First Chief Ministers of Indian States:
Who is the Chief Minister?
Each of the 29 states and 2 union territories (Delhi and Puducherry) of India is headed by a chief minister. According to the Constitution of India, the Governor is the legal head at the state level but in reality the executive authority is the Chief Minister. Here is a list of the first Chief Ministers of Indian states. Generally questions related to this list are asked in competitive exams.
If you are preparing for various competitive exams like: IAS, Teacher, UPSC, PCS, SSC, Bank, MBA and other government jobs, then you must know about the first Chief Ministers of all the states of India.
List of First Chief Ministers of all Indian States:
| Indian state | Name of chief minister | Party/political party |
| First Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh | Prem Khandu Thungan | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Assam | Gopinath Bardaloi | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh | Neelam Sanjiv Reddy | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh | Govind Vallabh Pant | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Uttarakhand | Nityananda Swami | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| First Chief Minister of Odisha | Harekrishna Mahatab | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Karnataka | K. C. Reddy | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Kerala | E. M. S. Namboodiripat | Communist Party of India |
| First Chief Minister of Gujarat | Dr. Jivraj Narayan Mehta | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Goa | Dayanand Bandodkar | Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) |
| First Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh | Ajit jogi | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir | Ghulam Mohammad Saddiq | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Jharkhand | Babulal Marandi | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |
| First Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu | PS Kumaraswamy Raja | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Telangana | Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao | Telangana Rashtra Samithi |
| First Chief Minister of Tripura | Sachindra Lal Singh | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Delhi | Chaudhary Brahm Prakash | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Nagaland | P. Shilu Ao | Naga Nationalist Organization |
| First Chief Minister of Punjab | Dr. Gopichand Bhargava | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of West Bengal | Prafulla Chandra Ghosh | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Bihar | Shri Krishna Sinha | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Manipur | M. Koirang Singh | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh | Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Maharashtra | Yashwant Rao Chavan | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Meghalaya | Williamson A Sangma | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Rajasthan | Hiralal Shastri | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Sikkim | Kazi Lendup Dorji Khangsarpa | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Haryana | Bhagwat Dayal Sharma | Indian National Congress |
| First Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh | Yashwant Singh Parmar | Indian National Congress |
Important facts related to the Chief Ministers of India:
- Gopinath Bordoloi was the Prime Minister of Assam from August 1947 to February 1946.
- Shri Krishna Sinha was the Chief Minister of Bihar even before independence.
- The post of Chief Minister of Delhi was abolished in 1956. The post was re-established in 1993 (by the 69th Amendment Act, 1991) when Madan Lal Khurana became the Chief Minister.
- Before 1965, Jammu and Kashmir used to have a Prime Minister and Meher Chand Mahajan was the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948.
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