List of Chief Ministers of India

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 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 incumbent Chief Ministers of the
various states

STATE	NAME	TOOK OFFICE	PARTY	FMR
Andhra Pradesh	Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy	2004-05-14	Indian National Congress	all
Arunachal Pradesh	Gegong Apang	2003-08-03	Indian National Congress	all
Assam	Tarun Kumar Gogoi	2001-05-17	Indian National Congress	all
Bihar	Nitish Kumar	2005-11-24	Janata Dal (United)	all
Chhattisgarh	Raman Singh	2003-12-07	Bharatiya Janata Party	all
Delhi†	Sheila Dikshit	1998-12-03	Indian National Congress	all
Goa	Pratapsingh Raoji Rane	2005-02-02	Indian National Congress	all
Gujarat	Narendra Modi	2001-10-07	Bharatiya Janata Party	all
Haryana	Bhupinder Singh Hooda	2005-03-05	Indian National Congress	all
Himachal Pradesh	Virbhadra Singh	2003-03-06	Indian National Congress	all
Jammu and Kashmir	Ghulam Nabi Azad	2005-11-02	Indian National Congress	all
Jharkhand	Madhu Koda	2006-09-18	Independent	all
Karnataka	H. D. Kumaraswamy	2006-02-03	Janata Dal (Secular)	all
Kerala	V.S. Achuthanandan	2006-05-18	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	all
Madhya Pradesh	Shivraj Singh Chauhan	2005-11-29	Bharatiya Janata Party	all
Maharashtra	Vilasrao Deshmukh	2004-11-01	Indian National Congress	all
Manipur	Okram Ibobi Singh	2002-03-07	Indian National Congress	all
Meghalaya	J. Dringwell Rymbai	2006-06-15	Indian National Congress	all
Mizoram	Pu Zoramthanga	1998-12-04	Mizo National Front	all
Nagaland	Neiphiu Rio	2003-03-06	Nagaland People's Front	all
Orissa	Naveen Patnaik	2004-05-17	Biju Janata Dal	all
Pondicherry†	N. Rangaswamy	2001-10-27	Indian National Congress	all
Punjab	Amarinder Singh	2002-02-27	Indian National Congress	all
Rajasthan	Vasundhara Raje Scindia	2003-12-08	Bharatiya Janata Party	all
Sikkim	Pawan Kumar Chamling	1994-12-12	Sikkim Democratic Front	all
Tamil Nadu	M. Karunanidhi	2006-05-12	DMK	all
Tripura	Manik Sarkar	1998-03-11	CPI-M	all
Uttarakhand	Narayan Dutt Tiwari	2002-03-02	Indian National Congress	all
Uttar Pradesh	Mulayam Singh Yadav	2003-08-29	Samajwadi Party	all
West Bengal	Buddhadeb Bhattacharya	2000-10-06	CPI-M	all