Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh

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The chief minister of Andhra Pradesh is the head of government of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. As per the Constitution of India, the state's governor is the state's de jure head, and the de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Andhra Pradesh 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 that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1] Usually, the chief minister also serves as leader of the house in the legislative assembly.[2]

Since 1953, there have been 19 chief ministers, with the majority belonging to the Indian National Congress (INC). In 1953, Tanguturi Prakasam from the INC became the first chief minister of the Andhra State. In 1956, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy from the INC became the first chief minister of Andhra Pradesh following the reorganisation of Indian states. The longest-serving chief minister was N. Chandrababu Naidu from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), who held the office for over thirteen years across multiple terms, while N. Bhaskara Rao from the TDP had the shortest tenure of 31 days. N. Chandrababu Naidu was also the first chief minister of the residuary Andhra Pradesh following the formation of Telangana in 2014.

Notably, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy later became the President of India, while P. V. Narasimha Rao, also from the INC and the fourth chief minister of Andhra Pradesh went on to serve as the Prime Minister of India. N. T. Rama Rao from the TDP was the first non-INC chief minister of the state. There have been three instances of President's rule in Andhra Pradesh, most recently in 2014.

The incumbent chief minister of the state is N. Chandrababu Naidu from the TDP, since 12 June 2024.

History

The Andhra State, a precursor to the modern state of Andhra Pradesh, was established on 1 October 1953, following the Andhra movement. The formation of Andhra State was made possible by the Andhra State Act, which was passed in the Parliament of India in September 1953. This significant development was ignited by a determined fast led by Potti Sreeramulu, whose sacrifice ultimately catalysed the demand for a new linguistic state.

The newly created Andhra State included 11 districts in the Telugu-speaking region of the Madras State, with Kurnool as its capital and a unicameral parliamentary system with a legislative assembly chamber.[3][4][5][6]

A total of two people have served as the chief minister during the period, of which both of them belonged to the Indian National Congress. Bezawada Gopala Reddy was the longest-serving chief minister of the region during this period. Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi was the only governor in office during this period.

Andhra Pradesh was officially created on 1 November 1956, through the enactment of the States Reorganisation Act in August 1956. This led to the dissolution of Hyderabad State, with its divisions becoming part of Mysore State and Bombay State. Concurrently, the integration of Telugu-speaking regions into Andhra State laid the foundation of a bicameral parliamentary system consisting of Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly chambers.[7][8]

Originally situated in Hyderabad, the capital later moved to Amaravati in 2017 following the implementation of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, which led to the formation of Telangana on 2 June 2014 and a reduction in the assembly constituencies from 294 to 175. Despite these significant boundary changes, the state continued to be recognised as Andhra Pradesh.[9][10]

Currently, there are a total of 175 assembly constituencies in the state.[11] The legislative council is the upper house with 58 members.[12] The INC are the longest-ruling political parties in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Chief Ministers of Andhra State (1953–1956)

Key
Portrait Minister
Template:Small 		Election Term of office Political party Ministry
From To Period
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Tanguturi Prakasam
Template:Small 		Template:Ndash
Template:Small 		1 October 1953 15 November 1954 Template:Ayd Indian National Congress Prakasam
Position vacant (15 November 1954Template:Snd28 March 1955)
President's rule was imposed during this periodTemplate:Efn
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Bezawada Gopala Reddy
Template:Small 		1955
Template:Small 		28 March 1955 31 October 1956 Template:Ayd Indian National Congress Gopala

Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh (1956Template:Ndashpresent)

Key
Portrait Minister
Template:Small 		Election Term of office Political party Ministry
From To Period
rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Template:Small 		1955
Template:Small,
1957
Template:Small 		1 November 1956 11 January 1960Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Indian National Congress Neelam I
Neelam II
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Damodaram Sanjivayya
Template:Small 		11 January 1960 12 March 1962 Template:Ayd Sanjivayya
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Template:Small 		1962
Template:Small 		12 March 1962Template:Ref label 20 February 1964Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Neelam III
rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
Template:Small 		21 February 1964 30 September 1971 Template:Ayd Kasu I
1967
Template:Small 		Kasu II
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop P. V. Narasimha Rao
Template:Small 		1972
Template:Small 		30 September 1971 10 January 1973 Template:Ayd Indian National Congress (Requisitionists) Narasimha
Position vacant (11 January 1973Template:Snd10 December 1973)
President's rule was imposed during the period (18 January 1973[13]Template:Snd10 December 1973)Template:Efn
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Jalagam Vengala Rao
Template:Small 		1972
Template:Small 		10 December 1973 6 March 1978 Template:Ayd Indian National Congress (Requisitionists) Jalagam
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Marri Chenna Reddy
Template:Small 		1978
Template:Small 		6 March 1978 10 October 1980Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Indian National Congress (Indira) Chenna I
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Tanguturi Anjaiah
Template:Small 		11 October 1980 24 February 1982Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Anjaiah
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy
Template:Small 		24 February 1982 20 September 1982Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Bhavanam
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy
Template:Small 		20 September 1982 9 January 1983 Template:Ayd Kotla I
bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Template:CSS image crop Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
Template:Small 		1983
Template:Small 		9 January 1983 16 August 1984Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Telugu Desam Party Taraka I
bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Template:CSS image crop Nadendla Bhaskara Rao
Template:Small 		16 August 1984 16 September 1984Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Bhaskara
rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Template:CSS image crop Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
Template:Small 		16 September 1984Template:Ref label 2 December 1989 Template:Ayd Taraka II
1985
Template:Small 		Taraka III
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Marri Chenna Reddy
Template:Small 		1989
Template:Small 		3 December 1989Template:Ref label 17 December 1990Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Indian National Congress (Indira) Chenna II
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy
Template:Small 		17 December 1990 9 October 1992Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Janardhana
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy
Template:Small 		9 October 1992Template:Ref label 12 December 1994 Template:Ayd Kotla II
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao
Template:Small 		1994
Template:Small 		12 December 1994Template:Ref label 1 September 1995Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Telugu Desam Party Taraka IV
rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop N. Chandrababu Naidu
Template:Small 		1 September 1995 13 May 2004 Template:Ayd Naidu I
1999
Template:Small 		Naidu II
rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Template:CSS image crop Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
Template:Small 		2004
Template:Small 		14 May 2004 2 September 2009Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Indian National Congress Rajasekhara I
2009
Template:Small 		Rajasekhara II
bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Template:CSS image crop Konijeti Rosaiah
Template:Small 		3 September 2009 24 November 2010Template:Ref label Template:Ayd Rosaiah
bgcolor="Template:Party color" | Template:CSS image crop N. Kiran Kumar Reddy
Template:Small 		25 November 2010 1 March 2014 Template:Ayd Kiran
Position vacant (1 MarchTemplate:Snd7 June 2014)
President's rule was imposed during this periodTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop N. Chandrababu Naidu
Template:Small 		2014
Template:Small 		8 June 2014Template:Ref label 29 May 2019 Template:Ayd Telugu Desam Party Naidu III
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
Template:Small 		2019
Template:Small 		30 May 2019 11 June 2024 Template:Ayd YSR Congress Party Jagan
bgcolor="Template:Party color"| Template:CSS image crop N. Chandrababu Naidu
Template:Small 		2024
Template:Small 		12 June 2024Template:Ref label Incumbent Template:Ayd Telugu Desam Party Naidu IV

Statistics

List by chief minister

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# Chief Minister Party Term of office
Longest continuous term Total duration of chief ministership
1 Nara Chandrababu Naidu Template:Party name with color 8 years, 255 days Template:Age in years and days
2 Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Template:Party name with color 7 years, 221 days 7 years, 221 days
3 Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao Template:Party name with color 5 years, 76 days 7 years, 194 days
4 Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy Template:Party name with color 5 years, 111 days 5 years, 111 days
5 Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy Template:Party name with color 5 years, 12 days 5 years, 12 days
6 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Template:Party name with color 3 years, 71 days 5 years, 51 days
7 Jalagam Vengala Rao Template:Party name with color 4 years, 86 days 4 years, 86 days
8 Marri Chenna Reddy Template:Party name with color 2 years, 218 days 3 years, 232 days
9 Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy Template:Party name with color 3 years, 96 days 3 years, 96 days
10 Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy Template:Party name with color 2 years, 64 days 2 years, 175 days
11 Damodaram Sanjeevaiah Template:Party name with color 2 years, 60 days 2 years, 60 days
12 Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy Template:Party name with color 1 year, 297 days 1 year, 297 days
13 Bezawada Gopala Reddy Template:Party name with color 1 year, 214 days 1 year, 214 days
14 Tanguturi Anjaiah Template:Party name with color 1 year, 136 days 1 year, 136 days
15 Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao Template:Party name with color 1 year, 102 days 1 year, 102 days
16 Konijeti Rosaiah Template:Party name with color 1 year, 82 days 1 year, 82 days
17 Tanguturi Prakasam Template:Party name with color 1 year, 45 days 1 year, 45 days
18 Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy Template:Party name with color 208 days 208 days
19 Nadendla Bhaskara Rao Template:Party name with color 31 days 31 days

List by party

# Party Number of chief ministers Total days of holding the office
1 Template:Full party name with color 15 Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". daysTemplate:Efn
2 Template:Full party name with color 3 Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". days
3 Template:Full party name with color 1 Template:Age in days days

Timeline

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 id:tdp    value:rgb(0.98824,0.93334,0.13725) legend: TDP
 id:ysrcp  value:rgb(0.08235,0.41176,0.78040) legend: YSRCP
 id:vacant value:black legend: Vacant
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from: 01/10/1953 till: 15/11/1954 color:inc text:"Tanguturi Prakasam" fontsize:10
from: 15/11/1954 till: 29/03/1955 color:vacant text:"Vacant (President's rule)" fontsize:10
from: 30/03/1955 till: 30/10/1956 color:inc text:"Bezawada Gopala Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 01/11/1956 till: 11/01/1960 color:inc text:"Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 11/01/1960 till: 12/03/1962 color:inc text:"Damodaram Sanjeevaiah" fontsize:10
from: 12/03/1962 till: 20/02/1964 color:inc text:"Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 21/02/1964 till: 30/09/1971 color:inc text:"Kasu Brahmananda Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 30/09/1971 till: 10/01/1973 color:inc text:"Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao" fontsize:10
from: 10/01/1973 till: 09/12/1973 color:vacant text:"Vacant (President's rule)" fontsize:10
from: 10/12/1973 till: 06/03/1978 color:inc text:"Jalagam Vengala Rao" fontsize:10
from: 06/03/1978 till: 10/10/1980 color:inc text:"Marri Chenna Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 11/10/1980 till: 24/02/1982 color:inc text:"Tanguturi Anjaiah" fontsize:10
from: 24/02/1982 till: 20/09/1982 color:inc text:"Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 20/09/1982 till: 09/01/1983 color:inc text:"Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 09/01/1983 till: 16/08/1984 color:tdp text:"Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao" fontsize:10
from: 16/08/1984 till: 16/09/1984 color:tdp text:"Nadendla Bhaskara Rao" fontsize:10
from: 16/09/1984 till: 02/12/1989 color:tdp text:"Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao" fontsize:10
from: 03/12/1989 till: 17/12/1990 color:inc text:"Marri Chenna Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 17/12/1990 till: 09/10/1992 color:inc text:"Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 09/10/1992 till: 11/12/1994 color:inc text:"Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 12/12/1994 till: 01/09/1995 color:tdp text:"Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao" fontsize:10
from: 01/09/1995 till: 13/05/2004 color:tdp text:"Nara Chandrababu Naidu" fontsize:10
from: 14/05/2004 till: 02/09/2009 color:inc text:"Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 03/09/2009 till: 24/11/2010 color:inc text:"Konijeti Rosaiah" fontsize:10
from: 25/11/2010 till: 01/03/2014 color:inc text:"Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 01/03/2014 till: 07/06/2014 color:vacant text:"Vacant (President's rule)" fontsize:10
from: 08/06/2014 till: 29/05/2019 color:tdp text:"Nara Chandrababu Naidu" fontsize:10
from: 30/05/2019 till: 11/06/2024 color:ysrcp text:"Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy" fontsize:10
from: 12/06/2024 till: end color:tdp text:"Nara Chandrababu Naidu" fontsize:10

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Oath as the state chief minister

The chief minister serves five years in the office. The following is the oath of the chief minister of state: Template:Blockquote

See also

Notes

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References

  1. ↑ Introduction to the Constitution of India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa(1960). ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9
  2. ↑ Leader of the House. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
  3. ↑ Nehru couldn't ignore Potti Sriramulu who gave India Andhra Pradesh by fasting till death, Roy, Pranay Dutta. ThePrint(16 March 2022). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  4. ↑ Indian Express October 2, 1953. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  5. ↑ HT This Day: March 26, 1953 -- Andhra state from Oct 1. Hindustan Times(25 March 2023). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  6. ↑ Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council History. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  7. ↑ Seventh Amendment, 1956. Government of India. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  8. ↑ Andhra Pradesh Formation Day 2023: AP History, Wishes, Quotes, and Must-try Foods. News18(1 November 2023). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  9. ↑ Template:Cite report
  10. ↑ Telangana Assembly Elections 2023: Why Telangana Split From Andhra Pradesh | Explained. TimesNow(2 December 2023). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  11. ↑ Delimitation of parliamentary and assembly constituencies order, 2008. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  12. ↑ Overview. AP Legislature. Government of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  13. ↑ Territorial powers of the Indian President: Article 356. India Today(15 April 2015).

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