List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party - Wikipedia List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party States with a chief minister from the BJP States which had a chief minister from the BJP States which have never had a chief minister from the BJP Central - administrated Union territories The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) is one of the two major parties in the political system of Republic of India, the other being the Indian National Congress ( INC ). As of 2015, it is the country 's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament. Established in 1980, the BJP 's platform is generally considered as the right - wing of the political spectrum. As of March 2017, 40 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister, out of which thirteen are incumbent. A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty - nine states and two union territories ( UTs ) ( Delhi and Puducherry ). According to the Constitution of India, at the state - level, the governor is de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the state legislative assembly, the governor usually invites the party ( or coalition ) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given he / she has the assembly 's confidence, the chief minister 's term is usually for a maximum of five years ; there are no limits to the number of terms he / she can serve. Of the 40 BJP chief ministers, thirteen are incumbent -- Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam, Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh, Manohar Parrikar in Goa, Vijay Rupani in Gujarat, Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana, Raghubar Das in Jharkhand, Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh, Devendra Fadnavis in Maharashtra, N. Biren Singh in Manipur, Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan, Trivendra Singh Rawat in Uttarakhand, and Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh. Four of BJP chief ministers are / have been women -- Sushma Swaraj in Delhi, Uma Bharti in Madhya Pradesh, Anandiben Patel in Gujarat and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Holding the post since December 2003 ( for 7003503100000000000 ♠ 13 years, 282 days ), Raman Singh is the longest - serving chief minister from the BJP. Karnataka 's B.S. Yeddyurappa 's first tenure as the chief minister lasted for only nine days, which is the least tenure among chief ministers from BJP ; however, taking the total of all the tenures into consideration, Swaraj served as a chief minister for the shortest period of 52 days. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat of Rajasthan was the first chief minister from the BJP ; however some BJP leaders had already been elected before as the chief minister while being a member of the Janata Party ( JP ), an amalgam of political parties which included BJP 's predecessor Bharatiya Jana Sangh. There have been five chief ministers from the BJP in Gujarat and Uttarakhand each, four chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh each, and three in Delhi, Jharkhand, and Karnataka each. Contents 1 Chief Ministers from Bharatiya Janata Party 2 See also 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links Chief Ministers from Bharatiya Janata Party Key * -- Incumbent chief minister State Name Portrait Term ( s ) Total tenure length ( days ) Tenure ( s ) description Arunachal Pradesh Apang, Gegong Gegong Apang -- 364 000000002003 - 08 - 31 - 0000 31 August 2003 -- 000000002004 - 08 - 29 - 0000 29 August 2004 ( 364 ) Khandu, Pema Pema Khandu * 258 000000002016 - 12 - 31 - 0000 31 December 2016 -- present ( 258 ) Assam Sonowal, Sarbananda Sarbananda Sonowal * 479 000000002016 - 05 - 24 - 0000 24 May 2016 -- present ( 479 ) Chhattisgarh Singh, Raman Raman Singh * 5031 000000002003 - 12 - 07 - 0000 7 December 2003 -- present ( 5031 ) Delhi Khurana, Madan Lal Madan Lal Khurana 816 000000001993 - 12 - 02 - 0000 2 December 1993 -- 000000001996 - 02 - 26 - 0000 26 February 1996 ( 816 ) Verma, Sahib Singh Sahib Singh Verma -- 929 000000001996 - 02 - 26 - 0000 26 February 1996 -- 000000001998 - 10 - 12 - 0000 12 October 1998 ( 929 ) Swaraj, Sushma Sushma Swaraj 52 000000001998 - 10 - 12 - 0000 12 October 1998 -- 000000001998 - 12 - 03 - 0000 3 December 1998 ( 52 ) Goa Parrikar, Manohar Manohar Parrikar * 2733 000000002000 - 10 - 12 - 0000 12 October 2000 -- 000000002005 - 02 - 02 - 0000 2 February 2005 ( 1574 ) 000000002012 - 03 - 09 - 0000 9 March 2012 -- 000000002014 - 11 - 08 - 0000 8 November 2014 ( 974 ) 000000002017 - 03 - 14 - 0000 14 March 2017 -- present ( 185 ) Parsekar, Laxmikant Laxmikant Parsekar 857 000000002014 - 11 - 08 - 0000 8 November 2014 - 000000002017 - 03 - 14 - 0000 14 March 2017 ( 857 ) Gujarat Patel, Keshubhai Keshubhai Patel 1407 000000001995 - 05 - 19 - 0000 19 May 1995 -- 000000001995 - 10 - 21 - 0000 21 October 1995 ( 155 ) 000000001998 - 05 - 04 - 0000 4 May 1998 -- 000000002001 - 10 - 07 - 0000 7 October 2001 ( 1252 ) Mehta, Suresh Suresh Mehta -- 272 000000001995 - 10 - 21 - 0000 21 October 1995 -- 000000001996 - 07 - 19 - 0000 19 July 1996 ( 272 ) Modi, Narendra Narendra Modi 4610 000000002001 - 10 - 07 - 0000 7 October 2001 -- 000000002014 - 05 - 22 - 0000 22 May 2014 ( 4610 ) Patel, Anandiben Anandiben Patel 808 000000002014 - 05 - 22 - 0000 22 May 2014 -- 000000002016 - 08 - 07 - 0000 7 August 2016 ( 808 ) Rupani, Vijay Vijay Rupani * 404 000000002016 - 08 - 07 - 0000 7 August 2016 -- present ( 404 ) Haryana Khattar, Manohar Lal Manohar Lal Khattar * 1055 000000002014 - 10 - 26 - 0000 26 October 2014 -- present ( 1055 ) Himachal Pradesh Kumar, Shanta Shanta Kumar -- 1369 000000001990 - 03 - 05 - 0000 5 March 1990 -- 000000001993 - 12 - 03 - 0000 3 December 1993 ( 1369 ) Dhumal, Prem Kumar Prem Kumar Dhumal 3783 000000001998 - 05 - 24 - 0000 24 May 1998 -- 000000002003 - 03 - 06 - 0000 6 March 2003 ( 1747 ) 000000002007 - 05 - 30 - 0000 30 May 2007 -- 000000002012 - 12 - 25 - 0000 25 December 2012 ( 2036 ) Jharkhand Marandi, Babulal Babulal Marandi -- 853 000000002000 - 11 - 15 - 0000 15 November 2000 -- 000000002003 - 03 - 18 - 0000 18 March 2003 ( 853 ) Munda, Arjun Arjun Munda 2276 000000002003 - 03 - 18 - 0000 18 March 2003 -- 000000002005 - 03 - 02 - 0000 2 March 2005 ( 715 ) 000000002005 - 03 - 12 - 0000 12 March 2005 -- 000000002006 - 09 - 18 - 0000 18 September 2006 ( 555 ) 000000002010 - 09 - 11 - 0000 11 September 2010 -- 000000002013 - 06 - 13 - 0000 13 June 2013 ( 1006 ) Das, Raghubar Raghubar Das * 992 000000002014 - 12 - 28 - 0000 28 December 2014 -- present ( 992 ) Karnataka Yeddyurappa, B.S. B.S. Yeddyurappa 1170 000000002007 - 11 - 11 - 0000 11 November 2007 -- 000000002007 - 11 - 20 - 0000 20 November 2007 ( 9 ) 000000002008 - 05 - 30 - 0000 30 May 2008 -- 000000002011 - 08 - 04 - 0000 4 August 2011 ( 1161 ) Gowda, D.V. Sadananda D.V. Sadananda Gowda - 313 000000002011 - 08 - 04 - 0000 4 August 2011 -- 000000002012 - 06 - 12 - 0000 12 June 2012 ( 313 ) Shettar, Jagadish Jagadish Shettar 335 000000002012 - 06 - 12 - 0000 12 June 2012 -- 000000002013 - 05 - 13 - 0000 13 May 2013 ( 335 ) Madhya Pradesh Patwa, Sunder Lal Sunder Lal Patwa -- 1016 000000001990 - 03 - 05 - 0000 5 March 1990 -- 000000001992 - 12 - 15 - 0000 15 December 1992 ( 1016 ) Bharti, Uma Uma Bharti 259 000000002003 - 12 - 08 - 0000 8 December 2003 -- 000000002004 - 08 - 23 - 0000 23 August 2004 ( 259 ) Gaur, Babulal Babulal Gaur 463 000000002004 - 08 - 23 - 0000 23 August 2004 -- 000000002005 - 11 - 29 - 0000 29 November 2005 ( 463 ) Chouhan, Shivraj Singh Shivraj Singh Chouhan * 4308 000000002005 - 11 - 29 - 0000 29 November 2005 -- present ( 4308 ) Maharashtra Fadnavis, Devendra Devendra Fadnavis * 1050 000000002014 - 10 - 31 - 0000 31 October 2014 -- present ( 1050 ) Manipur Singh, N. Biren N. Biren Singh * 184 000000002017 - 03 - 15 - 0000 15 March 2017 -- present ( 184 ) Rajasthan Shekhawat, Bhairon Singh Bhairon Singh Shekhawat 2840 000000001990 - 03 - 04 - 0000 4 March 1990 -- 000000001992 - 12 - 15 - 0000 15 December 1992 ( 1017 ) 000000001993 - 12 - 04 - 0000 4 December 1993 -- 000000001998 - 12 - 01 - 0000 1 December 1998 ( 1823 ) Raje, Vasundhara Vasundhara Raje * 3209 000000002003 - 12 - 08 - 0000 8 December 2003 -- 000000002008 - 12 - 18 - 0000 18 December 2008 ( 1837 ) 000000002013 - 12 - 13 - 0000 13 December 2013 -- present ( 1372 ) Uttarakhand Swami, Nityanand Nityanand Swami -- 355 000000002000 - 11 - 09 - 0000 9 November 2000 -- 000000002001 - 10 - 30 - 0000 30 October 2001 ( 355 ) Koshyari, Bhagat Singh Bhagat Singh Koshyari 123 000000002001 - 10 - 30 - 0000 30 October 2001 -- 000000002002 - 03 - 02 - 0000 2 March 2002 ( 123 ) Khanduri, B.C. B.C. Khanduri -- 1027 000000002007 - 03 - 08 - 0000 8 March 2007 -- 000000002009 - 06 - 28 - 0000 28 June 2009 ( 843 ) 000000002011 - 09 - 11 - 0000 11 September 2011 -- 000000002012 - 03 - 13 - 0000 13 March 2012 ( 184 ) Pokhriyal, Ramesh Ramesh Pokhriyal 805 000000002009 - 06 - 28 - 0000 28 June 2009 -- 000000002011 - 09 - 11 - 0000 11 September 2011 ( 805 ) Rawat, Trivendra Singh Trivendra Singh Rawat * 181 000000002017 - 03 - 18 - 0000 18 March 2017 -- present ( 181 ) Uttar Pradesh Singh, Kalyan Kalyan Singh 1311 000000001991 - 06 - 24 - 0000 24 June 1991 -- 000000001992 - 12 - 06 - 0000 6 December 1992 ( 531 ) 000000001997 - 09 - 21 - 0000 21 September 1997 -- 000000001998 - 02 - 21 - 0000 21 February 1998 ( 153 ) 000000001998 - 02 - 23 - 0000 23 February 1998 -- 000000001999 - 11 - 12 - 0000 12 November 1999 ( 627 ) Gupta, Ram Prakash Ram Prakash Gupta -- 351 000000001999 - 11 - 12 - 0000 12 November 1999 -- 000000002000 - 10 - 28 - 0000 28 October 2000 ( 351 ) Singh, Rajnath Rajnath Singh 496 000000002000 - 10 - 28 - 0000 28 October 2000 -- 000000002002 - 03 - 08 - 0000 8 March 2002 ( 496 ) Adityanath, Yogi Yogi Adityanath * 180 000000002017 - 03 - 19 - 0000 19 March 2017 -- present ( 180 ) See also Conservatism portal India portal Politics portal List of current Indian chief ministers List of chief ministers from Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) Notes Jump up ^ Apang was a member of the INC while becoming the chief minister for the first time. However, he left the INC and formed the Arunachal Congress in 1996, and remained the chief minister till 1999. He was reelected as the chief minister in August 2003, and his party merged with the BJP in the same month. However, he again joined the INC in August 2004, and remained seated on the post of chief minister till 2007. On 20 February 2014, he once again joined the BJP. Jump up ^ Khandu became the chief minister in July 2016 while being a member of the INC. He joined the People 's Party of Arunachal in September 2016, and later defected to the BJP in December 2016. Jump up ^ Shanta Kumar became the chief minister for the first time ( 1977 -- 1980 ) while being a member of the JP. Jump up ^ Kailash Chandra Joshi is a BJP leader who became Madhya Pradesh chief minister in 1977 as a member of JP. Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha, who became Madhya Pradesh chief minister in 1978 as a JP member, was also a BJP leader. Jump up ^ Patwa became the chief minister for the first time ( January 1980 -- February 1980 ) while being a member of the JP. Jump up ^ Shekhawat became the chief minister for the first time ( 1977 -- 1980 ) while being a member of the JP. References General `` States of India since 1947 ''. worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 2 August 2013. Specific Jump up ^ Edward A. Gargan ( 29 November 1993 ). `` India 's Two Major Political Parties Stumble in Regional Elections ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2 August 2013. Jump up ^ `` In Numbers : The Rise of BJP and decline of Congress ''. Jump up ^ `` Sixteenth Lok Sabha ''. Lok Sabha. Retrieved 23 August 2015. Jump up ^ Sagarika Dutt ( 12 November 2006 ). India in a Globalised World. Manchester University Press. p. 64. ISBN 9781847792143. Retrieved 27 November 2013. BJP is a right wing party and gives priority to the unity of the country. Jump up ^ Durga Das Basu ( 1960 ). Introduction to the Constitution of India ( 20th ed. ). LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. pp. 241, 245. ISBN 978 - 81 - 8038 - 559 - 9. Jump up ^ `` Janata Party merged with the Bhartiya Janata Party ( BJP ) ''. jagranjosh.com. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013. ^ Jump up to : `` States of India since 1947 ''. worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 2 August 2013. ^ Jump up to : `` Apang back in Cong fold ''. The Economic Times. 29 August 2004. Retrieved 2 August 2013. Jump up ^ `` BJP bags its first NE state ''. The Economic Times. 31 August 2003. Retrieved 2 August 2013. Jump up ^ `` Congress stalwart Gegong Apang joins BJP ''. Times Of India. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2015. ^ Jump up to : `` BJP joins Pema Khandu 's government in Arunachal Pradesh ''. Rediff.com. 14 October 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2016. Jump up ^ `` BJP forms government in Arunachal Pradesh with 33 PPA MLAs joining it ''. The Economic Times. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2016. External links Official website of the BJP Media related to chief ministers from the BJP at Wikimedia Commons Bharatiya Janata Party Party Presidents Atal Bihari Vajpayee ( 1980 -- 86 ) Lal Krishna Advani ( 1986 -- 91 ) Murli Manohar Joshi ( 1991 -- 93 ) Lal Krishna Advani ( 1993 -- 98 ) Kushabhau Thakre ( 1998 -- 2000 ) Bangaru Laxman ( 2000 -- 01 ) Jana Krishnamurthi ( 2001 -- 02 ) Venkaiah Naidu ( 2002 -- 04 ) Lal Krishna Advani ( 2004 -- 06 ) Rajnath Singh ( 2006 -- 09 ) Nitin Gadkari ( 2009 -- 13 ) Rajnath Singh ( 2013 -- 14 ) Amit Shah ( 2014 -- present ) Current vice presidents Satya Pal Malik Parsottambhai Rupala Prabhat Jha Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Renu Devi Dinesh Sharma Om Prakash Mathur Shyam Jaju Avinash Rai Khanna Other prominent leaders Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Sunderlal Patwa Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sushil Kumar Modi Himanta Biswa Sarma Ram Naik Prime ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi Current chief ministers Vijay Rupani Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Manohar Parrikar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das Sarbananda Sonowal Pema Khandu N. Biren Singh Trivendra Singh Rawat Yogi Adityanath Spokespersons Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M.J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Siddharth Nath Singh Nalin Kohli Gaurav Bhatia Shaina NC Sambit Patra Nupur Sharma G.V.L. Narsimha Rao General secretaries P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh Political wings Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha Related organisations Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Others Hindutva Integral humanism Chief Ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party Arunachal Pradesh Gegong Apang Pema Khandu ( incumbent ) Assam Sarbananda Sonowal ( incumbent ) Chhattisgarh Raman Singh ( incumbent ) Delhi Madan Lal Khurana Sahib Singh Verma Sushma Swaraj Goa Manohar Parrikar ( incumbent ) Laxmikant Parsekar Gujarat Keshubhai Patel Suresh Mehta Narendra Modi Anandiben Patel Vijay Rupani ( incumbent ) Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar ( incumbent ) Himachal Pradesh Shanta Kumar Prem Kumar Dhumal Jharkhand Babulal Marandi Arjun Munda Raghubar Das ( incumbent ) Karnataka B.S. Yeddyurappa D.V. Sadananda Gowda Jagadish Shettar Madhya Pradesh Sunder Lal Patwa Uma Bharti Babulal Gaur Shivraj Singh Chouhan ( incumbent ) Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis ( incumbent ) Manipur N. Biren Singh ( incumbent ) Rajasthan Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Vasundhara Raje ( incumbent ) Uttarakhand Nityanand Swami Bhagat Singh Koshyari B.C. Khanduri Ramesh Pokhriyal Trivendra Singh Rawat ( incumbent ) Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh Ram Prakash Gupta Rajnath Singh Yogi Adityanath ( incumbent ) Bharatiya Janata Party Lists of chief ministers of Indian states ( and current incumbents ) Andhra Pradesh N. Chandrababu Naidu Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu Assam Sarbananda Sonowal Bihar Nitish Kumar Chhattisgarh Raman Singh Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Goa Manohar Parrikar Gujarat Vijay Rupani Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti Jharkhand Raghubar Das Karnataka Siddaramaiah Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis Manipur N. Biren Singh Meghalaya Mukul Sangma Mizoram Lal Thanhawla Nagaland T.R. Zeliang Odisha Naveen Patnaik Puducherry V. Narayanasamy Punjab Amarinder Singh Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling Tamil Nadu Edappadi K. Palaniswami Telangana K. 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