List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party

  States with a chief minister from the BJP

  States which had a chief minister from the BJP

  States which have never had a chief minister from the BJP

  Central-administrated Union territories

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the two major parties in the political system of Republic of India, the other being the Indian National Congress (INC). As of 2015, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament, and is the world's largest political party in terms of primary membership. Established in 1980, the BJP's platform is generally considered as the right-wing of the political spectrum. As of May 2016, 35 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister, out of which nine are incumbent. A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-nine 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. Given he/she 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.

Of the 35 BJP chief ministers, nine are incumbent — Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam, Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh, Laxmikant Parsekar in Goa, Anandiben Patel in Gujarat, Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana, Raghubar Das in Jharkhand, Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh, Devendra Fadnavis in Maharashtra, and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Four of BJP chief ministers are/have been women — Sushma Swaraj in Delhi, Uma Bharti in Madhya Pradesh, Anandiben Patel in Gujarat and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Holding the post since October 2001 (for ) until he became the Prime Minister of India in 2014, Gujarat's Narendra Modi was the longest-serving chief minister from the BJP. Karnataka's B. S. Yeddyurappa's first tenure as the chief minister lasted for only nine days, which is the least tenure among chief ministers from BJP; however, taking the total of all the tenures into consideration, Swaraj served as a chief minister 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. There have been four chief ministers from the BJP in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand each, whereas three BJP leaders have been the chief minister in Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh each.

Chief Ministers from Bharatiya Janata Party

Key

• *  – Incumbent chief minister

State	Name	Portrait	Term(s)	Total tenure length (days)	Tenure(s) description
Arunachal Pradesh	Gegong Apang	–	1		31 August 2003 – 29 August 2004 ()
Assam	Sarbananda Sonowal*		1		24 May 2016 – present ()
Chhattisgarh	Raman Singh*		3		7 December 2003 – present ()
Delhi	Madan Lal Khurana		1		2 December 1993 – 26 February 1996 ()
	Sahib Singh Verma	–	1		26 February 1996 – 12 October 1998 ()
	Sushma Swaraj		1		12 October 1998 – 3 December 1998 ()
Goa	Manohar Parrikar		2		12 October 2000 – 2 February 2005 () 9 March 2012 – 8 November 2014 ()
	Laxmikant Parsekar*		1		8 November 2014 - present ()
Gujarat	Keshubhai Patel		2		19 May 1995 – 21 October 1995 () 4 May 1998 – 7 October 2001 ()
	Suresh Mehta	–	1		21 October 1995 – 19 July 1996 ()
	Narendra Modi		4		7 October 2001 – 21 May 2014 ()
	Anandiben Patel*		1		22 May 2014 – present ()
Haryana	Manohar Lal Khattar*	100px	1		26 October 2014 – present ()
Himachal Pradesh	Shanta Kumar	–	1		5 March 1990 – 3 December 1993 ()
	Prem Kumar Dhumal	–	2		24 May 1998 – 6 March 2003 () 30 May 2007 – 25 December 2012 ()
Jharkhand	Babulal Marandi		1		15 November 2000 – 18 March 2003 ()
	Arjun Munda		3		18 March 2003 – 2 March 2005 () 12 March 2005 – 18 September 2006 () 11 September 2010 – 13 June 2013 ()
	Raghubar Das*		1		28 December 2014 – present ()
Karnataka	B. S. Yeddyurappa		2		11 November 2007 – 20 November 2007 () 30 May 2008 – 4 August 2011 ()
	D. V. Sadananda Gowda		1		4 August 2011 – 12 June 2012 ()
	Jagadish Shettar		1		12 June 2012 – 13 May 2013 ()
Madhya Pradesh	Sunder Lal Patwa	–	1		5 March 1990 – 15 December 1992 ()
	Uma Bharti		1		8 December 2003 – 23 August 2004 ()
	Babulal Gaur		1		23 August 2004 – 29 November 2005 ()
	Shivraj Singh Chouhan*		3		29 November 2005 – present ()
Maharashtra	Devendra Fadnavis*	100px	1		31 October 2014 – present ()
Rajasthan	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat		2		4 March 1990 – 15 December 1992 () 4 December 1993 – 1 December 1998 ()
	Vasundhara Raje*	100px	2		8 December 2003 – 18 December 2008 () 13 December 2013 – present ()
Uttarakhand	Nityanand Swami	–	1		9 November 2000 – 30 October 2001 ()
	Bhagat Singh Koshyari	–	1		30 October 2001 – 2 March 2002 ()
	B. C. Khanduri	–	2		8 March 2007 – 28 June 2009 () 11 September 2011 – 13 March 2012 ()
	Ramesh Pokhriyal	–	1		28 June 2009 – 11 September 2011 ()
Uttar Pradesh	Kalyan Singh		3		24 June 1991 – 6 December 1992 () 21 September 1997 – 21 February 1998 () 23 February 1998 – 12 November 1999 ()
	Ram Prakash Gupta	–	1		12 November 1999 – 28 October 2000 ()
	Rajnath Singh		1		28 October 2000 – 8 March 2002 ()

See also

• List of current Indian chief ministers
• List of chief ministers from Communist Party of India (Marxist)

References

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Specific

External links

• Official website of the BJP
• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons