List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party

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] Established in 1980, the BJP's platform is generally considered as the right wing of the political spectrum.^[4] As of 18 April 2026^[update], 57 BJP leaders have held the position of a chief minister out of which sixteen are incumbent.

A chief minister is the head of government of each of the twenty-eight states and two union territories (UTs) (Delhi and Puducherry). 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. Following elections to the state 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. The chief minister's term is usually for a maximum of five years, with the confidence of the assembly's confidence. There are no limits to the number of terms the chief minister can serve.^[5]

Of the 57 BJP chief ministers, sixteen are incumbent – Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh, Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam, Samrat Choudhary in Bihar, Vishnu Deo Sai in Chhattisgarh, Rekha Gupta in Delhi, Pramod Sawant in Goa, Bhupendrabhai Patel in Gujarat, Nayab Singh Saini in Haryana, Mohan Yadav in Madhya Pradesh, Devendra Fadnavis in Maharashtra, Yumnam Khemchand Singh in Manipur, Mohan Charan Majhi in Odisha, Bhajan Lal Sharma in Rajasthan, Manik Saha in Tripura, Pushkar Singh Dhami in Uttarakhand, and Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh. Five of the BJP chief ministers have been women – Sushma Swaraj in Delhi, Uma Bharti in Madhya Pradesh, Anandiben Patel in Gujarat and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Shivraj Singh Chauhan, as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh for longer than 15 years is the longest-serving chief minister from the BJP. Devendra Fadnavis's second tenure as the chief minister of Maharashtra lasted for only three days, which is the least tenure among chief ministers from BJP; however, taking the total of all the tenures into consideration, Sushma Swaraj served as a chief minister of Delhi for the shortest period of 52 days. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat of Rajasthan was the first chief minister from the BJP; however some BJP leaders had already been elected before as the chief minister while being a member of the Janata Party (JP), an amalgam of political parties which included BJP's predecessor Bharatiya Jana Sangh.^[6] There have been seven chief ministers in Uttarakhand from the BJP, six chief ministers in Gujarat, five chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh, four chief ministers in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh and Delhi^[7] each, and three in Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand each. The party is likely to announce its first chief minister in West Bengal between 7 and 9 May 2026.^[8].It has never had chief ministers in Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana.