The chief minister of Chhattisgarh is the chief executive of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. 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 the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[2]
| Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh | |
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| Government of Chhattisgarh | |
| Style | The Honourable (Formal) Mr./Mrs. Chief Minister (Informal) |
| Type | Head of Government |
| Status | Leader of the Executive |
| Abbreviation | CM |
| Member of | |
| Reports to | |
| Residence | B-3, C.M. House, Civil Lines, Raipur[1] |
| Seat | Mahanadi Bhawan, Naya Raipur |
| Nominator | Members of the Government of Chhattisgarh in Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly |
| Appointer | Governor of Chhattisgarh by convention based on appointees ability to command confidence in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly |
| Term length | At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[2] |
| Inaugural holder | Ajit Jogi |
| Formation | 1 November 2000 |
| Deputy | Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh |
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| Website | Official website |
Four people have served as the state's chief minister since Chhattisgarh's formation on 1 November 2000 as a result of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000.[3] The first was Ajit Jogi of the Indian National Congress. He was succeeded in 2003 by Raman Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who served three consecutive five-year terms. The third person to serve in the office was Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel ,who served from 2018 to 2023. He was succeeded by Vishnu Deo Sai of the BJP, the current incumbent.
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editThe States Reorganisation Act, 1956 merged the states of Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, and Bhopal were merged into Madhya Pradesh and the Marathi-speaking southern region Vidarbha, which included Nagpur, was ceded to Bombay. In November 2000, as part of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act the southeastern portion of the state was split off to form the new state of Chhattisgarh.
| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Tenure | Assembly (election) |
Party[a] | |||
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Ajit Jogi | Marwahi | 1 November 2000 | 7 December 2003 | 3 years, 34 days | 1st/Interim[b] (1998 election) |
Indian National Congress | |
| 2 | 
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Raman Singh | Dongargaon | 7 December 2003 | 11 December 2008 | 15 years, 10 days | 2nd (2003 election) |
Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Rajnandgaon | 12 December 2008 | 11 December 2013 | 3rd (2008 election) | ||||||
| 12 December 2013 | 17 December 2018 | 4th (2013 election) | |||||||
| 3 | 
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Bhupesh Baghel | Patan | 17 December 2018 | 13 December 2023 | 4 years, 361 days | 5th (2018 election) |
Indian National Congress | |
| 4 |
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Vishnu Deo Sai | Kunkuri | 13 December 2023 | Incumbent | 337 days | 6th (2023 election) |
Bharatiya Janata Party | |
Time Period
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Notes
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- ^ This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
- ^ The first Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh was constituted by the MLAs elected in the 1998 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, whose constituencies were in the newly formed Chhattisgarh.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Cabinet". Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. Archived from the original on 9 July 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ^ a b Durga Das Basu (1960). Introduction to the Constitution of India. Nagpur: LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa. pp. 241, 245. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9.
- ^ Venkatesan, V. (1 September 2000). "Chhattisgarh: quite arrival". Frontline. Vol. 17, no. 17. Raipur. Archived from the original on 3 August 2019.
- ^ "The Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2000" (PDF). 2000. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2019.