List of chief ministers of Telangana
Chief Minister of Telangana | |
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Telaṅgāṇa Mukhyamantri | |
File:Government of Telangana Logo.png | |
Chief Minister's Office | |
Style | The Honourable (Formal) Mr./Mrs. Chief Minister (Informal) |
Member of | |
Residence | Pragathi Bhavan |
Seat | Telangana State Guesthouse |
Appointer | Governor of Telangana |
Inaugural holder | K. Chandrashekar Rao |
Formation | 2 June 2014 |
Deputy | Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana |
Salary |
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Website | www |
The chief minister of Telangana is the chief executive of the Indian state of Telangana. 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 Telangana 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 that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]
Since the state's creation on 2 June 2014,[2] Telangana has had only one chief minister, who belongs to Telangana Rashtra Samithi party, its founder and former Union Minister of Labour and Employment K. Chandrashekar Rao is an inaugural and current holder of the office who sworn in two times by winning the 2014 and 2018 assembly elections consecutively.
The current incumbent is K. Chandrashekar Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi since 2 June 2014.
List[edit]
- Legend
- Key
- † Assassinated or died in office
- § Returned to office after a previous non-consecutive term
- RES Resigned
No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office[3] | Assembly (election) |
Party | |||
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1 | ![]() |
K. Chandrashekar Rao | Gajwel | 2 June 2014 | 12 December 2018 | 10 years, 272 days | 1st (2014 election) |
Telangana Rashtra Samithi | |
13 December 2018 | Incumbent | 2nd (2018 election) |
Statistics[edit]
- List of chief ministers by length of term
No. | Name | Party | Length of term | |
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Longest continuous term | Total years of premiership | |||
1 | K. Chandrashekar Rao | TRS | 10 years, 272 days | 10 years, 272 days |
- List by party
No. | Political party | Number of Chief ministers | Total days of holding CMO |
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1 | Telangana Rashtra Samithi | 1 | 3925 days |
- Parties by total duration (in days) of holding Chief Minister's Office

Living former chief minister[edit]
As of 1 March 2025, there is no living former chief minister of Telangana:
See also[edit]
- History of Telangana
- Elections in Telangana
- Telangana Secretariat
- Telangana Legislative Assembly
- List of current Indian chief ministers
- List of deputy chief ministers of Telangana
- List of chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 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 for the specific case of Telangana as well.
- ↑ Shankar, Kunal (26 June 2015). "A mixed bag". Frontline. Archived from the original on 2 February 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ↑ The ordinal number of the term being served by the person specified in the row in the corresponding period