List of chief ministers of Bihar

Chief Minister of Bihar
Emblem of Bihar
Incumbent Nitish Kumar since 23rd November 2020
Status	Head of Government
Abbreviation	CM
Member of	Bihar Legislative Assembly
Reports to	Governor of Bihar
Residence	1, Aney Marg, Patna
Seat	Patna
Appointer	Governor of Bihar
Term length	At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]
Precursor	Premier of Bihar
Inaugural holder	Shri Krishna Sinha
Formation	26 January 1950 (71 years ago) (1950-01-26)
Deputy	Tarkishore Prasad Renu Devi
Website	CM website

The Chief Minister of Bihar' is the chief executive of the Indian state of Bihar. As per the Constitution of India, the Governor of Bihar is the state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Bihar 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. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.^[1]

From 1946, 23 people have been Chief Minister of Bihar. The inaugural holder was Sri Krishna Sinha of the Indian National Congress, he also has the longest incumbency. The current incumbent is Nitish Kumar who is having incumbency since 22 February 2015.

Premiers of Bihar[]

The province of Bihar headquartered in Patna then comprised the present day states Bihar and Jharkhand. On 1 April 1936, Bihar and Orissa became separate provinces by the partition of the province of Bihar and Orissa. Under the Government of India Act 1935, a bicameral legislature was set up with a legislative assembly and a legislative council with a government headed by the Premier.

List of premiers of Bihar

No.[a]	Name	Portrait	Term of office			Party
			From	To	Days in office
1	Mohammad Yunus		1 April 1937	19 July 1937	109 days	Muslim Independent Party
2	Shri Krishna Sinha		20 July 1937	31 October 1939	2 years, 104 days	Indian National Congress
Vacant
(2)	Shri Krishna Sinha		23 March 1946	25 January 1950	3 years, 308 days	Indian National Congress

Chief ministers of Bihar[]

List of chief ministers of Bihar

No.[a]	Name[2]	Portrait	Constituency	Term			Assembly (Election)	Party
				From	To	Days in office
1	Sri Krishna Sinha		Basantpur West	26 January 1950	31 January 1961	11 years, 5 days	1st Assembly (1952–57) (1952 election)	Indian National Congress
							2nd Assembly (1957–62) (1957 election)
2	Deep Narayan Singh		Hajipur	1 February 1961	18 February 1961	17 days
3	Binodanand Jha		Rajmahal	18 February 1961	2 October 1963	2 years, 226 days
							3rd Assembly (1962–67) (1962 election)
4	Krishna Ballabh Sahay		Patna West	2 October 1963	5 March 1967	3 years, 154 days
5	Mahamaya Prasad Sinha		Patna West	5 March 1967	28 January 1968	330 days	4th Assembly (1967–68) (1967 election)	Jana Kranti Dal
6	Satish Prasad Singh		Parbatta	28 January 1968	1 February 1968	5 days
7	Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal		MLC	1 February 1968	22 March 1968	51 days
8	Bhola Paswan Shastri		Korha	22 March 1968	29 June 1968	100 days		Indian National Congress
–	Vacant[b] (President's rule)		N/A	29 June 1968	26 February 1969		Dissolved	N/A
9	Harihar Singh		Nayagram	26 February 1969	22 June 1969	117 days	5th Assembly (1969–72) (1969 election)	Indian National Congress
(8)	Bhola Paswan Shastri		Korha	22 June 1969	4 July 1969	13 days		Indian National Congress (O)
–	Vacant[b] (President's rule)		N/A	6 July 1969	16 February 1970			N/A
10	Daroga Prasad Rai		Parsa	16 February. 1970	22 December 1970	310 days		Indian National Congress
11	Karpoori Thakur		Tajpur	22 December 1970	2 June 1971	163 days		Socialist Party
(8)	Bhola Paswan Shastri		Korha	2 June 1971	9 January 1972	222 days		Indian National Congress
–	Vacant[b] (President's rule)		N/A	9 January 1972	19 March 1972		Dissolved	N/A
12	Kedar Pandey		Nautan	19 March 1972	2 July 1973	1 year, 105 days	6th Assembly (1972–77) (1972 election)	Indian National Congress
13	Abdul Gafoor		MLC	2 July 1973	11 April 1975	1 year, 283 days
14	Jagannath Mishra		Jhanjharpur	11 April 1975	30 April 1977	2 years, 19 days
–	Vacant[b] (President's rule)		N/A	30 April 1977	24 June 1977		Dissolved	N/A
(11)	Karpoori Thakur		Phulparas	24 June 1977	21 April 1979	1 year, 301 days	7th Assembly (1977–80) (1977 election)	Janata Party
15	Ram Sundar Das		Sonepur	21 April 1979	17 February 1980	302 days
–	Vacant[b] (President's rule)		N/A	17 February 1980	8 June 1980			N/A
(14)	Jagannath Mishra		Jhanjharpur	8 June 1980	14 August 1983	3 years, 67 days	8th Assembly (1980–85) (1980 election)	Indian National Congress (I)
16	Chandrashekhar Singh			14 August 1983	12 March 1985	1 year, 210 days
17	Bindeshwari Dubey		Shahpur	12 March 1985	13 February 1988	2 years, 338 days	9th Assembly (1985–90) (1985 election)
18	Bhagwat Jha Azad		MLC	14 February 1988	10 March 1989	1 year, 24 days
19	Satyendra Narayan Sinha		MLC	11 March 1989	6 December 1989	270 days
(14)	Jagannath Mishra		Jhanjharpur	6 December 1989	10 March 1990	94 days
20	Lalu Prasad Yadav		MLC	10 March 1990	28 March 1995	5 years, 18 days	10th Assembly (1990–95) (1990 election)	Janata Dal
–	Vacant[b] President's rule		N/A	28 March 1995	4 April 1995		Dissolved	N/A
(20)	Lalu Prasad Yadav		Raghopur	4 April 1995	25 July 1997	2 years, 112 days	11th Assembly (1995–2000) (1995 election)	Janata Dal
								Rashtriya Janata Dal
21	Rabri Devi		MLC	25 July 1997	11 February 1999	1 year, 201 days
–	Vacant[b] President's rule		N/A	11 February 1999	9 March 1999			N/A
(21)	Rabri Devi		MLC	9 March 1999	2 March 2000	359 days		Rashtriya Janata Dal
22	Nitish Kumar [c]			3 March 2000	10 March 2000	7 days	12th Assembly (2000-05) (2000 election)	Samta Party
(21)	Rabri Devi		Raghopur	11 March 2000	6 March 2005	4 years, 360 days		Rashtriya Janata Dal[4]
–	Vacant[b] (President's rule)		N/A	7 March 2005	24 November 2005		13th Assembly (2005) (February 2005 election)	N/A
(22)	Nitish Kumar		MLC	24 November 2005	26 November 2010	8 years, 177 days	14th Assembly (2005–10) (October 2005 election)	Janata Dal (United)
				26 November 2010	20 May 2014		15th Assembly (2010–15) (2010 election)
23	Jitan Ram Manjhi		Makhdumpur	20 May 2014	22 February 2015	278 days
(22)	Nitish Kumar		MLC	22 February 2015	20 November 2015	6 years, 183 days
				20 November 2015	16 November 2020		16th Assembly (2015-20) (2015 election)
				16 November 2020	Incumbent		17th Assembly (2020-25) (2020 election)

Trivia[]

Trivia Chief Minister of Bihar

After Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav was convicted for his involvement in the fodder scam in 1997, he installed his wife Rabri Devi as Chief Minister instead. Together, they governed for nearly 15 years between 1990 and 2005.

Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar had served eight and a half years as Bihar's Chief Minister, before stepping down because of his party's poor showing in the 2014 general election.

1. In 1967, Mahamaya Prasad Sinha became the first non-Indian National Congress Chief minister but he was not able to complete his term.
2. Lalu Prasad Yadav was the first non-Indian National Congress Chief minister to complete his term (1990-995).
3. Lalu Prasad Yadav was the first and only sitting Chief minister to go to jail, he instate his wife Rabri Devi as Chief minister before going to jail.
4. Husband wife duo of Lalu Prasad Yadav-Rabri Devi remained CM for 14 years, 320 days and their younger son Tejashwi Yadav also became deputy chief Minister of Bihar.
5. Nitish Kumar had served eight and a half years as Bihar's CM, before stepping down because of his party's poor showing in the 2014 general election. He again became CM in 2015 (after a gap of 278 days).

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See also[]

• Bihar
• List of Governors of Bihar
• List of Deputy Chief Ministers of Bihar

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Notes[]

One of the achievements of the Bihar Government is that they have launched a Medhasoft Application for the students so that deserving students in the state get scholarships and the amount will be directly transferred to their account. However, in order to get this, school authorities have to upload all their student's details in the Medhasoft web portal.

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