page_title: List of chief ministers of Gujarat
section_title: Chief Ministers of Gujarat
hierarchical_section_title: List of chief ministers of Gujarat / Chief Ministers of Gujarat
caption_attribution_description: English: Jivraj Narayan Mehta, the then Director General of Health Services with the Government of India and later the first Chief Minister of the newly formed state of Gujarat.
context_page_description: The Chief Minister of Gujarat is the chief executive of the government of the Indian state of Gujarat. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.
  Gujarat state was created on 1 May 1960, composed of the Gujarati-speaking districts of Bombay State. Since then sixteen people have served as its chief minister including inaugural office-holder Jivraj Narayan Mehta, one of several Indian National Congress members to serve in the role and Narendra Modi who is Current Prime Minister and one of the several members of Bharatiya Janata Party.Longest-serving chief minister is Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who served for twelve and a half years from 2001 to 2014. After Modi resigned to become the 14th and current Prime Minister of India, his party-mate Anandiben Patel became the state's first woman chief minister. The incumbent chief minister is the BJP's Vijay Rupani, who has served since 7 August 2016.
caption: Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Gujarat's first chief minister
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