Chief Ministers of India
The Chief Ministers of India are the heads of their respective state governments. There are Chief Ministers in India in every one of the twenty-nine states and even in two Union Territories (Delhi and Puducherry).
Following elections to the state legislative assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government in the state. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly.
Updated List of Chief Ministers of India
Andhra Pradesh N. Chandrababu Naidu Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu Assam Sarbananda Sonowal Bihar Nitish Kumar Chhattisgarh Raman Singh Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Goa Manohar Parrikar Gujarat Vijay Rupani Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar Himachal Pradesh Jai Ram Thakur Jammu & Kashmir Governor's Rule Jharkhand Raghubar Das Karnataka H.D. Kumaraswamy Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan
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Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis Manipur N. Biren Singh Meghalaya Conrad Sangma Mizoram Lal Thanhawla Nagaland Neiphu Rio Odisha Naveen Patnaik Puducherry V. Narayanasamy Punjab Amarinder Singh Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling Tamil Nadu Edappadi K. Palaniswami Telangana K. Chandrasekhar Rao Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat West Bengal Mamata Banerjee
Some Trivia about Chief Ministers in India
Of the thirty-one possible states and union territories, three Chief Minister of Indian States are women, namely - Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu and Kashmir, and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Sikkim's Pawan Kumar Chamling has the longest incumbency, serving since December 1994 (for 21 years, 161 days). Parkash Singh Badal (born 1927) of Punjab is the oldest of all chief ministers in India.
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