List of current Indian chief ministers

In the Republic of India, a chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-nine 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, 163 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] 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   YSR Congress Party   N/A (President's rule)

State (past chief ministers)	Name[3]	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Party[lower-alpha 1]		Ref
Andhra Pradesh (list)	Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy		30 May 2019 (1 year, 77 days)	YSR Congress Party		[4]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	Pema Khandu		17 July 2016 (4 years, 29 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[5][6]
Assam (list)	Sarbananda Sonowal		24 May 2016 (4 years, 83 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[7]
Bihar (list)	Nitish Kumar		22 February 2015 (5 years, 175 days)	Janata Dal (United)		[8]
Chhattisgarh (list)	Bhupesh Baghel		17 December 2018 (1 year, 242 days)	Indian National Congress		[9]
Delhi[lower-alpha 2] (list)	Arvind Kejriwal		14 February 2015 (5 years, 183 days)	Aam Aadmi Party		[10]
Goa (list)	Pramod Sawant		19 March 2019 (1 year, 149 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[11]
Gujarat (list)	Vijay Rupani		7 August 2016 (4 years, 8 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[12]
Haryana (list)	Manohar Lal Khattar		26 October 2014 (5 years, 294 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[13]
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Jai Ram Thakur		27 December 2017 (2 years, 232 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[14]
Jammu and Kashmir[lower-alpha 2] (list)	Vacant (President's rule)		31 October 2019 (289 days)	N/A		[15]
Jharkhand (list)	Hemant Soren		29 December 2019 (230 days)	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha		[16]
Karnataka (list)	B. S. Yediyurappa		26 July 2019 (1 year, 20 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[17]
Kerala (list)	Pinarayi Vijayan		25 May 2016 (4 years, 82 days)	Communist Party of India (Marxist)		[18]
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Shivraj Singh Chouhan		23 March 2020 (145 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[19]
Maharashtra (list)	Uddhav Thackeray		28 November 2019 (261 days)	Shiv Sena		[20]
Manipur (list)	N. Biren Singh		15 March 2017 (3 years, 153 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[21]
Meghalaya (list)	Conrad Sangma		6 March 2018 (2 years, 162 days)	National People's Party		[22]
Mizoram (list)	Zoramthanga		15 December 2018 (1 year, 244 days)	Mizo National Front		[23]
Nagaland (list)	Neiphiu Rio		8 March 2018 (2 years, 160 days)	Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party		[24]
Odisha (list)	Naveen Patnaik		5 March 2000 (20 years, 163 days)	Biju Janata Dal		[25]
Puducherry[lower-alpha 2] (list)	V. Narayanasamy		6 June 2016 (4 years, 70 days)	Indian National Congress		[26]
Punjab (list)	Amarinder Singh		16 March 2017 (3 years, 152 days)	Indian National Congress		[27]
Rajasthan (list)	Ashok Gehlot		17 December 2018 (1 year, 242 days)	Indian National Congress		[28]
Sikkim (list)	Prem Singh Tamang		27 May 2019 (1 year, 80 days)	Sikkim Krantikari Morcha		[29]
Tamil Nadu (list)	Edappadi K. Palaniswami		16 February 2017 (3 years, 181 days)	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam		[30]
Telangana (list)	K. Chandrashekhar Rao		2 June 2014 (6 years, 74 days)	Telangana Rashtra Samithi		[31]
Tripura (list)	Biplab Kumar Deb		9 March 2018 (2 years, 159 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[32]
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Yogi Adityanath		19 March 2017 (3 years, 149 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[33]
Uttarakhand (list)	Trivendra Singh Rawat		18 March 2017 (3 years, 150 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[34]
West Bengal (list)	Mamata Banerjee		20 May 2011 (9 years, 87 days)	All India Trinamool Congress		[35]

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

• List of current Indian deputy chief ministers
• List of current Indian governors
• List of current Indian chief justices
• List of current Indian legislative speakers and chairmen
• List of current Indian opposition leaders
• List of prime ministers of India

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