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The office of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir is vacant with no elections held since the former state was reorganized in 2019. Two of the incumbents are women — Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, who has the longest continuous incumbency serving since 20 March 2011 (for 13 years, 123 days) and Atishi Marlena Singh in Delhi.
As of September 2024, 24 Chief ministers have served for more than 15 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). Pawan Kumar Chamling has served five consecutive terms as Chief Minister of Sikkim completing a ...
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, the governor is a state's head, but de facto ...
The chief minister's term is usually for a maximum of five years with the confidence of the assembly. There are no limits to the number of terms the chief minister can serve. [7] The deputy Chief Minister is a member of the state government and usually the second highest ranking executive officer of their state's council of ministers. [8]
State Governments of India are the governments ruling over the 28 states and 3 union territories (8 union territories of India but 3 union territories have Legislative Assembly as well as governments) of India with the head of Council of Ministers in every state being the Chief Minister. Power is divided between the Union government (federal ...
The Government of India (ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra, legally the Union Government or Union of India[1] and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories. The government is led by the prime ...
The Governor of West Bengal, and the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee are also seen. In the 2016 assembly elections, All India Trinamool Congress won with a landslide two-thirds majority under Mamata Banerjee winning 211 seats out of total 293, [137] who has been elected as Chief Minister West Bengal for the second term. [138]
english.www.gov.in. The Union Council of Ministers, [1] also called Union Cabinet is the principal executive organ of the Government of India, which functions as the senior decision-making body of the executive branch. It is chaired by the prime minister and consists of the heads of each of the executive government ministries.