List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party
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 March 2020, 43 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 43 BJP chief ministers, twelve are incumbent — Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Vijay Rupani in Gujarat, Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana, Jai Ram Thakur in Himachal Pradesh, B. S. Yediyurappa in Karnataka, Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh, N. Biren Singh in Manipur, Biplab Kumar Deb in Tripura, Trivendra Singh Rawat 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 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, Goa, 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 | 1202 | 31 December 2016 – present (1202) | |
| Assam | Sarbananda Sonowal* |  |
1 | 1423 | 24 May 2016 – present (1423) |
| Chhattisgarh | Raman Singh |  |
3 | 5488 | 7 December 2003 – 16 December 2018 (5488) |
| Delhi | Madan Lal Khurana |  |
1 | 816 | 2 December 1993 – 26 February 1996 (816) |
| Sahib Singh Verma | _(cropped).jpg) |
1 | 959 | 26 February 1996 – 12 October 1998 (959) | |
| Sushma Swaraj | _(cropped).jpg) |
1 | 52 | 12 October 1998 – 3 December 1998 (52) | |
| Goa | Manohar Parrikar |  |
3 | 3677 | 24 October 2000 – 2 February 2005 (1562) 9 March 2012 – 8 November 2014 (974) 14 March 2017 – 17 March 2019 (733) |
| Laxmikant Parsekar |  |
1 | 857 | 8 November 2014 – 14 March 2017 (857) | |
| Pramod Sawant* |  |
1 | 394 | 19 March 2019 – present (394) | |
| Gujarat | Keshubhai Patel |  |
2 | 1473 | 14 March 1995 – 21 October 1995 (221) 4 March 1998 – 7 October 2001 (1313) |
| Suresh Mehta | – | 1 | 334 | 21 October 1995 – 19 September 1996 (334) | |
| 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 | 1348 | 7 August 2016 – present (1348) | |
| Haryana | Manohar Lal Khattar* |  |
2 | 1999 | 26 October 2014 - present (1999) |
| Himachal Pradesh | Shanta Kumar[lower-greek 3] |  |
1 | 1016 | 5 March 1990 – 15 December 1992 (1016) |
| Prem Kumar Dhumal |  |
2 | 3783 | 24 March 1998 – 5 March 2003 (1807) 30 December 2007 – 25 December 2012 (1822) | |
| Jai Ram Thakur* | .jpg) |
1 | 841 | 27 December 2017 – present (841) | |
| 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 | 1827 | 28 December 2014 – 29 December 2019 (1827) | |
| Karnataka | B. S. Yediyurappa* |  |
4 | 1441 | 11 November 2007 – 20 November 2007 (9) 30 May 2008 – 4 August 2011 (1161) 17 May 2018 – 23 May 2018 (6) 26 July 2019 – present |
| 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* | .jpg) |
4 | 4765 | 29 November 2005 – 16 December 2018 (4765) 23 March 2020 – present (24) | |
| Maharashtra | Devendra Fadnavis |  |
2 | 1837 | 31 October 2014 – 8 November 2019 (1834) 23 November 2019 – 26 November 2019 (3) |
| Manipur | N. Biren Singh* |  |
1 | 1128 | 15 March 2017 – present (1128) |
| Rajasthan | Bhairon Singh Shekhawat[lower-greek 6] | .jpg) |
2 | 2840 | 4 March 1990 – 15 December 1992 (1017) 4 December 1993 – 1 December 1998 (1823) |
| Vasundhara Raje |  |
2 | 3666 | 8 December 2003 – 18 December 2008 (1837) 13 December 2013 – 16 December 2018 (1829) | |
| Tripura | Biplab Kumar Deb* |  Biplab Kumar Deb, Chief Minister of Tripura |
1 | 769 | 9 March 2018 – present (769) |
| 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 | 1125 | 18 March 2017 – present (1125) | |
| Uttar Pradesh | Kalyan Singh |  |
3 | 1311 | 24 June 1991 – 6 December 1992 (531) 21 September 1997 - 12 November 1999 (782) |
| 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 | 1124 | 19 March 2017 – present (1124) |
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 Indian chief ministers
- List of chief ministers from the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- List of chief ministers from the Indian National Congress
Notes
- 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]
- 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]
- Shanta Kumar became the chief minister for the first time (1977–1980) while being a member of the JP.[7]
- 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]
- Patwa became the chief minister for the first time (January 1980 – February 1980) while being a member of the JP.[7]
- 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
- 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.
- "In Numbers: The Rise of BJP and decline of Congress". Archived from the original on 5 November 2017.
- "Sixteenth Lok Sabha". Lok Sabha. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- "States of India since 1947". worldstatesmen.org. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
- "Apang back in Cong fold". The Economic Times. 29 August 2004. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
- "BJP bags its first NE state". The Economic Times. 31 August 2003. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
- "Congress stalwart Gegong Apang joins BJP". Times Of India. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- "Arunachal veteran Gegong Apang joins Devegowda's JD(S)". Business Standard. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- "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.
- "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.
External links
- Official website of the BJP
