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 7 September 2022, 49 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister and Deputy Chief Minister out of which twelve and six 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. 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.[5]Deputy Chief Minister is a member of the state government and usually the second highest ranking executive officer of their state's council of ministers. While not a constitutional office, it seldom carries any specific powers.[1] A deputy chief minister usually also holds a cabinet portfolio such as home minister or finance minister. In the parliamentary system of government, the Chief Minister is treated as the "first among equals" in the cabinet; the position of deputy chief minister is used to bring political stability and strength within a coalition government.

Of the 49 BJP chief ministers, twelve are incumbent — Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Bhupendrabhai Patel in Gujarat, Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana, Basavaraj Bommai in Karnataka, Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh, N. Biren Singh in Manipur, Manik Saha in Tripura, Pushkar Singh Dhami 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. Shivraj Singh Chauhan, who is chief minister of Madhya Pradesh for more than 15 years 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 seven chief ministers in Uttarakhand from the BJP, six chief ministers in Gujarat, four chief ministers in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh each, and three in Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand each.

Arunachal Pradesh

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
Gegong Apang.jpg
Gegong Apang[α] 31 August 2003 29 August 2004 364 days 6th
Pema Khandu in July 2016.jpg
Pema Khandu*[β] 31 December 2016 28 May 2019 6 years, 49 days 9th
29 May 2019 Incumbent 10th
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Assam

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.jpg
Sarbananda Sonowal 24 May 2016 9 May 2021 4 years, 350 days 14th
Himanta Biswa Sarma with PM Narendra Modi Cropped.jpg
Himanta Biswa Sarma* 10 May 2021 Incumbent 1 year, 284 days 15th
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Chhattisgarh

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
The former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Dr. Raman Singh.jpg
Raman Singh 7 December 2003 11 December 2008 15 years, 9 days 2nd
12 December 2008 11 December 2013 3rd
12 December 2013 16 December 2018 4th
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Delhi

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
Madan Lal Khurana.jpg
Madan Lal Khurana 2 December 1993 26 February 1996 2 years, 86 days 1st
The Union Labour Minister Dr. Sahib Singh chairing the 165th Meeting of the CBT, Employees Provident Fund in New Delhi on December 3, 2003 (Wednesday) (cropped).jpg
Sahib Singh Verma 26 February 1996 12 October 1998 2 years, 228 days
Sushma Swaraj Ji.jpg
Sushma Swaraj 12 October 1998 3 December 1998 52 days
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Goa

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
The official photograph of the Union Minister for Defence, Shri Manohar Parrikar.jpg
Manohar Parrikar 24 October 2000 2 June 2002 4 years, 101 days 8th
3 June 2002 2 February 2005 9th
9 March 2012 8 November 2014 2 years, 244 days 11th
14 March 2017 17 March 2019 2 years, 3 days 12th
Laxmikant Parsekar.jpg
Laxmikant Parsekar 8 November 2014 13 March 2017 2 years, 125 days 11th
The Chief Minister of Goa, Shri Pramod Sawant.jpg
Pramod Sawant* 19 March 2019 27 March 2022 3 years, 336 days 12th
28 March 2022 Incumbent 13th
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Gujarat

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
Keshubhai Patel.jpg
Keshubhai Patel 14 March 1995 21 October 1995 221 days 9th
4 March 1998 6 October 2001 3 years, 216 days 10th
Suresh Mehta 21 October 1995 19 September 1996 334 days 9th
PM Modi Portrait(cropped).jpg
Narendra Modi 7 October 2001 21 December 2002 12 years, 227 days 10th
22 December 2002 22 December 2007 11th
23 December 2007 25 December 2012 12th
26 December 2012 22 May 2014 13th
Anandiben Patel Ji.jpg
Anandiben Patel 22 May 2014 6 August 2016 2 years, 76 days
Vijay Rupani.jpg
Vijay Rupani 7 August 2016 25 December 2017 5 years, 37 days
26 December 2017 13 September 2021 14th
Bhupendra PAtel Sanskrit.jpg
Bhupendrabhai Patel 13 September 2021 Incumbent 1 year, 158 days
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Haryana

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
Chief Minister of Haryana Shri Manohar Lal.jpg
Manohar Lal Khattar* 26 October 2014 26 October 2019 8 years, 115 days 13th
27 October 2019 Incumbent 14th
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Himachal Pradesh

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
Shanta Kumar.jpg
Shanta Kumar[γ] 5 March 1990 15 December 1992 2 years, 285 days 7th
Prem Kumar Dhumal.jpg
Prem Kumar Dhumal 24 March 1998 5 March 2003 4 years, 346 days 9th
30 December 2007 25 December 2012 4 years, 361 days 11th
JRThakur.jpg
Jai Ram Thakur 27 December 2017 11 December 2022 4 years, 349 days 13th

Jharkhand

Portrait Name Term in office
Babulal Marandi 15 November 2000 18 March 2003 2 years, 123 days 1st
Arjun Munda.jpg
Arjun Munda 18 March 2003 2 March 2005 1 year, 349 days
12 March 2005 19 September 2006 1 year, 191 days 2nd
11 September 2010 18 January 2013 2 years, 129 days 3rd
Raghuvar Das.jpg
Raghubar Das 28 December 2014 29 December 2019 5 years, 1 day 4th

Karnataka

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
The Chief Minister of Karnataka, Shri B.S. Yediyurappa meeting with the Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia to finalize annual plan 2008-09 of the State, in New Delhi on August 12, 2008 (1) (cropped).jpg
B. S. Yediyurappa 12 November 2007 19 November 2007 5 years, 81 days 12th
30 May 2008 4 August 2011 13th
17 May 2018 23 May 2018 15th
26 July 2019 28 July 2021
Sadananda Gowda.jpg
D. V. Sadananda Gowda 5 August 2011 12 July 2012 342 days 13th
Jagadish Shettar.jpg
Jagadish Shettar 12 July 2012 13 May 2013 305 days
BasavarajBommai.jpg
Basavaraj Bommai* 28 July 2021 Incumbent 1 year, 205 days 15th
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Madhya Pradesh

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Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
Sunder Lal Patwa[ε] 5 March 1990 15 December 1992 2 years, 285 days 9th
Uma Bharati in 2014.jpg
Uma Bharti 8 December 2003 22 August 2004 258 days 12th
Babulal Gaur (cropped).jpg
Babulal Gaur 23 August 2004 28 November 2005 1 year, 97 days
Shivraj Singh Chauhan (cropped).jpg
Shivraj Singh Chouhan 29 November 2005 11 December 2008 13 years, 17 days
12 December 2008 13 December 2013 13th
14 December 2013 16 December 2018 14th
23 March 2020 Incumbent 2 years, 332 days 15th


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Maharashtra

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
Devendra Fadnavis @Vidhan Sabha 04-03-2021.jpg
Devendra Fadnavis 31 October 2014 12 November 2019 5 years, 17 days 13th
23 November 2019 28 November 2019 14th
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Manipur

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
N. Biren Singh.jpg
N. Biren Singh* 15 March 2017 Incumbent 5 years, 340 days 12th
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Rajasthan

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
BS Shekhawat.jpg
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat[ζ] 4 March 1990 15 December 1992 2 years, 286 days 9th
4 December 1993 1 December 1998 4 years, 362 days 10th
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje.JPG
Vasundhara Raje 8 December 2003 12 December 2008 10 years, 8 days 12th
13 December 2013 17 December 2018 14th
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Tripura

The Left Front government was defeated after 25 years of office out in 2018 election, with the Bharatiya Janata Party winning majority of seats and Biplab Kumar Deb becoming the first Chief Minister of Tripura from the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
Biplab Kumar Deb (cropped).png
Biplab Kumar Deb 9 March 2018 14 May 2022 4 years, 66 days 12th
Manik Saha Invitation for HWC 2023.jpg
Manik Saha* 15 May 2022 Incumbent 279 days 12th
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Uttar Pradesh

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
Kalyan Singh1.jpg
Kalyan Singh 24 June 1991 6 December 1992 3 years, 217 days 11th
21 September 1997 12 November 1999 13th
Ram Prakash Gupta 12 November 1999 28 October 2000 351 days
Rajnath.jpg
Rajnath Singh 28 October 2000 8 March 2002 1 year, 131 days
The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Shri Yogi Adityanath meeting the President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on February 10, 2018 (cropped).jpg
Yogi Adityanath* 19 March 2017 24 March 2022 5 years, 336 days 17th
25 March 2022 Incumbent 18th
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Uttarakhand

Portrait Name Term in office Assembly
CM UK.jpg
Nityanand Swami 9 November 2000 29 October 2001 354 days 1st
Bhagatsinghkoshyari.jpg
Bhagat Singh Koshyari 30 October 2001 1 March 2002 122 days
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Major General (Retd.) B. C. Khanduri meeting with the Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Murli Deora, in New Delhi on December 07, 2007.jpg
B. C. Khanduri 7 March 2007 26 June 2009 2 years, 295 days 3rd
11 September 2011 13 March 2012
Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal
Ramesh Pokhriyal 27 June 2009 10 September 2011 2 years, 75 days
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Trivendra Singh Rawat.jpg
Trivendra Singh Rawat 18 March 2017 10 March 2021 3 years, 357 days 5th
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Tirath Singh Rawat.jpg
Tirath Singh Rawat 10 March 2021 4 July 2021 116 days
Pushkar Dhami.jpg
Pushkar Singh Dhami* 4 July 2021 Incumbent 1 year, 229 days
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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 until 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 until 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]
  2. ^ 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]
  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
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". The Times of India. 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. ^ a b c d e f g h "States of India since 1947". worldstatesmen.org. Archived from the original on 18 June 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  8. ^ a b "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". The Times of India. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  11. ^ "Arunachal veteran Gegong Apang joins Devegowda's JD(S)". Business Standard. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  12. ^ a b "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.
  13. ^ "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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