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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 19 December 2023^[update], 52 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister and Deputy Chief Minister out of which twelve and Eleven 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 52 BJP chief ministers, twelve 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, 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.

Arunachal Pradesh[edit]

Name	Term in office			Assembly
Gegong Apang^[α]	31 August 2003	29 August 2004	364 days	6th
Pema Khandu*^[β]	31 December 2016	28 May 2019	7 years, 76 days	9th
Pema Khandu*^[β]	29 May 2019	Incumbent	7 years, 76 days	10th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Assam[edit]

Portrait	Name	Term in office			Assembly
	Sarbananda Sonowal	24 May 2016	9 May 2021	4 years, 350 days	14th
	Himanta Biswa Sarma*	10 May 2021	Incumbent	2 years, 311 days	15th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Chhattisgarh[edit]

Name	Term in office			Assembly
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
Vishnu Deo Sai*	13 December 2023	Incumbent	94 days	6th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Delhi[edit]

Name	Term in office			Assembly
Madan Lal Khurana	2 December 1993	26 February 1996	2 years, 86 days	1st
Sahib Singh Verma	26 February 1996	12 October 1998	2 years, 228 days
Sushma Swaraj	12 October 1998	3 December 1998	52 days

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Goa[edit]

Name	Term in office			Assembly
Manohar Parrikar	24 October 2000	2 June 2002	4 years, 101 days	8th
	3 June 2002	2 February 2005	4 years, 101 days	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	8 November 2014	13 March 2017	2 years, 125 days	11th
Pramod Sawant*	19 March 2019	27 March 2022	4 years, 363 days	12th
Pramod Sawant*	28 March 2022	Incumbent	4 years, 363 days	13th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Gujarat[edit]

Name	Term in office			Assembly
Keshubhai Patel	14 March 1995	21 October 1995	221 days	9th
Keshubhai Patel	4 March 1998	6 October 2001	3 years, 216 days	10th
Suresh Mehta	21 October 1995	19 September 1996	334 days	9th
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	22 May 2014	6 August 2016	2 years, 76 days
Vijay Rupani	7 August 2016	25 December 2017	5 years, 37 days
Vijay Rupani	26 December 2017	13 September 2021	5 years, 37 days	14th
Bhupendrabhai Patel	13 September 2021	11 December 2022	2 years, 185 days	14th
Bhupendrabhai Patel	12 December 2022	Incumbent	2 years, 185 days	15th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Haryana[edit]

Name	Term in office			Assembly
Manohar Lal Khattar	26 October 2014	26 October 2019	9 years, 138 days	13th
Manohar Lal Khattar	27 October 2019	12 March 2024	9 years, 138 days	14th
Nayab Singh Saini*	12 March 2024	Incumbent	4 days	14th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Himachal Pradesh[edit]

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

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Jharkhand[edit]

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

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Karnataka[edit]

Name	Term in office			Assembly
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		15th
Sadananda Gowda	5 August 2011	12 July 2012	342 days	13th
Jagadish Shettar	12 July 2012	13 May 2013	305 days	13th
Basavaraj Bommai	28 July 2021	17 May 2023	1 year, 293 days	15th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Madhya Pradesh[edit]

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Name	Term in office			Assembly
Sunder Lal Patwa^[ε]	5 March 1990	15 December 1992	2 years, 285 days	9th
Uma Bharti	8 December 2003	22 August 2004	258 days	12th
Babulal Gaur	23 August 2004	28 November 2005	1 year, 97 days
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	13 December 2023	3 years, 265 days	15th
Mohan Yadav*	13 December 2023	Incumbent	94 days	16th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Maharashtra[edit]

Portrait	Name	Term in office			Assembly
	Devendra Fadnavis	31 October 2014	12 November 2019	5 years, 17 days	13th
	Devendra Fadnavis	23 November 2019	28 November 2019	5 years, 17 days	14th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Manipur[edit]

Portrait	Name	Term in office			Assembly
	N. Biren Singh*	15 March 2017	20 March 2022	7 years, 1 day	12th
	N. Biren Singh*	21 March 2022	Incumbent	7 years, 1 day	13th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Rajasthan[edit]

Name	Term in office			Assembly
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat^[ζ]	4 March 1990	15 December 1992	2 years, 286 days	9th
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat^[ζ]	4 December 1993	1 December 1998	4 years, 362 days	10th
Vasundhara Raje	8 December 2003	12 December 2008	10 years, 8 days	12th
Vasundhara Raje	13 December 2013	17 December 2018	10 years, 8 days	14th
Bhajan Lal Sharma*	15 December 2023	Incumbent	92 days	16th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Tripura[edit]

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.

Name	Term in office			Assembly
Biplab Kumar Deb	9 March 2018	14 May 2022	4 years, 66 days	12th
Manik Saha*	15 May 2022	7 March 2023	1 year, 306 days	12th
Manik Saha*	8 March 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 306 days	13th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Uttar Pradesh[edit]

Name	Term in office			Assembly
Kalyan Singh	24 June 1991	6 December 1992	3 years, 217 days	11th
Kalyan Singh	21 September 1997	12 November 1999	3 years, 217 days	13th
Ram Prakash Gupta	12 November 1999	28 October 2000	351 days
Rajnath Singh	28 October 2000	8 March 2002	1 year, 131 days
Yogi Adityanath*	19 March 2017	24 March 2022	6 years, 363 days	17th
Yogi Adityanath*	25 March 2022	Incumbent	6 years, 363 days	18th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Uttarakhand[edit]

Name	Term in office			Assembly
Nityanand Swami	9 November 2000	29 October 2001	354 days	1st
Bhagat Singh Koshyari	30 October 2001	1 March 2002	122 days	1st
B. C. Khanduri	7 March 2007	26 June 2009	2 years, 295 days	3rd
B. C. Khanduri	11 September 2011	13 March 2012	2 years, 295 days
Ramesh Pokhriyal	27 June 2009	10 September 2011	2 years, 75 days
Trivendra Singh Rawat	18 March 2017	10 March 2021	3 years, 357 days	5th
Tirath Singh Rawat	10 March 2021	4 July 2021	116 days
Pushkar Singh Dhami*	4 July 2021	22 March 2022	2 years, 256 days
Pushkar Singh Dhami*	23 March 2022	Incumbent	2 years, 256 days	6th

Key

* – Incumbent Chief Minister

Notes[edit]

^ 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]
^ Shekhawat became the chief minister for the first time (1977–1980) while being a member of the JP.

References[edit]

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". The Times of India. 19 May 2016. 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.
^ ^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.
^ ^a ^b "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". The 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.
^ ^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.
^ "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[edit]

Official website of the BJP
Media related to chief ministers from the BJP at Wikimedia Commons

[12] 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]

[15] 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]

[16] Shanta Kumar became the chief minister for the first time (1977–1980) while being a member of the JP.^[7]

[17] 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]

[18] Patwa became the chief minister for the first time (January 1980 – February 1980) while being a member of the JP.^[7]

[19] Shekhawat became the chief minister for the first time (1977–1980) while being a member of the JP.

[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. 19 May 2016. 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.

[wsm-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.

[et1-8] "Apang back in Cong fold". The Economic Times. 29 August 2004. Retrieved 2 August 2013.

[et2-9] "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.

[khandu1-13] "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.

[14] "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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Bharatiya Janata Party
Party presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) L. K. Advani (1986–91, 1993–98, 2004–06) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–2020) J. P. Nadda (2020–present)
Current vice presidents	Raman Singh Vasundhara Raje Radha Mohan Singh Baijayant Panda Raghubar Das Rekha Verma Annpurna Devi Bharti Shiyal D. K. Aruna M. Chuba Ao A. P. Abdullakutty
Prime ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1996; 1998–2004) Narendra Modi (2014–present)
Deputy prime ministers	L. K. Advani (2002–2004)
Other prominent leaders	Subramanian Swamy Arun Jaitley Bhavurao Deshpande Nirmala Sitharaman Piyush Goyal Kalyan Singh Anandiben Patel Smriti Irani Ravi Shankar Prasad Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sushil Kumar Modi Ram Naik Suvendu Adhikari Sarbananda Sonowal Chandrakant Bacchu Patil Dilip Ghosh Jamyang Tsering Namgyal Madan Lal Khurana Sahib Singh Verma Sushma Swaraj Manohar Parrikar Keshubhai Patel Shanta Kumar Prem Kumar Dhumal Babulal Marandi Arjun Munda D. V. Sadananda Gowda Jagadish Shettar Sunder Lal Patwa Uma Bharti Babulal Gaur Devendra Fadnavis Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Ram Prakash Gupta Jagdambika Pal Nityanand Swami Bhagat Singh Koshyari B. C. Khanduri Ramesh Pokhriyal Trivendra Singh Rawat Gulab Chand Kataria Hriday Narayan Dikshit Biswabhusan Harichandan Bandaru Dattatreya Draupadi Murmu Vajubhai Vala Kalraj Mishra Banwarilal Purohit Tamilisai Soundararajan Manoj Sinha Suresh Prabhu B. S. Yediyurappa Yogi Adityanath Himanta Biswa Sarma
Current chief ministers	Pema Khandu Himanta Biswa Sarma Vishnu Deo Sai Pramod Sawant Bhupendrabhai Patel Nayab Singh Saini Mohan Yadav Bhajan Lal Sharma N. Biren Singh Yogi Adityanath Manik Saha Pushkar Singh Dhami
Current deputy chief ministers	Chowna Mein Devendra Fadnavis Yanthungo Patton Brajesh Pathak Keshav Prasad Maurya Samrat Chaudhary Vijay Kumar Sinha Arun Sao Vijay Sharma Rajendra Shukla Jagdish Devda Diya Kumari Prem Chand Bairwa
Current national spokespersons	Anil Baluni Sanjay Mayukh Sambit Patra Sudhanshu Trivedi Syed Shahnawaz Hussain Rajiv Pratap Rudy Nalin Kohli Rajeev Chandrasekhar Gaurav Bhatia Syed Zafar Islam Tom Vadakkan Sanju Verma Gopal Krishna Agarwal Iqbal Singh Lalpura R. P. Singh Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Aparajita Sarangi Heena Gavit Guruprakash Mmhonlumo Kikon Raju Bista K. K. Sharma
Current general secretaries	Arun Singh Bhupender Yadav B. L. Santhosh (Organisation) Dushyant Kumar Gautam Dilip Saikia Kailash Vijayvargiya Shiv Prakash (Organisation) Tarun Chugh
Current national secretaries	Vinod Tawde Vinod Sonkar Bishweswar Tudu Satya Kumar Sunil Deodhar Arvind Menon Harish Dwivedi Pankaja Munde Om Prakash Dhurve Anupam Hazra Narendra Singh Vijaya Rahatkar Alka Gurjar
Political wings	National Executive Committee Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP IT Cell State Units State Presidents
Related organisations	Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Swadeshi Jagaran Manch Vishva Hindu Parishad
Others	Hindutva Hindu nationalism Integral humanism Electoral history Party leaders in the Parliament Rajya Sabha members