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Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan (aged 79) is the oldest Chief Minister, while Arunachal Pradesh's Pema Khandu (aged 44) is the youngest Chief Minister. [2] Nitish Kumar of Bihar has served for the most terms (9). [3] Thirteen incumbents belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party, three to the Indian National Congress , and two to the Aam Aadmi Party.
Five of the INC chief ministers have been women – Sucheta Kripalani for Uttar Pradesh, Nandini Satpathy for Odisha, Anwara Taimur for Assam, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal for Punjab, and Sheila Dikshit for Delhi. The longest-serving female chief minister was Sheila Dikshit, who served as the chief minister of Delhi for over fifteen years.
This list includes chief ministers who have served for more than 10 years in office. As of April 2024, 46 ministers have served for more than 10 years; of which only four have been female chief ministers: Sheila Dikshit (Delhi), J. Jayalalithaa (Tamil Nadu), Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), and Vasundhara Raje (Rajasthan).
In India, a chief minister is the elected head of government of each state out of the 28 [1] states and sometimes a union territory (UT). Currently, only the UTs of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir (currently vacant) and Puducherry have serving chief ministers. According to the [ [Constitution of India] ' [ [de facto)' executive authority rests with ...
History. Since 1952, National Capital Territory of Delhi has had 7 chief ministers, starting with the Indian National Congress party's Chaudhary Brahm Prakash.Shortly after his term ended, the office of chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi was abolished for 37 years until 2 December 1993, when the Bharatiya Janata Party's Madan Lal Khurana was sworn in.
Other countries. v. t. e. This is a list of the heads of state of India, from independence in 1947 to the present day. The current head of state of India is Droupadi Murmu, elected in 2022 after being nominated by the National Democratic Alliance . From 1947 to 1950, the head of state under the Indian Independence Act 1947 was King of India, [1 ...
Bhajan Lal Bishnoi is Haryana's longest-serving chief minister; he held office for 11 years and 10 months (4317 days). Devi Lal, the fifth chief minister of Haryana, went on to twice serve as Deputy Prime Minister of India, under prime ministers V. P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar. Om Prakash Chautala served the most discontinuous stints as Chief ...
Jayalalithaa, former general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, served as chief minister of Tamil Nadu and has the second-longest tenure; she held the office until her death in 2016, becoming the first female chief minister to die in office, while V. N. Janaki Ramachandran of the same state and party has the shortest ...