Ruling parties (left) and alliances in Indian states (January 2026)

In the Republic of India, achief minister is thehead of government of each of thetwenty-eight states and three of the eightunion territories. According to theConstitution of India, at the state level, thegovernor isde jure head, and thede facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to thelegislative assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form thegovernment. The governor appoints the chief minister, whosecouncil of ministers arecollectively responsible to the assembly. Given they have the assembly's confidence, the chief minister's term is for a maximum of five years. There are no limits to thenumber of terms they can serve.^[1]

The chief minister usually serves as the leader of the house in the respective legislative assembly.^[2] Out of the thirty incumbents, exceptTamil Nadu'sM. K. Stalin,^[a] all other chief ministers also act as the leader of the house.

Of the 31 incumbents,fifteen incumbents belong to theBharatiya Janata Party andthree to theIndian National Congress, with no other party having more than one chief minister in office.Nitish Kumar fromBihar, has had thelongest tenure (19 years, 178 days) as a chief minister.^[4]Mamata Banerjee ofWest Bengal, serving since 20 March 2011 (for 14 years, 271 days), has the longest continuous incumbency.Kerala'sPinarayi Vijayan (aged 80) is the oldest andPema Khandu (aged 46), fromArunachal Pradesh is the youngest. Banejee andDelhi'sRekha Gupta are the only two incumbentfemale chief ministers.

List of chief ministers^[5]

No.	State/UT	Portrait	Name	Took office (tenure length)	Party[b]		Alliance	Ministry	Ref
1	Andhra Pradesh		N. Chandrababu Naidu	12 June 2024 (1 year, 248 days)	Telugu Desam Party		NDA (Kutami)	Naidu IV	[6]
2	Arunachal Pradesh		Pema Khandu	17 July 2016 (9 years, 213 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Khandu V	[7][8]
3	Assam		Himanta Biswa Sarma	10 May 2021 (4 years, 281 days)				Sarma	[9]
4	Bihar		Nitish Kumar	22 February 2015 (10 years, 358 days)	Janata Dal (United)			Nitish X	[4]
5	Chhattisgarh		Vishnu Deo Sai	13 December 2023 (2 years, 64 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party			Sai	[10]
6	Delhi[c]		Rekha Gupta	20 February 2025 (360 days)				Gupta	[11]
7	Goa		Pramod Sawant	19 March 2019 (6 years, 333 days)				Sawant II	[12]
8	Gujarat		Bhupendrabhai Patel	13 September 2021 (4 years, 155 days)				Patel II	[13]
9	Haryana		Nayab Singh Saini	12 March 2024 (1 year, 340 days)				Saini II	[14]
10	Himachal Pradesh		Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu	11 December 2022 (3 years, 66 days)	Indian National Congress		INDIA	Sukhu	[15]
11	Jammu and Kashmir[c]		Omar Abdullah	16 October 2024 (1 year, 122 days)	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference			Abdullah II	[16]
12	Jharkhand		Hemant Soren	4 July 2024 (1 year, 226 days)	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha		INDIA (MGB)	Soren IV	[17]
13	Karnataka		Siddaramaiah	20 May 2023 (2 years, 271 days)	Indian National Congress		INDIA	Siddaramaiah II	[18]
14	Kerala		Pinarayi Vijayan	25 May 2016 (9 years, 266 days)	Communist Party of India (Marxist)		INDIA (LDF)	Vijayan II	[19]
15	Madhya Pradesh		Mohan Yadav	13 December 2023 (2 years, 64 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Yadav	[20]
16	Maharashtra		Devendra Fadnavis	5 December 2024 (1 year, 72 days)			NDA (MY)	Fadnavis III	[21]
17	Manipur		Yumnam Khemchand Singh	4 February 2026 (11 days)			NDA	Singh	[22]
18	Meghalaya		Conrad Sangma	6 March 2018 (7 years, 346 days)	National People's Party		NDA (MDA)	Sangma II	[23]
19	Mizoram		Lalduhoma	8 December 2023 (2 years, 69 days)	Zoram People's Movement		None	Lalduhoma	[24]
20	Nagaland		Neiphiu Rio	8 March 2018 (7 years, 344 days)	Naga People's Front		NDA (PDA)	Rio V	[25]
21	Odisha		Mohan Charan Majhi	12 June 2024 (1 year, 248 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Majhi	[26]
22	Punjab		Bhagwant Mann	16 March 2022 (3 years, 336 days)	Aam Aadmi Party		None	Mann	[27]
23	Puducherry[c]		N. Rangaswamy	7 May 2021 (4 years, 284 days)	All India N.R. Congress		NDA	Rangaswamy IV	[28]
24	Rajasthan		Bhajan Lal Sharma	15 December 2023 (2 years, 62 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party			Sharma	[29]
25	Sikkim		Prem Singh Tamang	27 May 2019 (6 years, 264 days)	Sikkim Krantikari Morcha			Tamang II	[30]
26	Tamil Nadu		M. K. Stalin	7 May 2021 (4 years, 284 days)	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam		INDIA	Stalin	[31]
27	Telangana		Revanth Reddy	7 December 2023 (2 years, 70 days)	Indian National Congress			Reddy	[32]
28	Tripura		Manik Saha	15 May 2022 (3 years, 276 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		NDA	Saha II	[33]
29	Uttarakhand		Pushkar Singh Dhami	4 July 2021 (4 years, 226 days)				Dhami II	[34]
30	Uttar Pradesh		Yogi Adityanath	19 March 2017 (8 years, 333 days)				Yogi II	[35]
31	West Bengal		Mamata Banerjee	20 May 2011 (14 years, 271 days)	Trinamool Congress		INDIA	Banerjee III	[36]

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