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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: 9 June 1980 24 December 1987 44 Nripen Chakraborty: Tripura: 5 January 1978 5 February 1988 10 years, 31 days Communist Party of India (Marxist) 45 Vasundhara Raje: Rajasthan: 8 December 2003 12 December 2008 10 years, 8 days Bharatiya Janata Party: 13 December 2013 17 December 2018 46 Digvijaya Singh ...
In the Republic of India, a chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight states and three of the eight union territories. According to the Constitution of India , at the state level, the governor is de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister.
Pawan Kumar Chamling Rai (born 22 September 1950 [1]) is an Indian politician and writer who served as the 5th Chief Minister of Sikkim from 1994 to 2019. He is the longest serving Chief Minister in India, surpassing Naveen Patnaik [2] [3] Chamling is the Founding President of the Sikkim Democratic Front.
In India, a chief minister is the elected head of government of each state out of the 28 [1] states and sometimes a union territory (UT). Currently, only the UTs of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry have serving chief ministers.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the two major parties in the political system of the Republic of India, the other being the Indian National Congress (INC). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of 2015 [update] , it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the national parliament . [ 3 ]
In the post-independence era, the party has governed most of India's states and union territories, and by extension, has the status of a "national party" in India. [4] According to the Constitution of India, at the state level, the governor is de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. [5]
Political parties by total time-span of their member holding CMO (6 March 2025) No. Political party Number of chief ministers Total days of holding CMO 1 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: 5 (+1 acting) 11004 days 2 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: 3 (+1 acting) 9039 days: 3 Indian National Congress: 4 6247 days
As per 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 Haryana Legislative Assembly , the state's governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government .