List of current Indian chief ministers

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. 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]

Current ruling parties in India
  BJP (12)
  Coalition with BJP (6)
  INC (4)
  Coalition with INC (2)
  Other parties (AAP, AITC, BJD, CPI(M), TRS and YSRCP) (6)
  President's rule (1)
  No legislature (5)

At present, the office of Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir is vacant. Of the thirty incumbents, one is a woman—Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal. Serving since March 2000 (for 20 years, 342 days), Odisha's Naveen Patnaik has the longest incumbency. Amarinder Singh (b. 1942) of Punjab is the oldest chief minister while Arunachal Pradesh's Pema Khandu (b. 1979) is the youngest.[2] Nitish Kumar has served for the most number of terms (7).[3] Twelve incumbents belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party and four to the Indian National Congress; no other party has more than one chief minister in office.

Current Indian chief ministers
Colour key for parties
  Aam Aadmi Party
  All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
  All India Trinamool Congress
  Bharatiya Janata Party
  Biju Janata Dal
  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  Indian National Congress
  Janata Dal (United)
  Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
  Mizo National Front
  Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party
  National People's Party
  Shiv Sena
  Sikkim Krantikari Morcha
  Telangana Rashtra Samithi
  Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party
  N/A (President's rule)
State
(past chief ministers)		 Name[4] Portrait Took office
(tenure length)		 Party[lower-alpha 1] Ministry Ref
Andhra Pradesh
(list)		 Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy 30 May 2019
(1 year, 256 days)		 YSR Congress Party Reddy [5]
Arunachal Pradesh
(list)		 Pema Khandu 17 July 2016
(4 years, 208 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Khandu II [6][7]
Assam
(list)		 Sarbananda Sonowal 24 May 2016
(4 years, 262 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Sonowal [8]
Bihar
(list)		 Nitish Kumar 22 February 2015
(5 years, 354 days)		 Janata Dal (United) Nitish Kumar VII [9]
Chhattisgarh
(list)		 Bhupesh Baghel 17 December 2018
(2 years, 55 days)		 Indian National Congress Baghel [10]
Delhi[lower-alpha 2]
(list)		 Arvind Kejriwal 14 February 2015
(5 years, 362 days)		 Aam Aadmi Party Kejriwal III [11]
Goa
(list)		 Pramod Sawant 19 March 2019
(1 year, 328 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Sawant [12]
Gujarat
(list)		 Vijay Rupani 7 August 2016
(4 years, 187 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Rupani II [13]
Haryana
(list)		 Manohar Lal Khattar 26 October 2014
(6 years, 107 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Khattar II [14]
Himachal Pradesh
(list)		 Jai Ram Thakur 27 December 2017
(3 years, 45 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Thakur [15]
Jammu and Kashmir[lower-alpha 2]
(list)		 N/A
(President's rule)		 31 October 2019
(1 year, 102 days)		 N/A N/A [16]
Jharkhand
(list)		 Hemant Soren 29 December 2019
(1 year, 43 days)		 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Soren II [17]
Karnataka
(list)		 B. S. Yediyurappa 26 July 2019
(1 year, 199 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Yediyurappa IV [18]
Kerala
(list)		 Pinarayi Vijayan 25 May 2016
(4 years, 261 days)		 Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vijayan [19]
Madhya Pradesh
(list)		 Shivraj Singh Chouhan 23 March 2020
(324 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Chouhan IV [20]
Maharashtra
(list)		 Uddhav Thackeray 28 November 2019
(1 year, 74 days)		 Shiv Sena Thackeray [21]
Manipur
(list)		 N. Biren Singh 15 March 2017
(3 years, 332 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Biren [22]
Meghalaya
(list)		 Conrad Sangma 6 March 2018
(2 years, 341 days)		 National People's Party Sangma [23]
Mizoram
(list)		 Zoramthanga 15 December 2018
(2 years, 57 days)		 Mizo National Front Zoramthanga III [24]
Nagaland
(list)		 Neiphiu Rio 8 March 2018
(2 years, 339 days)		 Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party Rio IV [25]
Odisha
(list)		 Naveen Patnaik 5 March 2000
(20 years, 342 days)		 Biju Janata Dal Patnaik V [26]
Puducherry[lower-alpha 2]
(list)		 V. Narayanasamy 6 June 2016
(4 years, 249 days)		 Indian National Congress Narayanasamy [27]
Punjab
(list)		 Amarinder Singh 16 March 2017
(3 years, 331 days)		 Indian National Congress Amarinder II [28]
Rajasthan
(list)		 Ashok Gehlot 17 December 2018
(2 years, 55 days)		 Indian National Congress Gehlot III [29]
Sikkim
(list)		 Prem Singh Tamang 27 May 2019
(1 year, 259 days)		 Sikkim Krantikari Morcha Tamang [30]
Tamil Nadu
(list)		 Edappadi K. Palaniswami 16 February 2017
(3 years, 360 days)		 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Palaniswami [31]
Telangana
(list)		 K. Chandrashekhar Rao 2 June 2014
(6 years, 253 days)		 Telangana Rashtra Samithi Rao II [32]
Tripura
(list)		 Biplab Kumar Deb 9 March 2018
(2 years, 338 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Deb [33]
Uttar Pradesh
(list)		 Yogi Adityanath 19 March 2017
(3 years, 328 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Yogi Adityanath [34]
Uttarakhand
(list)		 Trivendra Singh Rawat 18 March 2017
(3 years, 329 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Rawat [35]
West Bengal
(list)		 Mamata Banerjee 20 May 2011
(9 years, 266 days)		 All India Trinamool Congress Banerjee II [36]

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. 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.

See also

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