Current Chief Ministers of India 2024, State Wise [Current Affairs]

The Indian Constitution, through Article 164, outlines the process of appointing Chief Ministers for states and Union Territories (UTs). The Governor, serving as the appointing authority, is entrusted with the responsibility of selecting the Chief Minister. Additionally, Article 167 defines the Chief Minister’s pivotal role as a bridge between the Governor and the state council of ministers.

Current Chief Ministers of India

Current Chief Ministers of India, each state and union territory has a chief minister, who serves as the head of government. Though appointed by the governor, the chief minister must maintain the confidence of the majority in the state legislative assembly. The governor, appointed by the President of India, acts as the constitutional head of the state/territory and wields powers like dissolving the legislative assembly and appointing the chief minister. Here’s a concise list of India’s current state/territory heads in 2023: Chief Minister and Governor.

States	Chief Minister	Governor
Andhra Pradesh	Chandrababu Naidu	S. Abdul Nazeer
Arunachal Pradesh	Pema Khandu	Lt. General Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik
Assam	Himanta Biswa Sarma	Lakshman Prasad Acharya
Bihar	Nitish Kumar	Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
Chhattisgarh	Vishnu Deo Sai	Ramen Deka
Goa	Pramod Sawant	P.S. Sgreedharan
Gujarat	Bhupendra Patel	Acharaya Devvrat
Haryana	Nayab Singh Saini	Bandaru Dattatraya
Himachal Pradesh	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu	Shiv Pratap Shukla
Jharkhand	Champai Soren	Santosh Kumar Gangwar
Karnataka	Siddaramaiah	Thawar Chand Gehlot
Kerala	Pinarayi Vijayan	Arif Mohammed Khan
Madhya Pradesh	Mohan Yadav	Mangubhai Chaganbhai Patel
Maharashtra	Eknath Shinde	C P Radhakrishnan
Manipur	N. Biren Singh	Lakshman Prasad Acharya
Meghalaya	Conrad Kongkal Sangma	C H Vijayashankar
Mizoram	PU Lalduhoma	Dr. Kambhampati Haribabu
Nagaland	Neiphiu Rio	Shri La. Ganesan
Odisha	Mohan Charan Majhi	Raghubar Das
Punjab	Bhagwant Singh Mann	Gulab Chand Kataria
Rajasthan	Bhajan Lal Sharma	Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde
Sikkim	PS Golay	Om Prakash Mathur
Tamil Nadu	M.K Stalin	R.N. Ravi
Telangana	Anumula Revanth Reddy	Jishnu Dev Varma
Tripura	Dr. Manik Saha	Indra Sena Reddy Nallu
Uttar Pradesh	Yogi Adityanath	Anandiben Patel
Uttarakhand	Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami	Gurmit Singh
West Bengal	Mamata Banerjee	Dr CV Ananda Bose

Union Territory States-wise Governors of India List

Union Territory	Governor	Capital
Andaman & Nicobar	Shri. Devendra Kumar Joshi (Lieutenant Governor)	Port Blair
Chandigarh	Shri Banwarilal Purohit (Administrator)	Chandigarh
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	Shri Praful Patel (Administrator)	Daman
Delhi	Vinal Kumar Saxena (Lieutenant Governor)	New Delhi
Jammu and Kashmir	Shri Manoj Sinha (Lieutenant Governor)	Srinagar
Lakshadweep	Shri Praful Patel (Administrator)	Kavaratti
Puducherry	K Kailashnathan	Puducherry
Ladakh	Brig (Dr) B D Mishra (Retd)	Leh

Governor of India Selection and Powers

The governor in India is appointed by the president. The central government is responsible for the nomination of the government for each state. There is no indirect or direct election for the appointment of governor unlike the elections for president. The office of a governor is an independent constitutional office the governor doesn’t serve the union government.

The governor only needs to meet two qualifications one he should be an Indian citizen and the other he should be 35 years old or more. There are two conventions that the government follows to nominate a governor that is the person who is going to be appointed as the governor must not belong to the state, he shall be an outsider with having no relations with the state.

The other one is the consultation of the chief minister is taken before the appointment of a governor by the president. He is the executive head of the state he is appointed to. All the executive actions that are performed in the state are in the name of the governor.

Chief Minister of India Selection and Powers

There is no specific procedure for the selection and appointment of the chief minister of a state as per the constitution of India. According to article 164, the Government of a state appoints the chief minister. There are a few qualifications that a person needs to become a chief minister of India. The person must be a citizen of India, he must have completed 25 years of age, and must be a member of any house either the legislative assembly or the legislative council.

A citizen of India who is not a member of the legislative assembly or legislative council has to get himself elected within 6 months from the date of their appointment, if the person fails the procedure, he would not be considered the chief minister.

The powers given to the chief minister are that he can allocate and reshuffle the portfolios among ministers, if the chief minister resigns the full cabinet has to resign with him, guides controls and direct activities of all the ministers, if there is any difference of opinion, he can ask the minister to resign, he advises the government to appoint any person as a minister.

Constitutional Articles Related to Chief Minister of India

Article 163: The governor is advised by the Chief Mister, head of council of ministers.
Article 164: The Constitution appoints the Chief Minister by the governor.
Article 167: The Constitution, the Chief Minister acts as a link between the Governor and state council of ministers.