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[update], 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 13 June 2024[update], 54 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister out of which thirteen are incumbent.
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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.[5]
Of the 54 BJP chief ministers, thirteen are incumbent – Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam, Vishnu Deo Sai in Chhattisgarh, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Bhupendrabhai Patel in Gujarat, Nayab Singh Saini in Haryana, Mohan Yadav in Madhya Pradesh, N. Biren Singh in Manipur, Mohan Charan Majhi in Odisha, Bhajan Lal Sharma in Rajasthan, 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, five chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh, four chief ministers in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh each, and three in Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand each.
# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Gegong Apang[lower-greek 1] | Tuting–Yingkiong | 31 August 2003 | 29 August 2004 | 364 days | 6th |
2 | ![]() |
Pema Khandu*[lower-greek 2] | Mukto | 31 December 2016 | 28 May 2019 | 7 years, 240 days | 9th |
29 May 2019 | 12 June 2024 | 10th | |||||
13 June 2024 | Incumbent | 11th | |||||
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Sarbananda Sonowal | Majuli | 24 May 2016 | 10 May 2021 | 4 years, 351 days | 14th |
2 | ![]() |
Himanta Biswa Sarma* | Jalukbari | 10 May 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 109 days | 15th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Raman Singh | Dongargaon | 7 December 2003 | 11 December 2008 | 15 years, 10 days | 2nd |
Rajnandgaon | 12 December 2008 | 11 December 2013 | 3rd | ||||
12 December 2013 | 17 December 2018 | 4th | |||||
2 | ![]() |
Vishnu Deo Sai* | Kunkuri | 13 December 2023 | Incumbent | 258 days | 6th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Madan Lal Khurana | Moti Nagar | 2 December 1993 | 26 February 1996 | 2 years, 86 days | 1st |
2 | ![]() |
Sahib Singh Verma | Shalimar Bagh | 26 February 1996 | 12 October 1998 | 2 years, 228 days | |
3 | ![]() |
Sushma Swaraj | Not Contested | 12 October 1998 | 3 December 1998 | 52 days |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Manohar Parrikar | Panaji | 24 October 2000 | 2 June 2002 | 8 years, 349 days | 8th |
3 June 2002 | 3 February 2005 | 9th | |||||
9 March 2012 | 8 November 2014 | 11th | |||||
14 March 2017 | 17 March 2019 | 12th | |||||
2 | ![]() |
Laxmikant Parsekar | Mandrem | 8 November 2014 | 14 March 2017 | 2 years, 126 days | 11th |
3 | ![]() |
Pramod Sawant* | Sanquelim | 19 March 2019 | 27 March 2022 | 5 years, 161 days | 12th |
28 March 2022 | Incumbent | 13th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Keshubhai Patel | Visavadar | 14 March 1995 | 21 October 1995 | 4 years, 73 days | 9th |
4 March 1998 | 7 October 2001 | 10th | |||||
2 | Suresh Mehta | Mandvi | 21 October 1995 | 19 September 1996 | 334 days | 9th | |
3 | ![]() |
Narendra Modi | Rajkot West | 7 October 2001 | 21 December 2002 | 12 years, 227 days | 10th |
Maninagar | 22 December 2002 | 22 December 2007 | 11th | ||||
23 December 2007 | 25 December 2012 | 12th | |||||
26 December 2012 | 22 May 2014 | 13th | |||||
4 | ![]() |
Anandiben Patel | Ghatlodia | 22 May 2014 | 7 August 2016 | 2 years, 77 days | |
5 | ![]() |
Vijay Rupani | Rajkot West | 7 August 2016 | 25 December 2017 | 5 years, 37 days | |
26 December 2017 | 13 September 2021 | 14th | |||||
6 | ![]() |
Bhupendrabhai Patel | Ghatlodia | 13 September 2021 | 11 December 2022 | 2 years, 349 days | |
12 December 2022 | Incumbent | 15th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Manohar Lal Khattar | Karnal | 26 October 2014 | 26 October 2019 | 9 years, 138 days | 13th |
27 October 2019 | 12 March 2024 | 14th | |||||
2 | ![]() |
Karnal | 12 March 2024 | Incumbent | 168 days | ||
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Shanta Kumar[lower-greek 3] | Palampur | 5 March 1990 | 15 December 1992 | 2 years, 285 days | 7th |
2 | ![]() |
Prem Kumar Dhumal | Bamsan | 24 March 1998 | 6 March 2003 | 9 years, 343 days | 9th |
30 December 2007 | 25 December 2012 | 11th | |||||
3 | ![]() |
Jai Ram Thakur | Seraj | 27 December 2017 | 11 December 2022 | 4 years, 349 days | 13th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Babulal Marandi | Ramgarh | 15 November 2000 | 18 March 2003 | 2 years, 123 days | 1st |
2 | Arjun Munda | Kharsawan | 18 March 2003 | 2 March 2005 | 5 years, 304 days | ||
12 March 2005 | 19 September 2006 | 2nd | |||||
11 September 2010 | 18 January 2013 | 3rd | |||||
3 | ![]() |
Raghubar Das | Jamshedpur East | 28 December 2014 | 29 December 2019 | 5 years, 1 day | 4th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
B. S. Yediyurappa | Shikaripura | 12 November 2007 | 19 November 2007 | 5 years, 81 days | 12th |
30 May 2008 | 5 August 2011 | 13th | |||||
17 May 2018 | 23 May 2018 | 15th | |||||
26 July 2019 | 28 July 2021 | ||||||
2 | ![]() |
Sadananda Gowda | MLC | 5 August 2011 | 12 July 2012 | 342 days | 13th |
3 | ![]() |
Jagadish Shettar | Hubli-Dharwad Central | 12 July 2012 | 13 May 2013 | 305 days | |
4 | ![]() |
Basavaraj Bommai | Shiggaon | 28 July 2021 | 20 May 2023 | 1 year, 296 days | 15th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | Sunder Lal Patwa[lower-greek 5] | Bhojpur | 5 March 1990 | 15 December 1992 | 2 years, 285 days | 9th | |
2 | ![]() |
Uma Bharti | Malhara | 8 December 2003 | 23 August 2004 | 259 days | 12th |
3 | ![]() |
Babulal Gaur | Govindpura | 23 August 2004 | 28 November 2005 | 1 year, 98 days | |
4 | ![]() |
Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Budhni | 29 November 2005 | 11 December 2008 | 16 years, 282 days | |
12 December 2008 | 13 December 2013 | 13th | |||||
14 December 2013 | 17 December 2018 | 14th | |||||
23 March 2020 | 13 December 2023 | 15th | |||||
5 | ![]() |
Mohan Yadav* | Ujjain South | 13 December 2023 | Incumbent | 258 days | 16th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Devendra Fadnavis | Nagpur South West | 31 October 2014 | 12 November 2019 | 5 years, 17 days | 13th |
23 November 2019 | 28 November 2019 | 14th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
N. Biren Singh* | Heignang | 15 March 2017 | 20 March 2022 | 7 years, 165 days | 12th |
21 March 2022 | Incumbent | 13th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Mohan Charan Majhi* | Keonjhar | 12 June 2024 | Incumbent | 76 days | 17th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat[lower-greek 6] | Chhabra | 4 March 1990 | 15 December 1992 | 7 years, 283 days | 9th |
Bali | 4 December 1993 | 1 December 1998 | 10th | ||||
2 | Vasundhara Raje | Jhalrapatan | 8 December 2003 | 12 December 2008 | 10 years, 8 days | 12th | |
13 December 2013 | 17 December 2018 | 14th | |||||
3 | ![]() |
Bhajan Lal Sharma* | Sanganer | 15 December 2023 | Incumbent | 256 days | 16th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Biplab Kumar Deb | Banamalipur | 9 March 2018 | 15 May 2022 | 4 years, 67 days | 12th |
2 | ![]() |
Manik Saha* | Town Bordowali | 15 May 2022 | 7 March 2023 | 2 years, 104 days | |
8 March 2023 | Incumbent | 13th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Kalyan Singh | Atrauli | 24 June 1991 | 6 December 1992 | 3 years, 217 days | 11th |
21 September 1997 | 12 November 1999 | 13th | |||||
2 | Ram Prakash Gupta | MLC | 12 November 1999 | 28 October 2000 | 351 days | ||
3 | ![]() |
Rajnath Singh | Haidergarh | 28 October 2000 | 8 March 2002 | 1 year, 131 days | |
4 | ![]() |
Yogi Adityanath* | MLC | 19 March 2017 | 24 March 2022 | 7 years, 161 days | 17th |
Gorakhpur Urban | 25 March 2022 | Incumbent | 18th |
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# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term in office | Assembly | ||
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1 | ![]() |
Nityanand Swami | MLC | 9 November 2000 | 30 October 2001 | 355 days | 1st |
2 | ![]() |
Bhagat Singh Koshyari | MLC | 30 October 2001 | 1 March 2002 | 123 days | |
3 | ![]() |
B. C. Khanduri | Dhumakot | 7 March 2007 | 27 June 2009 | 2 years, 296 days | 3rd |
11 September 2011 | 13 March 2012 | ||||||
4 | ![]() |
Ramesh Pokhriyal | Thalisain | 27 June 2009 | 11 September 2011 | 2 years, 76 days | |
5 | ![]() |
Trivendra Singh Rawat | Doiwala | 18 March 2017 | 10 March 2021 | 3 years, 357 days | 5th |
6 | ![]() |
Tirath Singh Rawat | Not Contested | 10 March 2021 | 4 July 2021 | 116 days | |
7 | ![]() |
Pushkar Singh Dhami* | Khatima | 4 July 2021 | 22 March 2022 | 3 years, 54 days | |
Champawat | 23 March 2022 | Incumbent | 6th |
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- 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]
- 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]
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