List of Chief Ministers in India

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A Chief Minister in India is the elected head of government at the level of States, and is vested with most of

the executive powers. He or she is elected by legislators of the political party or coalition commanding an assembly majority, and serves a five-year term with a provision of re-election. The Governor is the head of state, but his or her role is largely ceremonial. There are a total of thirty Chief Ministers elected by all twenty-eight states and two out of the seven union territories. The following table lists the parties that hold power in various states.

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Ministers by State
Name Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy Jarbom Gamlin Tarun Kumar Gogoi Nitish Kumar* Raman Singh Took Office 2010-11-25 2011-05-05 2001-05-17 2005-11-24 2003-12-07 1998-12-03 2007-06-08 2001-10-07 2005-03-05 2007-12-30 Party Indian National Congress Indian National Congress Indian National Congress Janata Dal (United) Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janata Party all all all all all all all all all all List 50 55 74 59 58 72 56 60 63 66 Age

'State Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

National Capital Territory Sheila Dikshit of Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Digambar Kamat Narendra Modi Bhupinder Singh Hooda Prem Kumar Dhumal

11

Jammu & Kashmir

Omar Abdullah*

2009-01-05

Jammu & Kashmir National all Conference Bharatiya Janata Party Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress Indian National all all all all all all

40

12 13 14 15 16 17

Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur

Arjun Munda * B.S.Yediyurappa Oommen Chandy* Shivraj Singh Chauhan Prithviraj Chavan Okram Ibobi Singh

2010-09-11 2008-05-28 2011-05-18 2005-11-29 2010-11-11 2002-03-02

42 67 67 51 64 62

Congress 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Orissa Puducherry Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Mukul Sangma Lal Thanhawla Neiphiu Rio* Naveen Patnaik N. Rangaswamy Parkash Singh Badal* Ashok Gehlot Pawan Kumar Chamling 2010-04-20 2008-12-07 2008-03-12 2000-03-05 2011-05-16 2007-02-28 2008-12-12 1994-12-12 Indian National Congress Indian National Congress all all 45 68 60 64 60 83 59 60

Nagaland People's all Front Biju Janata Dal All India NR Congress Shiromani Akali Dal Indian National Congress Sikkim Democratic Front all all all all all

26

Tamil Nadu

J. Jayalalithaa

2011-05-16

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra all Kazhagam Communist Party of India (Marxist) Bharatiya Janata Party Bahujan Samaj Party All India Trinamool Congress all all all

63

27 28 29

Tripura Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh

Manik Sarkar Ramesh Pokhriyal Mayawati

1998-03-11 2009-06-24 2007-05-13

61 52 55

30

West Bengal

Mamata Banerjee*

2011-05-20

all

56

Union Territories * Coalition government

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party (the map alongside needs some editing)

Indian state governments led by various political parties as of May 2011

As of 2011, this is the current list of parties that hold power to the number of states.

Number of Party States/Ter ritories won Indian Nation al 14 Congr ess Bharat iya 10 Janata Party Comm unist Party of 1 India (Marxi st) Bahuj an 1 Samaj Party Biju Janata 1 Dal Sikki m Demo 1 cratic Front All India Anna Dravid a 1 Munn etra Kazha gam All India Trina 1 mool Congr

States/Territories

Current coalition (2011)

Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Haryana,Maharastra, Manipur, Meghalaya,Mizoram, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Delhi*

United Progressive Alliance

Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya National Democratic Alliance Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand,Nagaland, Bihar, Punj ab

Tripura

Third Front

Uttar Pradesh

Third Front

Orissa

Third Front

Sikkim

Tamil Nadu

Third Front

West Bengal

United Progressive Alliance

ess Third Front United Progressive Alliance is in power in 14 states *(+1 territory), National Democratic Alliance is in power in 10 states, and the Third Front is in power in 5 states. The Sikkim Democratic Front, an unaligned political party, is in power in the tiny hill state of Sikkim. [edit]References Pondicherry
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