List of chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh explained

The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh is the chief executive of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. 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 Madhya Pradesh 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]

Following Madhya Pradesh's reorganisation on 1 November 1999, 19 people have served as its chief minister. Twelve of these belonged to the Indian National Congress, including the inaugural officeholder Ravishankar Shukla. The first non-Congress chief minister was Govind Narayan Singh who defected from the party and lead a Samyukta Vidhayak Dal government from 1967 to 1969. Digvijaya Singh of the Congress became the first officeholder to serve two full five-year terms. He was succeeded by Uma Bharti of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh's only woman chief minister. Shivraj Singh Chouhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party was the longest-serving chief minister of the state, serving for over 16 and half years. Chouhan was succeeded by Dr. Mohan Yadav of his own party after the 2023 elections, which was seen as a landslide victory^[3] for the BJP.

Precursor states

Vindhya Pradesh (1948-1956)

In 1948, the eastern regions of Central India Agency, became the Union of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand States, and were later renamed to Vindhya Pradesh, in 1952. It was admitted into the union as a "Part B" state.

	Name	Tenure			Assembly	Appointed by	Party
1	Awadhesh Pratap Singh	28 May 1948	15 April 1949		Not yet created	Rameshwar Prasad Singh	Independent
2	S. N. Mehta	15 April 1949	31 March 1952			Martand Singh	Indian National Congress
3	Sambhu Nath Shukla	31 March 1952	31 October 1956		1st(1952 elections)

Madhya Bharat (1948-1956)

In 1948, the western regions of Central India Agency and the Gwalior and Indore residencies, became the new state of Madhya Bharat. It was admitted into the union as a "Part B" state.

	Portrait	Name	Tenure			Assembly	Appointed by	Party
1		Liladhar Joshi	28 May 1948	May 1949		Not yet created	Jivaji Rao Scindia	Indian National Congress
2		Gopikrishna Vijayavargiya	May 1949	18 October 1950
3		Takhatmal Jain	18 October 1950	31 March 1952
4		Mishrilal Gangwal	31 March 1952	16 April 1955		1st(1952 elections)
(3)		Takhatmal Jain	16 April 1955	31 October 1956

Bhopal State (1949-1956)

On 30 April 1949, Sir Hamidullah Khan, the Nawab of Bhopal signed an Instrument of Accession to the Dominion of India. The state of Bhopal was taken over by the Union Government on 1 June 1949, and was declared a "Part C" state.

List of Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh

After the independence of India, the state of Madhya Pradesh was created in 1950 from the Central Provinces and Berar and the princely state of Makrai with Nagpur as the capital of the state.

The 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.

	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure[6] [7]			[Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Assembly {{small|([[Elections in Madhya Pradesh|election]])}}! colspan="2" |Party|-| rowspan="3" |1| rowspan="3" || rowspan="3" |Ravishankar Shukla[8] |N/A|26 January 1950|30 March 1952| rowspan="3" ||Not yet created| rowspan="9" |Indian National Congress| rowspan="9" style="background-color: " ||-| rowspan="2" |Saraipali|31 March 1952|31 October 1956| rowspan="4" |1st[9] |-|1 November 1956|31 December 1956|-| 2|align=center||Bhagwantrao Mandloi|Khandwa|9 January 1957|31 January 1957||-| rowspan="2" scope="rowgroup" |3| rowspan="2" || rowspan="2" |Kailash Nath Katju| rowspan="2" |Jaora| style="height: 45px;" |31 January 1957|14 March 1957| rowspan="2" ||-| style="height: 45px;" |14 March 1957|12 March 1962|2nd|-| (2)|align=center||Bhagwantrao Mandloi|Khandwa|12 March 1962|30 September 1963|| rowspan="2" |3rd|-| rowspan="2" scope="rowgroup" |4| rowspan="2" || rowspan="2" |Dwarka Prasad Mishra| rowspan="2" |Katangi| style="height: 45px;" |30 September 1963|8 March 1967| rowspan="2" ||-| style="height: 45px;" |8 March 1967|30 July 1967| rowspan="5" |4th|-| 5|align=center||Govind Narayan Singh|Rampur-Baghelan|30 July 1967|13 March 1969|| rowspan="2" |Samyukta Vidhayak Dal| rowspan="2" style="background-color: green" ||-| 6|align=center||Nareshchandra Singh|Pussore|13 March 1969|26 March 1969||-| 7||Shyama Charan Shukla|Rajim|26 March 1969|29 January 1972|| rowspan="4" |Indian National Congress| rowspan="4" style="background-color: " ||-| rowspan="2" scope="rowgroup" |8| rowspan="2" align=center|| rowspan="2" |Prakash Chandra Sethi| rowspan="2" |Ujjain North| style="height: 45px;" |29 January 1972|22 March 1972| rowspan="2" ||-| style="height: 45px;" |23 March 1972|23 December 1975| rowspan="2" |5th|-| (7)||Shyama Charan Shukla|Rajim|23 December 1975|30 April 1977||-| –||Vacant(President's rule)|N/A|30 April 1977|23 June 1977||Dissolved| colspan="2" |N/A|-| 9||Kailash Chandra Joshi|Bagli|24 June 1977|18 January 1978|| rowspan="3" |6th| rowspan="3" |Janata Party| rowspan="3" style="background-color: " ||-| 10|align=center||Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha|Jawad|18 January 1978|20 January 1980||-| 11||Sunderlal Patwa|Mandsaur|20 January 1980|17 February 1980||-| –||Vacant(President's rule)|N/A|17 February 1980|9 June 1980||Dissolved| colspan="2" |N/A|-| rowspan="2" |12| rowspan="2" || rowspan="2" |Arjun Singh| rowspan="2" |Churhat| style="height: 45px;" |9 June 1980|10 March 1985| rowspan="2" ||7th| rowspan="6" |Indian National Congress| rowspan="6" style="background-color: " ||-| style="height: 45px;" |11 March 1985|13 March 1985| rowspan="5" |8th|-| 13||Motilal Vora|Durg|13 March 1985|14 February 1988||-| (12)||Arjun Singh|Kharsia|14 February 1988|25 January 1989||-| (13)||Motilal Vora|Durg|25 January 1989|9 December 1989||-| (7)||Shyama Charan Shukla||9 December 1989|5 March 1990||-| (11)|align=center||Sunderlal Patwa|Bhojpur|5 March 1990|15 December 1992||9th|Bharatiya Janata Party|style="background-color: " ||-| –||Vacant(President's rule)|N/A|15 December 1992|6 December 1993||Dissolved| colspan="2" |N/A|-| rowspan="2" |14| rowspan="2" || rowspan="2" |Digvijaya Singh|Chachoura|7 December 1993|1 December 1998| rowspan="2" ||10th| rowspan="2" |Indian National Congress|rowspan="2" style="background-color: " ||-|Raghogarh|1 December 1998|8 December 2003|11th|-| 15||Uma Bharti|Malhara|8 December 2003|23 August 2004|| rowspan="3" |12th| rowspan="5" |Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan="5" style="background-color: " ||-| 16||Babulal Gaur|Govindpura|23 August 2004|29 November 2005||-| rowspan="3" |17| rowspan="3" || rowspan="3" |Shivraj Singh Chouhan| rowspan="3" |Budhni|29 November 2005|12 December 2008| rowspan="3" ||-|12 December 2008|13 December 2013|13th|-|14 December 2013|17 December 2018|14th|-| 18||Kamal Nath|Chhindwara|17 December 2018|23 March 2020|| rowspan="2" |15th|Indian National Congress|style="background-color:" ||-| (17)||Shivraj Singh Chouhan|Budhni|23 March 2020|13 December 2023|| rowspan="2" |Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=2 style="background-color: " ||-| 19||Mohan Yadav|Ujjain South|13 December 2023|Incumbent||16th|-|} Statistics List by chief minister data-sort-type=number rowspan = "2" Chief Minister Party Term of office Longest continuous term Total duration of chief ministership data-sort-value="1" 1 Shivraj Singh Chouhan 13 years, 17 days 16 years, 282 days data-sort-value="2" 2 Ravishankar Shukla 6 years, 340 days 6 years, 340 days data-sort-value="3" 3 Arjun Singh 4 years, 277 days 5 years, 258 days data-sort-value="4" 4 Kailash Nath Katju 5 years, 40 days 5 years, 40 days data-sort-value="5" 5 Shyama Charan Shukla 2 years, 309 days 4 years, 158 days data-sort-value="6" 6 Prakash Chandra Sethi 3 years, 328 days 3 years, 328 days data-sort-value="7" 7 Dwarka Prasad Mishra 3 years, 303 days 3 years, 303 days data-sort-value="8" 8 Sunderlal Patwa /BJP 2 years, 285 days 2 years, 313 days data-sort-value="9" 9 Motilal Vora 2 years, 338 days 3 years, 291 days data-sort-value="10" 10 Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha 2 years, 2 days 2 years, 2 days data-sort-value="11" 11 Govind Narayan Singh SVD 1 year, 226 days 1 year, 226 days data-sort-value="12" 12 Bhagwantrao Mandloi 1 year, 202 days 1 year, 224 days data-sort-value="13" 13 Babulal Gaur 1 year, 98 days 1 year, 98 days data-sort-value="14" 14 Kamal Nath 1 year, 97 days 1 year, 97 days data-sort-value="15" 15 Mohan Yadav data-sort-value="16" 16 Uma Bharti 259 days 259 days data-sort-value="17" 17 Kailash Chandra Joshi 208 days 208 days data-sort-value="18" 18 Nareshchandra Singh SVD 13 days 13 days External links Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh

Notes and References

1. [Durga Das Basu]
2. [Durga Das Basu]
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8. Web site: V Ramu Sarma . 29 August 2021 . Life and legacy of Madhya Pradesh's first leaders . 19 October 2021.
9. Web site: Statistical Report on General Election, 1951 : To the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh . 2014-10-14 . Election Commission of India.