State
(past chief ministers)
(past chief ministers)
NAME
PARTY
Andhra Pradesh
(list)
(list)
N. Chandrababu Naidu
Telugu Desam Party
Arunachal Pradesh
(list)
(list)
Pema Khandu
Bharatiya Janata Party
Assam
(list)
(list)
Sarbananda Sonowal
Bharatiya Janata Party
Bihar
(list)
(list)
Nitish Kumar
Janata Dal (United)
Chhattisgarh
(list)
(list)
Raman Singh
Bharatiya Janata Party
Arvind Kejriwal
Manohar Parrikar
Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Haryana
(list)
(list)
Manohar Lal Khattar
Bharatiya Janata Party
Himachal Pradesh
(list)
(list)
Virbhadra Singh
Indian National Congress
Jammu and Kashmir
(list)
(list)
Mehbooba Mufti
Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party
Jharkhand
(list)
(list)
Raghubar Das
Bharatiya Janata Party
Karnataka
(list)
(list)
Siddaramaiah
Indian National Congress
Kerala
(list)
(list)
Pinarayi Vijayan
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Bharatiya Janata Party
Devendra Fadnavis
N. Biren Singh
Bharatiya Janata Party
Mukul Sangma
Indian National Congress
Mizoram
(list)
(list)
Lal Thanhawla
Indian National Congress
Nagaland
(list)
(list)
T. R. Zeliang
Naga People's Front
Odisha
(list)
(list)
Naveen Patnaik
Biju Janata Dal
Puducherry[b]
(list)
(list)
V. Narayanasamy
Indian National Congress
Punjab
(list)
(list)
Amarinder Singh
Indian National Congress
Rajasthan
(list)
(list)
Vasundhara Raje
Bharatiya Janata Party
Sikkim
(list)
(list)
Pawan Kumar Chamling
Sikkim Democratic Front
Tamil Nadu
(list)
(list)
Edappadi K. Palaniswami
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Telangana
(list)
(list)
K. Chandrashekar Rao
Telangana Rashtra Samithi
Tripura
(list)
(list)
Manik Sarkar
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Uttar Pradesh
(list)
(list)
Yogi Adityanath
Bharatiya Janata Party
Uttarakhand
(list)
(list)
Trivendra Singh Rawat
Bharatiya Janata Party
West Bengal
(list)
(list)
Mamata Banerjee
All India Trinamool Congress
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 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 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 thirty-one incumbents, three are women—Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu and Kashmir, and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Serving since December 1994 (for 22 years, 220 days), Sikkim's Pawan Kumar Chamling has the longest incumbency. Virbhadra Singh (b. 1934) of Himachal Pradesh is the oldest chief minister,[2] while Arunachal Pradesh's Pema Khandu (b. 1979) is the youngest. Thirteen incumbents belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party, six to the Indian National Congress and two to the Communist Party of India (Marxist); no other party has more than one chief minister in office.