The Chief Minister is the chief executive of the Indian state. In accordance with the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the legislative assembly, the state's 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 she has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]
Since 1963 India has had 16 female chief ministers, A majority of them belonged to the Indian National Congress party. The first female to become chief minister was Sucheta Kripalani of the Indian National Congress party, who sworn in on 2 October 1963 as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. The longest-serving female chief minister was Sheila Dikshit, who served as the chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi from Indian National Congress held the office for over fifteen years. J. Jayalalithaa, who served as chief minister of Tamil Nadu from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has the second-longest tenure, she held the office until her death in 2016 and became the first female chief minister to die in the office, While V. N. Janaki Ramachandran of the same state and party has the shortest tenure (only 23 days). In India, out of 28 states and 8 union territories only 12 states and 1 union territory had a female chief ministers. Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal is the only incumbent female chief minister in India.
Chronological list
- Key
- Template:Legend inline Incumbent Chief Minister
- Template:Note label Assassinated or died in office
- Template:Note label Resigned
- Template:Note label Resigned following a no-confidence motion
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| No. | Portrait | Name
(Birth–Death) |
State/Union territory | Political partyTemplate:Efn | Term of office | Time in Office
(Days) | |||||
| Assumed Office | Left Office | ||||||||||
| 1 | 
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Sucheta Kripalani (1908–1974) |
rowspan = "3" style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Uttar Pradesh | Indian National Congress | 2 October 1963 | 13 March 1967 | Template:Age in days | |||
| 2 | 
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Nandini Satpathy (1931–2006) |
Odisha | Indian National Congress | 14 June 1972 | 3 March 1973 | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". | ||||
| 6 March 1974 | 16 December 1976Template:Ref label | ||||||||||
| 3 | Shashikala Kakodkar (1935–2016) |
style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Goa | Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party | 12 August 1973 | 27 April 1979 | Template:Age in days | ||||
| 4 |
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Anwara Taimur (1936–2020) |
style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Assam | Indian National Congress | 6 December 1980 | 30 June 1981 | Template:Age in days | |||
| 5 | 
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V. N. Janaki Ramachandran (1924–1996) |
rowspan = "6" style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Tamil Nadu | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 7 January 1988 | 30 January 1988 | Template:Age in days | |||
| 6 | 
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J. Jayalalithaa (1948–2016) |
Tamil Nadu | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 24 June 1991 | 12 May 1996 | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". | ||||
| 14 May 2001 | 21 September 2001Template:Ref label | ||||||||||
| 2 March 2002 | 12 May 2006 | ||||||||||
| 16 May 2011 | 27 September 2014 | ||||||||||
| 23 May 2015 | 5 December 2016Template:Ref label | ||||||||||
| 7 | 
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Mayawati (1956–) |
rowspan = "4" style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Uttar Pradesh | Bahujan Samaj Party | 13 June 1995 | 18 October 1995 | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". | |||
| 21 March 1997 | 21 September 1997Template:Ref label | ||||||||||
| 3 May 2002 | 29 August 2003Template:Ref label | ||||||||||
| 13 May 2007 | 15 March 2012 | ||||||||||
| 8 | 
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Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (1945–) |
style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Punjab | Indian National Congress | 21 November 1996 | 12 February 1997 | Template:Age in days | |||
| 9 | 
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Rabri Devi (1959–) |
rowspan = "3" style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Bihar | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 25 July 1997 | 11 February 1999 | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". | |||
| 9 March 1999 | 2 March 2000Template:Ref label | ||||||||||
| 11 March 2000 | 6 March 2005 | ||||||||||
| 10 | 
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Sushma Swaraj (1953–2019) |
style="background:Template:Party color;" | | National Capital Territory of Delhi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 12 October 1998 | 3 December 1998 | Template:Age in days | |||
| 11 | 
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Sheila Dikshit (1938–2019) |
style="background:Template:Party color;" | | National Capital Territory of Delhi | Indian National Congress | 3 December 1998 | 28 December 2013 | Template:Age in days | |||
| 12 | 
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Uma Bharti (1959–) |
rowspan = "3" style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Madhya Pradesh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 8 December 2003 | 23 August 2004Template:Ref label | Template:Age in days | |||
| 13 | 
|
Vasundhara Raje (1953–) |
Rajasthan | Bharatiya Janata Party | 8 December 2003 | 11 December 2008 | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". | ||||
| 8 December 2013 | 16 December 2018 | ||||||||||
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Mamata Banerjee* (1955–) |
style="background:#DBD7D2;" style="background:Template:Party color;" | | West Bengal | All India Trinamool Congress | 20 May 2011 | Incumbent | Template:Age in days | |||
| 15 | File:Anandiben Patel Ji.jpg | Anandiben Patel (1941–) |
style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Gujarat | Bharatiya Janata Party | 22 May 2014 | 7 August 2016Template:Ref label | Template:Age in days | |||
| 16 | 
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Mehbooba Mufti (1959–) |
style="background:Template:Party color;" | | Jammu and Kashmir | Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party | 4 April 2016 | 20 June 2018 | Template:Age in days | |||
See also
- List of female Indian governors and lieutenant governors
- List of female judges of the Supreme Court of India
- List of current Indian chief ministers
- List of current Indian deputy chief ministers
- List of longest-serving Indian chief ministers
- List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party
- List of chief ministers from the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- List of chief ministers from the Indian National Congress
Notes
References
- ↑ Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. Template:ISBN