List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party


The Bharatiya Janata Party is one of the two major parties in the political system of the Republic of India, the other being the Indian National Congress., it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament. Established in 1980, the BJP's platform is generally considered as the right-wing of the political spectrum., 43 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister, out of which twelve are incumbent.
A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight states and three 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 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 43 BJP chief ministers, twelve are incumbent — Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Vijay Rupani in Gujarat, Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana, Jai Ram Thakur in Himachal Pradesh, B. S. Yediyurappa in Karnataka, Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh, N. Biren Singh in Manipur, Biplab Kumar Deb in Tripura, Trivendra Singh Rawat 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. Raman Singh, who was chief minister of Chhattisgarh for 15 years and 9 days between December 2003 and December 2018 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, an amalgam of political parties which included BJP's predecessor Bharatiya Jana Sangh. There have been five chief ministers from the BJP in Gujarat and Uttarakhand each, four chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh each, and three in Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Karnataka each.

Arunachal Pradesh

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Assam*124 5 2016 – present

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Chhattisgarh37 12 2003 – 16 December 2018

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Goa324 10 2000 – 2 2 2005

9 3 2012 – 8 11 2014

14 3 2017 – 17 3 2019
Goa18 11 2014 – 14 03 2017
Goa*119 3 2019 – present

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Gujarat214 3 1995 – 21 10 1995

4 3 1998 – 7 10 2001
Gujarat–121 10 1995 – 19 9 1996
Gujarat47 10 2001 – 22 5 2014
Gujarat122 5 2014 – 7 8 2016
Gujarat*17 8 2016 – present

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Haryana*226 10 2014 - present

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Himachal Pradesh15 3 1990 – 15 12 1992
Himachal Pradesh224 3 1998 – 5 3 2003

30 12 2007 – 25 12 2012
Himachal Pradesh*127 12 2017 – present

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Jharkhand–115 11 2000 – 18 3 2003
Jharkhand318 3 2003 – 2 3 2005

12 3 2005 – 18 9 2006

11 9 2010 – 13 6 2013
Jharkhand128 12 2014 – 29 12 2019

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Karnataka*411 11 2007 – 20 11 2007

30 5 2008 – 4 8 2011

17 5 2018 – 23 5 2018

26 7 2019 – present
Karnataka14 8 2011 – 12 6 2012
Karnataka112 6 2012 – 13 5 2013

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Madhya Pradesh–15 3 1990 – 15 12 1992
Madhya Pradesh18 12 2003 – 23 8 2004
Madhya Pradesh123 8 2004 – 29 11 2005
Madhya Pradesh*429 11 2005 – 16 12 2018

23 3 2020 – present

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Maharashtra231 10 2014 – 8 11 2019

23 11 2019 – 26 11 2019

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Manipur*115 3 2017 – present

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Rajasthan24 3 1990 – 15 12 1992

4 12 1993 – 1 12 1998
Rajasthan28 12 2003 – 18 12 2008

13 12 2013 – 16 December 2018

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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.
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Tripura*19 3 2018 – present

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Uttar Pradesh324 6 1991 – 6 12 1992

21 9 1997 - 12 11 1999
Uttar Pradesh–112 11 1999 – 28 10 2000
Uttar Pradesh128 10 2000 – 8 3 2002
Uttar Pradesh*119 3 2017 – present

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Uttarakhand19 11 2000 – 30 10 2001
Uttarakhand130 10 2001 – 2 3 2002
Uttarakhand28 3 2007 – 28 6 2009

11 9 2011 – 13 3 2012
Uttarakhand128 6 2009 – 11 9 2011
Uttarakhand*118 3 2017 – present

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