List of current Indian chief ministers

In the Republic of India, a chief minister is the head of government of each of twenty-nine states and two union territories(Delhi and Puducherry). According to the Constitution of India, at the state-level, the governor is de jure head, but de factoexecutive 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 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.^[1]

Of the thirty-one current incumbents, four are women—Anandiben Patel in Gujarat, Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu, Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Serving since December 1994 (for 20 years, 353 days), Sikkim's Pawan Kumar Chamling has the longest incumbency. Parkash Singh Badal (b. 1927) of Punjab is the oldest chief minister,^[2] while Uttar Pradesh's Akhilesh Yadav (b. 1973) is the youngest. Nine incumbents belong to the Indian National Congress and eight are from the Bharatiya Janata Party; 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 N.R. Congress   All India Trinamool Congress   Bharatiya Janata Party   Biju Janata Dal   Communist Party of India (Marxist)   Indian National Congress   Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party   Janata Dal (United)   Naga People's Front   Samajwadi Party   Shiromani Akali Dal   Sikkim Democratic Front   Telangana Rashtra Samithi   Telugu Desam Party

State (past chief ministers)	Name[3]	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Party[a]		Ref
Andhra Pradesh	N. Chandrababu Naidu		8 June 2014 (1 year, 175 days)	Telugu Desam Party		[4]
Arunachal Pradesh	Nabam Tuki	–	1 November 2011 (4 years, 29 days)	Indian National Congress		[5]
Assam	Tarun Gogoi		17 May 2001 (14 years, 197 days)	Indian National Congress		[6]
Bihar	Nitish Kumar		22 February 2015 (281 days)	Janata Dal (United)		[7]
Chhattisgarh	Raman Singh		7 December 2003 (11 years, 358 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[8]
Delhi	Arvind Kejriwal		14 February 2015 (289 days)	Aam Aadmi Party		[9]
Goa	Laxmikant Parsekar		8 November 2014 (1 year, 22 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[10]
Gujarat	Anandiben Patel		22 May 2014 (1 year, 192 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[11]
Haryana	Manohar Lal Khattar		26 October 2014 (1 year, 35 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[12]
Himachal Pradesh	Virbhadra Singh		25 December 2012 (2 years, 340 days)	Indian National Congress		[13]
Jammu and Kashmir	Mufti Mohammad Sayeed		1 March 2015 (274 days)	Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party		[14]
Jharkhand	Raghuvar Das		28 December 2014 (337 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[15]
Karnataka	Siddaramaiah		13 May 2013 (2 years, 201 days)	Indian National Congress		[16]
Kerala	Oommen Chandy		18 May 2011 (4 years, 196 days)	Indian National Congress		[17]
Madhya Pradesh	Shivraj Singh Chouhan		29 November 2005 (10 years, 1 day)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[18]
Maharashtra	Devendra Fadnavis		31 October 2014 (1 year, 30 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[19]
Manipur	Okram Ibobi Singh	–	2 March 2002 (13 years, 273 days)	Indian National Congress		[20]
Meghalaya	Mukul Sangma		20 April 2010 (5 years, 224 days)	Indian National Congress		[21]
Mizoram	Lal Thanhawla	–	7 December 2008 (6 years, 358 days)	Indian National Congress		[22]
Nagaland	T. R. Zeliang		24 May 2014 (1 year, 190 days)	Naga People's Front		[23]
Odisha	Naveen Patnaik		5 March 2000 (15 years, 270 days)	Biju Janata Dal		[24]
Puducherry	N. Rangaswamy		16 May 2011 (4 years, 198 days)	All India N.R. Congress		[25]
Punjab	Parkash Singh Badal		1 March 2007 (8 years, 274 days)	Shiromani Akali Dal		[26]
Rajasthan	Vasundhara Raje		13 December 2013 (1 year, 352 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		[27]
Sikkim	Pawan Kumar Chamling	–	12 December 1994 (20 years, 353 days)	Sikkim Democratic Front		[28]
Tamil Nadu	Jayalalithaa		23 May 2015 (191 days)	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam		[29]
Telangana	K. Chandrashekar Rao		2 June 2014 (1 year, 181 days)	Telangana Rashtra Samithi		[30]
Tripura	Manik Sarkar		11 March 1998 (17 years, 264 days)	Communist Party of India (Marxist)		[31]
Uttar Pradesh	Akhilesh Yadav		15 March 2012 (3 years, 260 days)	Samajwadi Party		[32]
Uttarakhand	Harish Rawat		1 February 2014 (1 year, 302 days)	Indian National Congress		[33]
West Bengal	Mamata Banerjee		20 May 2011 (4 years, 194 days)	All India Trinamool Congress

 

                                         
     

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