List of current Indian chief ministers

File:Ruling Alliances in India.jpg In the Republic of India, a chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight 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. In thirty incumbents, Except Tamil Nadu's M. K. Stalin, other Chief Ministers also acted as the leader of the house in State Assemblies. 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]

As of August 2023^[update], the office of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir is vacant with no new elections having being held ever since the autonomy of the former state was revoked. Of the thirty incumbents, one is a woman—Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal. Serving since 5 March 2000 (for 23 years, 170 days), Odisha's Naveen Patnaik has the longest incumbency. Mizoram's Zoramthanga (aged 79) is the oldest Chief Minister, while Arunachal Pradesh's Pema Khandu (aged 44) is the youngest Chief Minister.^[2] Nitish Kumar of Bihar has served for the most terms (8).^[3] Ten incumbents belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party, four to the Indian National Congress and two to the Aam Aadmi 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 N.R. Congress   All India Trinamool Congress   Bharat Rashtra Samithi   Bharatiya Janata Party   Biju Janata Dal   Communist Party of India (Marxist)   Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam   Indian National Congress   Janata Dal (United)   Jharkhand Mukti Morcha   Mizo National Front   Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party   National People's Party   Sikkim Krantikari Morcha   Shiv Sena   Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party   N/A (President's rule)

State (past chief ministers)	Name^[4]	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Party^[a]		Alliance		Ministry	Ref
Andhra Pradesh (list)	Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy		30 May 2019 (4 years, 84 days)	Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party		None		Reddy	^[5]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	Pema Khandu		17 July 2016 (7 years, 36 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA		Khandu IV	^[6]^[7]
Assam (list)	Himanta Biswa Sarma		10 May 2021 (2 years, 104 days)					Sarma	^[8]^[9]
Bihar (list)	Nitish Kumar		22 February 2015 (8 years, 181 days)	Janata Dal (United)		INDIA		Nitish Kumar VIII	^[10]
Chhattisgarh (list)	Bhupesh Baghel		17 December 2018 (4 years, 248 days)	Indian National Congress				Baghel	^[11]
Delhi^[b] (list)	Arvind Kejriwal		14 February 2015 (8 years, 189 days)	Aam Aadmi Party				Kejriwal III	^[12]
Goa (list)	Pramod Sawant		19 March 2019 (4 years, 156 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA		Sawant II	^[13]
Gujarat (list)	Bhupendrabhai Patel		13 September 2021 (1 year, 343 days)					Patel II	13
Haryana (list)	Manohar Lal Khattar		26 October 2014 (8 years, 300 days)					Khattar II	^[14]
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu		11 December 2022 (254 days)	Indian National Congress		INDIA		Sukhu	^[15]
Jammu and Kashmir (list)	Vacant (President rule)		19 June 2018 (5 years, 64 days)	N/A		N/A		N/A	^[16]
Jharkhand (list)	Hemant Soren		29 December 2019 (3 years, 236 days)	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha		INDIA		Soren II	^[17]
Karnataka (list)	Siddaramaiah		20 May 2023 (94 days)	Indian National Congress				Siddaramaiah II
Kerala (list)	Pinarayi Vijayan		25 May 2016 (7 years, 89 days)	Communist Party of India (Marxist)		INDIA		Vijayan II	^[18]
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Shivraj Singh Chouhan		23 March 2020 (3 years, 152 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA		Chouhan IV	^[19]
Maharashtra (list)	Eknath Shinde		30 June 2022 (1 year, 53 days)	Shiv Sena				Shinde	^[20]
Manipur (list)	N. Biren Singh		15 March 2017 (6 years, 160 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party				Singh II	^[21]
Meghalaya (list)	Conrad Sangma		6 March 2018 (5 years, 169 days)	National People's Party				Sangma II	^[22]
Mizoram (list)	Zoramthanga		15 December 2018 (4 years, 250 days)	Mizo National Front				Zoramthanga III	^[23]
Nagaland (list)	Neiphiu Rio		8 March 2018 (5 years, 167 days)	Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party				Rio V	^[24]
Odisha (list)	Naveen Patnaik		5 March 2000 (23 years, 170 days)	Biju Janata Dal		None		Patnaik V	^[25]
Puducherry^[b] (list)	N. Rangaswamy		7 May 2021 (2 years, 107 days)	All India N.R. Congress		NDA		Rangaswamy IV	^[26]
Punjab (list)	Bhagwant Mann		16 March 2022 (1 year, 159 days)	Aam Aadmi Party		INDIA		Mann
Rajasthan (list)	Ashok Gehlot		17 December 2018 (4 years, 248 days)	Indian National Congress				Gehlot III	^[27]
Sikkim (list)	Prem Singh Tamang		27 May 2019 (4 years, 87 days)	Sikkim Krantikari Morcha		NDA		Tamang	^[28]
Tamil Nadu (list)	M. K. Stalin		7 May 2021 (2 years, 107 days)	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam		INDIA		Stalin	^[29]
Telangana (list)	K. Chandrashekar Rao		2 June 2014 (9 years, 81 days)	Bharat Rashtra Samithi		None		Rao II	^[30]
Tripura (list)	Manik Saha		15 May 2022 (1 year, 99 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA		Saha II	^[31]
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Yogi Adityanath		19 March 2017 (6 years, 156 days)					Yogi Adityanath II	^[32]
Uttarakhand (list)	Pushkar Singh Dhami		4 July 2021 (2 years, 49 days)					Dhami II	^[33]
West Bengal (list)	Mamata Banerjee		20 May 2011 (12 years, 94 days)	All India Trinamool Congress		INDIA		Banerjee III	^[34]

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 chairpersons
• List of current Indian opposition leaders
• List of prime ministers of India

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.

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