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

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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