007 25 December 2012 4 years, 361 days
Jai Ram Thakur* JRThakur.jpg 27 December 2017 Incumbent 6 years, 36 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Jharkhand[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Babulal Marandi 15 November 2000 18 March 2003 2 years, 123 days
Arjun Munda Arjun Munda.jpg 18 March 2003 2 March 2005 1 year, 349 days
12 March 2005 19 September 2006 1 year, 191 days
11 September 2010 18 January 2013 2 years, 129 days
Raghubar Das Raghuvar Das.jpg 28 December 2014 29 December 2019 5 years, 1 day
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Karnataka[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
B. S. Yediyurappa The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri B.S. Yediyurappa.jpg 12 November 2007 19 November 2007 7 days
30 May 2008 4 August 2011 3 years, 66 days
17 May 2018 23 May 2018 6 days
26 July 2019 28 July 2021 2 years, 2 days
D. V. Sadananda Gowda Sadananda Gowda.jpg 5 August 2011 12 July 2012 342 days
Jagadish Shettar Jagadish Shettar.jpg 12 July 2012 13 May 2013 305 days
Basavaraj Bommai* Shri Basavaraj Bommai calling on the Union Minister for Defence, Shri Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi on July 30 2021.jpg 28 July 2021 Incumbent 2 years, 188 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Madhya Pradesh[edit]

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Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Sunder Lal Patwa[lower-greek 5] Nophoto.jpg 5 March 1990 15 December 1992 2 years, 285 days
Uma Bharti Uma Bharati in 2014.jpg 8 December 2003 22 August 2004 258 days
Babulal Gaur Babulal gaur.jpg 23 August 2004 28 November 2005 1 year, 97 days
Shivraj Singh Chouhan Shivraj Singh Chauhan (cropped).jpg 29 November 2005 11 December 2008 3 years, 12 days
12 December 2008 13 December 2013 5 years, 1 day
14 December 2013 16 December 2018 5 years, 2 days
23 March 2020 Incumbent 3 years, 315 days


Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Maharashtra[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Devendra Fadnavis Devendra fadnavis.png 31 October 2014 08 November 2019 5 years, 8 days
23 November 2019 26 November 2019 3 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Manipur[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
N. Biren Singh* N. Biren Singh.jpg 15 March 2017 Incumbent 6 years, 323 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Rajasthan[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat[lower-greek 6] BS Shekhawat (cropped).jpg 4 March 1990 15 December 1992 2 years, 286 days
4 December 1993 29 November 1998 4 years, 360 days
Vasundhara Raje Vasundhra Raje.jpg 8 December 2003 11 December 2008 5 years, 3 days
13 December 2013 16 December 2018 5 years, 3 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Tripura[edit]

The Left Front government was defeated after 25 years of office out in 2018 election, with the Bharatiya Janata Party winning majority of seats and Biplab Kumar Deb becoming the first Chief Minister of Tripura from the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Biplab Kumar Deb* 9 March 2018 Incumbent 5 years, 329 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Uttar Pradesh[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Kalyan Singh Kalyan Singh1.jpg 24 June 1991 6 December 1992 1 year, 165 days
21 September 1997 11 November 1999 2 years, 51 days
Ram Prakash Gupta Nophoto.jpg 12 November 1999 27 October 2000 350 days
Rajnath Singh Rajnath.jpg 28 October 2000 7 March 2002 1 year, 130 days
Yogi Adityanath* The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Shri Yogi Adityanath meeting the President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on February 10, 2018 (cropped).jpg 19 March 2017 Incumbent 6 years, 319 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

Uttarakhand[edit]

Name Portrait Term in office
Start End Tenure
Nityanand Swami Nophoto.jpg 9 November 2000 29 October 2001 354 days
Bhagat Singh Koshyari Bhagatsinghkoshyari.jpg 30 October 2001 1 March 2002 122 days
B. C. Khanduri 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 7 March 2007 26 June 2009 2 years, 111 days
11 September 2011 13 March 2012 184 days
Ramesh Pokhriyal Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, in New Delhi on February 20, 2020 (cropped).jpg 27 June 2009 10 September 2011 2 years, 75 days
Trivendra Singh Rawat The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat.jpg 18 March 2017 10 March 2021 3 years, 357 days
Tirath Singh Rawat The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Tirath Singh Rawat.jpg 10 March 2021 4 July 2021 116 days
Pushkar Singh Dhami* 4 July 2021 Incumbent 2 years, 212 days
Key
  • *  – Incumbent Chief Minister

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. Apang was a member of the INC while becoming the chief minister for the first time.[7] However, he left the INC and formed the Arunachal Congress in 1996,[8] and remained the chief minister till 1999.[7] He was reelected as the chief minister in August 2003,[7] and his party merged with the BJP in the same month.[9] However, he again joined the INC in August 2004,[8] and remained seated on the post of chief minister till 2007.[7] He once again joined the BJP in February 2014,[10] but left it in January 2019 and joined the Janata Dal (Secular) in February 2019.[11]
  2. Khandu became the chief minister in July 2016 while being a member of the INC.[12] He joined the People's Party of Arunachal in September 2016,[12] and later defected to the BJP in December 2016.[13]
  3. Shanta Kumar became the chief minister for the first time (1977–1980) while being a member of the JP.[7]
  4. Kailash Chandra Joshi is a BJP leader who became Madhya Pradesh chief minister in 1977 as a member of JP.[7] Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha, who became Madhya Pradesh chief minister in 1978 as a JP member, was also a BJP leader.[7]
  5. Patwa became the chief minister for the first time (January 1980 – February 1980) while being a member of the JP.[7]
  6. Shekhawat became the chief minister for the first time (1977–1980) while being a member of the JP.

References[edit]

General
  • "States of India since 1947". worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
Specific
  1. Edward A. Gargan (29 November 1993). "India's Two Major Political Parties Stumble in Regional Elections". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  2. "In Numbers: The Rise of BJP and decline of Congress". The Times of India. 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. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 "States of India since 1947". worldstatesmen.org. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  8. 8.0 8.1 "Apang back in Cong fold". The Economic Times. 29 August 2004. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  9. "BJP bags its first NE state". The Economic Times. 31 August 2003. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  10. "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.
  11. "Arunachal veteran Gegong Apang joins Devegowda's JD(S)". Business Standard. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  12. 12.0 12.1 "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.
  13. "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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