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