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Mohan Yadav becomes 50th CM from BJP: List of all Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Ministers till now

Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Dr Raman Singh (Chhattisgarh) and Narendra Modi (Gujarat) are some of the longest-serving Chief Ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the party's history of 43 years.

Mohan Yadav Image Source : PTIMadhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav.

Madhya Pradesh gets new CM: Mohan Yadav took oath as the 19th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday (December 13). Jagdish Devda and Rajendra Shukla also became Deputy Chief Ministers in Madhya Pradesh. Vishnu Deo Sai also sworn in as Chhattisgarh's fourth Chief Minister later in the day and became the second BJP CM in the state after Dr Raman Singh. Bhajan Lal Sharma, the first-time MLA, will lead the government in Rajasthan. He will be taking oath as Rajasthan's CM on December 15. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) surprised everyone by winning three states Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in the just concluded Assembly Elections 2023. The party won 163 seats in Madhya Pradesh and retained its government. It ousted the Congress party by winning 115 and 54 seats in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh respectively. The saffron party also increased its tally in Telangana and Mizoram.  

Who was the first BJP Chief Minister?

With his swearing-in, Mohan Yadav became the 50th Chief Minister of the BJP. The BJP has been in power on its own in several states since its inception on April 6 in 1980 but failed to install a CM in any state till 1990. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was the first BJP leader to become Chief Minister of any Indian state on March 4, 1990. Sunder Lal Patwa and Shanta Kumar became the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh respectively on March 5, 1990, after BJP landslides in these states. Shekhawat, who took oath as the Rajasthan CM in 1990, was the Chief Minister from 1977 to 1980 representing the Janata Party. Similarly, Patwa was the CM of Madhya Pradesh in 1980 as a Janata Party leader.

How many states are BJP and NDA ruling now?

The party which won just two Lok Sabha seats (Mehsana and Hanamkonda) in the 1984 Lok Sabha polls is now ruling the country with 303 seats. 12 state governments including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Assam, Goa, Manipur, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana and Uttarakhand have been led by a BJP Chief Minister. The party is also sharing power with Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) and NCP (Ajit Pawar) in Maharashtra, Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) in Nagaland, National People's Party (NPP) in Meghalaya and Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) in Sikkim. The party is also ruling the Union Territory of Puducherry with All India NR Congress (AINRC). The BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh for the first time in 1991 when Kalyan Singh became the CM. The party formed its first governments in Delhi in 1993 (Madan Lal Khurana), Gujarat in 1995 (Keshubhai Patel), Jharkhand (Babulal Marandi), Uttarakhand (Nityanand Swami) and Goa (Manohar Parrikar) in 2000, Chhattisgarh (Raman Singh) and Arunachal Pradesh (Gegong Apang) in 2003, Karnataka (BS Yediyurappa) in 2008, Maharashtra (Devendra Fadnavis) and Haryana (Manohar Lal Khattar) in 2014, Assam (Sarbananda Sonowal) in 2016, Manipur (N Biren Singh) in 2017 and Tripura (Biplab Kumar Deb) in 2018. The party has not been successful in having its own CM in West Bengal, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland, Sikkim, Mizoram and Meghalaya.

Who are the longest-serving CMs of BJP?

Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam, Dr Pramod Sawant in Goa, Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana, Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh, Pushkar Singh Dhami in Uttarakhand, N Biren Singh in Manipur, Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Dr Manik Saha in Tripura and Bhupendrabhai Patel in Gujarat are the nine incumbent Chief Ministers of the party. Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh with over 16 years (2005 to 2018 and 2020 to till date) and Dr Raman Singh of Chhattisgarh with 15 years (2003 to 2018) are the longest-serving Chief Ministers of the BJP.      

Who are BJP's women Chief Ministers till date?

Sushma Swaraj was the first woman Chief Minister of the BJP. She was the Delhi CM for a brief period in 1998. Vasundhara Raje (Rajasthan) and Uma Bharti (Madhya Pradesh) became the CMs in 2003. Anandiben Patel was the Gujarat Chief Minister from 2014 to 2016. 

BJP Chief Ministers in different states till date

List of BJP Chief Ministers
S. No. Chief Minister State Tenure
1. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Rajasthan March 4, 1990 to December 15, 1992

December 4, 1993 to December 1, 1998
2. Shanta Kumar Himachal Pradesh March 5, 1990 to December 15, 1992
3. Sunder Lal Patwa Madhya Pradesh March 5, 1990 to December 15, 1992
4. Kalyan Singh Uttar Pradesh

June 24, 1991 to December 6, 1992

September 21, 1997 to November 12, 1999

5. Madan Lal Khurana Delhi December 2, 1993 to February 26, 1996
6. Keshubhai Patel Gujarat

March 14, 1995 to October 21, 1995

March 4, 1998 to October 6, 2001

7. Suresh Mehta Gujarat October 21, 1995 to September 19, 1996
8. Sahib Singh Verma Delhi February 26, 1996 to October 12, 1998
9. Prem Kumar Dhumal Himachal Pradesh

March 24, 1998 to March 5, 2003

December 30, 2007 to December 25, 2012

10. Sushma Swaraj Delhi October 12, 1998 to December 3, 1998
11. Ram Prakash Gupta Uttar Pradesh November 12, 1999 to October 28, 2000
12. Manohar Parrikar Goa

October 24, 2000 to June 2, 2002

June 3, 2002 to February 2, 2005

March 9, 2012 to November 8, 2014

March 14, 2017 to March 17, 2019

13. Rajnath Singh Uttar Pradesh October 28, 2000 to March 8, 2002
14. Nityanand Swami Uttarakhand November 9, 2000 to October 29, 2001
15. Babulal Marandi Jharkhand November 15, 2000 to March 18, 2003
16. Narendra Modi Gujarat

October 7, 2001 to December 21, 2002

December 22, 2002 to December 22, 2007

December 23, 2007 to December 25, 2012

December 26, 2012 to May 22, 2014

17. Bhagat Singh Koshyari Uttarakhand October 30, 2001 to March 1, 2002
18. Arjun Munda Jharkhand

March 18, 2003 March 2, 2005

March 12, 2005 to September 19, 2006

September 11, 2010 to January 18, 2013

19. Gegong Apang Arunachal Pradesh August 31, 2003 to August 29, 2004
20. Dr Raman Singh Chhattisgarh

December 7, 2003 to December 11, 2008

December 12, 2008 to December 11, 2013

December 12, 2013 to December 16, 2018

21. Uma Bharti Madhya Pradesh December 8, 2003 to August 22, 2004
22. Vasundhara Raje Rajasthan

December 8, 2003 to December 12, 2008

December 13, 2013 to December 17, 2018

23. Babulal Gaur Madhya Pradesh August 23, 2004 to November 28, 2005
24. Shivraj Singh Chouhan Madhya Pradesh

November 29, 2005 to December 11, 2008

December 12, 2008 to December 13, 2013

December 14, 2013 to December 16, 2018

March 23, 2020 to December 13, 2023

25. Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri Uttarakhand

March 7, 2007 to June 26, 2009

September 11, 2011 to March 13, 2012

26. BS Yediyurappa Karnataka

November 12, 2007 to November 19, 2007

May 30, 2008 to August 4, 2011

May 17, 2018 to May 23, 2018

July 26, 2019 to July 28, 2021

27. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Uttarakhand June 27, 2009 to September 10, 2011
28. DV Sadananda Gowda Karnataka August 5, 2011 to July 12, 2012
29. Jagadish Shettar Karnataka July 12, 2012 to May 13, 2013
30. Anandiben Patel Gujarat May 22, 2014 to August 6, 2016
31. Laxmikant Parsekar Goa November 8, 2014 to March 13, 2017
32. Manohar Lal Khattar Haryana

October 26, 2014 to October 26, 2019

October 27, 2019 to till date

33. Devendra Fadnavis Maharashtra

October 31, 2014 to November 12, 2019

November 23, 2019 to November 28, 2019

34. Raghubar Das Jharkhand December 28, 2014 to December 29, 2019
35. Sarbananda Sonowal Assam May 24, 2016 to May 9, 2021
36. Vijay Rupani Gujarat

August 7, 2016 to December 25, 2017

December 26, 2017 to September 13, 2021

37. Pema Khandu Arunachal Pradesh

December 31, 2016 to May 28, 2019

May 29, 2019 to till date

38. Nongthombam Biren Singh Manipur

March 15, 2017 to March 20, 2022

March 21, 2022 to till date

39. Trivendra Singh Rawat Uttarakhand March 18, 2017 to March 10, 2021
40. Yogi Adityanath Uttar Pradesh

March 19, 2017 to March 24, 2022

March 25, 2022 to till date

41. Jairam Thakur Himachal Pradesh December 27, 2017 to December 11, 2022
42. Biplab Kumar Deb Tripura March 9, 2018 to May 14, 2022
43. Dr Pramod Sawant Goa

March 19, 2019 to March 27, 2022

March 28, 2022 to till date

44. Tirath Singh Rawat Uttarakhand March 10, 2021 to July 4, 2021
45. Himanta Biswa Sarma Assam May 10, 2021 to till date
46. Pushkar Singh Dhami Uttarakhand

July 4, 2021 to March 22, 2022

March 23, 2022 to till date

47. Basavaraj Bommai Karnataka July 28, 2021 to May 17, 2023
48. Bhupendrabhai Patel Gujarat

September 13, 2021 to December 11, 2022

December 12, 2022 to till date

49. Dr Manik Saha Tripura

May 15, 2022 to March 7, 2023

March 8, 2023 to till date

50.

Dr Mohan Yadav

Madhya Pradesh December 13 to till date

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