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 May 2018, 42 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister, out of which sixteen are incumbent. A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-nine 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. 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 42 BJP chief ministers, fifteen are incumbent — Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam, Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh, Manohar Parrikar in Goa, Vijay Rupani in Gujarat, Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana, Jai Ram Thakur in Himachal Pradesh, Raghubar Das in Jharkhand, Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh, Devendra Fadnavis in Maharashtra, N. Biren Singh in Manipur, Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan, Biplab Kumar Deb in Tripura, Trivendra Singh Rawat in Uttarakhand, and Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh. Four of BJP chief ministers are/have been women — Sushma Swaraj in Delhi, Uma Bharti in Madhya Pradesh, Anandiben Patel in Gujarat and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Holding the post since December 2003 (for 14 years, 317 days), Raman Singh is the longest-serving chief minister from the BJP. Karnataka's B. S. Yeddyurappa's third tenure as the chief minister lasted for only six days, which is the least tenure among chief ministers from BJP; however, taking the total of all the tenures into consideration, Swaraj served as a chief minister 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 five chief ministers from the BJP in Gujarat and Uttarakhand each, four chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh each, and three in Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Karnataka each.

Chief Ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party

Key
  • *  – Incumbent chief minister
State Name Portrait Term(s) Total tenure length (days) Tenure(s) description
Arunachal Pradesh Gegong Apang[lower-greek 1] 1 364 31 August 2003 – 29 August 2004
(364)
Pema Khandu*[lower-greek 2] 1 658 31 December 2016 – present
(658)
Assam Sarbananda Sonowal*
Sarbananda Sonowal
 1 879 24 May 2016 – present
(879)
Chhattisgarh Raman Singh* 3 5431 7 December 2003 – present
(5431)
Delhi Madan Lal Khurana 1 816 2 December 1993 – 26 February 1996
(816)
Sahib Singh Verma – 1 959 26 February 1996 – 12 October 1998
(959)
Sushma Swaraj 1 52 12 October 1998 – 3 December 1998
(52)
Goa Manohar Parrikar* 3 3133 12 October 2000 – 2 February 2005
(1574)
9 March 2012 – 8 November 2014
(974)
14 March 2017 – present
(585)
Laxmikant Parsekar 1 857 8 November 2014 - 14 March 2017
(857)
Gujarat Keshubhai Patel 2 1407 19 May 1995 – 21 October 1995
(155)
4 May 1998 – 7 October 2001
(1252)
Suresh Mehta – 1 272 21 October 1995 – 19 July 1996
(272)
Narendra Modi 4 4610 7 October 2001 – 22 May 2014
(4610)
Anandiben Patel 1 808 22 May 2014 – 7 August 2016
(808)
Vijay Rupani* 1 804 7 August 2016 – present
(804)
Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar* 1 1455 26 October 2014 – present
(1455)
Himachal Pradesh Shanta Kumar[lower-greek 3] – 1 1369 5 March 1990 – 3 December 1993
(1369)
Prem Kumar Dhumal – 2 3783 24 May 1998 – 6 March 2003
(1747)
30 May 2007 – 25 December 2012
(2036)
Jai Ram Thakur* 1 297 27 December 2017 – present
(297)
Jharkhand Babulal Marandi – 1 853 15 November 2000 – 18 March 2003
(853)
Arjun Munda 3 2276 18 March 2003 – 2 March 2005
(715)
12 March 2005 – 18 September 2006
(555)
11 September 2010 – 13 June 2013
(1006)
Raghubar Das* 1 1392 28 December 2014 – present
(1392)
Karnataka B. S. Yeddyurappa 3 1176 11 November 2007 – 20 November 2007
(9)
30 May 2008 – 4 August 2011
(1161)
17 May 2018 – 23 May 2018
(6)
D. V. Sadananda Gowda 1 313 4 August 2011 – 12 June 2012
(313)
Jagadish Shettar 1 335 12 June 2012 – 13 May 2013
(335)
Madhya Pradesh[lower-greek 4] Sunder Lal Patwa[lower-greek 5] – 1 1016 5 March 1990 – 15 December 1992
(1016)
Uma Bharti 1 259 8 December 2003 – 23 August 2004
(259)
Babulal Gaur 1 463 23 August 2004 – 29 November 2005
(463)
Shivraj Singh Chouhan* 3 4708 29 November 2005 – present
(4708)
Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis* 1 1450 31 October 2014 – present
(1450)
Manipur N. Biren Singh* 1 584 15 March 2017 – present
(584)
Rajasthan Bhairon Singh Shekhawat[lower-greek 6] 2 2840 4 March 1990 – 15 December 1992
(1017)
4 December 1993 – 1 December 1998
(1823)
Vasundhara Raje* 2 3609 8 December 2003 – 18 December 2008
(1837)
13 December 2013 – present
(1772)
Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb*
Biplab Kumar Deb
 1 225 9 March 2018 – present
(225)
Uttarakhand Nityanand Swami 1 355 9 November 2000 – 30 October 2001
(355)
Bhagat Singh Koshyari 1 123 30 October 2001 – 2 March 2002
(123)
B. C. Khanduri 2 1027 8 March 2007 – 28 June 2009
(843)
11 September 2011 – 13 March 2012
(184)
Ramesh Pokhriyal 1 805 28 June 2009 – 11 September 2011
(805)
Trivendra Singh Rawat* 1 581 18 March 2017 – present
(581)
Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh 3 1311 24 June 1991 – 6 December 1992
(531)
21 September 1997 – 21 February 1998
(153)
23 February 1998 – 12 November 1999
(627)
Ram Prakash Gupta – 1 351 12 November 1999 – 28 October 2000
(351)
Rajnath Singh 1 496 28 October 2000 – 8 March 2002
(496)
Yogi Adityanath* 1 580 19 March 2017 – present
(580)

See also

Notes

  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] On 20 February 2014, he once again joined the BJP.[10]
  2. ↑ Khandu became the chief minister in July 2016 while being a member of the INC.[11] He joined the People's Party of Arunachal in September 2016,[11] and later defected to the BJP in December 2016.[12]
  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

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". 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "States of India since 1947". worldstatesmen.org. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  8. 1 2 "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". Times Of India. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  11. 1 2 "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.
  12. ↑ "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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