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). , it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament. Established in 1980, the BJP's platform is generally considered as the right wing of the political spectrum. , 58 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister out of which seventeen are incumbent.
A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight states and two union territories (UTs) (Delhi 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. The chief minister's term is usually for a maximum of five years, with the confidence of the assembly's confidence. There are no limits to the number of terms the chief minister can serve.
Of the 58 BJP chief ministers, seventeen are incumbent – Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam, Samrat Choudhary in Bihar, Vishnu Deo Sai in Chhattisgarh, Rekha Gupta in Delhi, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Bhupendrabhai Patel in Gujarat, Nayab Singh Saini in Haryana, Mohan Yadav in Madhya Pradesh, Devendra Fadnavis in Maharashtra, Yumnam Khemchand Singh in Manipur, Mohan Charan Majhi in Odisha, Bhajan Lal Sharma in Rajasthan, Manik Saha in Tripura, Pushkar Singh Dhami in Uttarakhand, Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh and Suvendu Adhikari in West Bengal .Five 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. Shivraj Singh Chauhan, as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh for longer than 15 years is 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.
There have been seven chief ministers in Uttarakhand from the BJP, six chief ministers in Gujarat, five chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh, four chief ministers in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh and Delhi each, and three in Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand each; two in Haryana , Manipur, Chhattisgarh, Tripura, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh each; and one in Bihar, Odisha, Maharashtra and West Bengal each. It has never had chief ministers in Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana.
Arunachal Pradesh #PortraitNameConstituencyTerm in officeAssembly1 Gegong ApangTuting–Yingkiong31 August 2003 29 August 2004 6th2 Pema KhanduMukto31 December 201628 May 2019 9th29 May 201912 June 202410th13 June 2024Incumbent11th Key – Incumbent chief minister
Assam
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Sarbananda SonowalMajuli24 May 201610 May 2021 14th2 Himanta Biswa SarmaJalukbari10 May 2021Incumbent15th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Bihar
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in office Assembly1Samrat ChoudharyTarapur15 April 2026Incumbent 18th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Chhattisgarh
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Raman SinghDongargaon7 December 200311 December 20082ndRajnandgaon12 December 200811 December 20133rd12 December 201317 December 20184th2 Vishnu Deo SaiKunkuri13 December 2023Incumbent6th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Delhi #PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Madan Lal KhuranaMoti Nagar 2 December 1993 26 February 19961st2 Sahib Singh VermaShalimar Bagh26 February 199612 October 19983 Sushma SwarajDid not contest 12 October 1998 3 December 19984 Rekha GuptaShalimar Bagh 20 February 2025 Incumbent 8th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Goa
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Manohar ParrikarPanaji24 October 20002 June 20028 years, 349 days8th3 June 20023 February 20059th9 March 20128 November 201411th14 March 201717 March 201912th2 Laxmikant ParsekarMandrem8 November 201414 March 201711th3 Pramod SawantSanquelim19 March 201927 March 202212th28 March 2022Incumbent13th Key – Incumbent chief minister
Gujarat
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1Keshubhai PatelVisavadar14 March 199521 October 19954 years, 73 days9th4 March 19987 October 200110th2 Suresh MehtaMandvi21 October 199519 September 19969th3Narendra ModiRajkot West7 October 200121 December 200210thManinagar22 December 200222 December 200711th23 December 200725 December 201212th26 December 201222 May 201413th4 Anandiben PatelGhatlodia22 May 20147 August 20165 Vijay RupaniRajkot West7 August 201625 December 201726 December 201713 September 202114th6 Bhupendrabhai PatelGhatlodia13 September 202111 December 202212 December 2022Incumbent15th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Haryana
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Manohar Lal KhattarKarnal26 October 201426 October 201913th27 October 201912 March 202414th2 Nayab Singh Saini12 March 202417 October 2024Ladwa17 October 2024Incumbent15th Key – Incumbent chief minister
Himachal Pradesh
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Shanta KumarPalampur5 March 199015 December 19927th2 Prem Kumar DhumalBamsan24 March 19986 March 20039 years, 343 days9th30 December 200725 December 201211th3 Jai Ram ThakurSeraj27 December 201711 December 202213th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Jharkhand
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Babulal MarandiRamgarh15 November 200018 March 20031st2 Arjun MundaKharsawan18 March 20032 March 20055 years, 304 days12 March 200519 September 20062nd11 September 201018 January 20133rd3 Raghubar DasJamshedpur East28 December 201429 December 20194th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Karnataka #PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1B. S. YediyurappaShikaripura12 November 200719 November 20075 years, 81 days12th30 May 20085 August 201113th17 May 201823 May 201815th26 July 201928 July 20212 Sadananda GowdaMLC5 August 201112 July 201213th3 Jagadish ShettarHubli-Dharwad Central12 July 201213 May 20134 Basavaraj BommaiShiggaon28 July 202120 May 202315th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Madhya Pradesh
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Sunder Lal PatwaBhojpur5 March 199015 December 19929th2 Uma BhartiMalhara8 December 200323 August 200412th3 Babulal GaurGovindpura23 August 200428 November 20054Shivraj Singh ChouhanBudhni29 November 200511 December 200816 years, 282 days12 December 200813 December 201313th14 December 201317 December 201814th23 March 202013 December 202315th5Mohan YadavUjjain South13 December 2023Incumbent 16th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Maharashtra #PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1Devendra FadnavisNagpur South West31 October 201412 November 201913th23 November 201928 November 201914th5 December 2024Incumbent15th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Manipur
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 N. Biren SinghHeignang15 March 201720 March 202212th21 March 202213 February 202513th2 Yumnam Khemchand SinghSingjamei4 February 2026Incumbent
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Odisha
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in office Assembly1 Mohan Charan MajhiKeonjhar12 June 2024Incumbent 17th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Rajasthan
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Bhairon Singh ShekhawatChhabra4 March 199015 December 19927 years, 283 days9thBali4 December 19931 December 199810th2 Vasundhara RajeJhalrapatan8 December 200312 December 200810 years, 8 days12th13 December 201317 December 201814th3Bhajan Lal SharmaSanganer15 December 2023Incumbent16th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Tripura #PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Biplab Kumar DebBanamalipur9 March 201815 May 202212th2Manik SahaTown Bordowali15 May 20227 March 20238 March 2023Incumbent13th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Uttar Pradesh
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1Kalyan SinghAtrauli24 June 19916 December 19923 years, 217 days11th21 September 199712 November 199913th2 Ram Prakash GuptaMLC12 November 199928 October 20003 Rajnath SinghHaidergarh28 October 20008 March 20024 Yogi AdityanathMLC 19 March 2017 24 March 2022 17thGorakhpur Urban25 March 2022Incumbent18th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
Uttarakhand
#PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Nityanand SwamiMLC9 November 200030 October 2001Interim2 Bhagat Singh KoshyariMLC30 October 20011 March 20023B. C. KhanduriDhumakot7 March 200727 June 20092 years, 296 days2nd11 September 201113 March 20124 Ramesh PokhriyalThalisain27 June 200911 September 20115 Trivendra Singh RawatDoiwala18 March 201710 March 20214th6 Tirath Singh RawatDid not Contest10 March 20214 July 20217Pushkar Singh DhamiKhatima4 July 202122 March 2022Champawat23 March 2022Incumbent5th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
West Bengal #PortraitNameConstituency Term in officeAssembly1 Suvendu Adhikari Bhabanipur9 May 2026Incumbent 18th
Key – Incumbent chief minister
See also
List of current Indian chief ministers List of current Indian deputy chief ministers List of longest-serving Indian chief ministers List of female chief ministers in India List of chief ministers from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) List of chief ministers from the Indian National Congress
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