List of chief ministers of Jharkhand
| Chief Minister of Jharkhand | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Style | The Honourable (Formal) Mr. Chief Minister (Informal) |
| Status | Head of Government |
| Abbreviation | CM |
| Member of | Jharkhand Legislative Assembly |
| Reports to | Governor of Jharkhand |
| Appointer | Governor of Jharkhand |
| Term length | At the confidence of the assembly Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1] |
| Inaugural holder | Babulal Marandi |
| Formation | 15 November 2000 |
The Chief Minister of Jharkhand is the chief executive of the Indian state of Jharkhand. 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 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.[1]
Six people have served as the state's chief minister since Jharkhand's formation on 15 November 2000.[2] Half of them, including the inaugural officeholder Babulal Marandi, represented the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). His successor Arjun Munda, also from the BJP, is the longest-serving chief minister; he served for over five years, across three terms but never completed a full term. Two chief ministers, Shibu Soren and his son Hemant Soren, represented the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). Shibu Soren's first term ended in just ten days, as he could not prove that he had the support of a majority of the house and was forced to resign. The state has also been governed by Madhu Koda, one of the few independents to become the chief minister of any state.[3] In between their reigns, the state has also been under President's rule three times. Raghubar Das, of the BJP, was the first chief minister to complete a full term in the state. Hemant Soren of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is the incumbent chief minister.
Chief ministers of Jharkhand[]
| Colour key for parties |
|---|
| No.[a] | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term | Assembly (election) |
Party[b] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
Babulal Marandi | Ramgarh | 15 November 2000 | 18 March 2003 | 2 years, 123 days | 1st/Interim Assembly[c] (2000 election) |
Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2 | 
|
Arjun Munda | Kharsawan | 18 March 2003 | 2 March 2005 | 1 year, 349 days | |||
| 3 | 
|
Shibu Soren | Did not contest | 2 March 2005 | 12 March 2005 | 10 days | 2nd
Assembly |
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | |
| (2) |
|
Arjun Munda | Kharsawan | 12 March 2005 | 19 September 2006 | 1 year, 191 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 4 | 
|
Madhu Koda | Jaganathpur | 19 September 2006 | 27 August 2008 | 1 year, 343 days | Independent | ||
| (3) |
|
Shibu Soren | Did not contest[4] | 27 August 2008 | 19 January 2009 | 145 days | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | ||
| – | 
|
Vacant[d] (President's rule) |
N/A | 19 January 2009 | 30 December 2009 | 345 days | N/A | ||
| (3) |
|
Shibu Soren | Jamtara | 30 December 2009 | 1 June 2010 | 153 days | 3rd
Assembly |
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | |
| – |
|
Vacant[d] (President's rule) |
N/A | 1 June 2010 | 11 September 2010 | 102 days | N/A | ||
| (2) |
|
Arjun Munda | Kharsawan | 11 September 2010 | 18 January 2013 | 2 years, 129 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| – |
|
Vacant[d] (President's rule) |
N/A | 18 January 2013 | 13 July 2013 | 176 days | N/A | ||
| 5 | 
|
Hemant Soren | Dumka | 13 July 2013 | 28 December 2014 | 1 year, 168 days | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | ||
| 6 | 
|
Raghubar Das | Jamshedpur East | 28 December 2014 | 29 December 2019 | 5 years, 1 day | 4th
Assembly |
Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| (5) |
|
Hemant Soren | Barhait | 29 December 2019 | Incumbent | 2 years, 37 days | 5h
Assembly |
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | |
Timeline[]
Notes[]
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- ^ A number in parentheses indicates that the incumbent has previously held office.
- ^ This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he headed may have been a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
- ^ The first Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand was constituted by the MLAs elected in the 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, whose constituencies were in the newly formed Jharkhand.[2]
- ^ a b c President's rule may be imposed when the "government in a state is not able to function as per the Constitution", which often happens because no party or coalition has a majority in the assembly. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant, and the administration is taken over by the governor, who functions on behalf of the central government. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.[5]
References[]
- ^ a b Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Jharkhand as well.
- ^ a b Chaudhuri, Kalyan (1 September 2000). "Jharkhand, at last". Frontline. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
- ^ Ramanujam, P.V. (14 September 2006). "Madhu Koda to be next Jharkhand CM". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ Shibu Soren lost the Tamar assembly by-election to Gopal Krishna Patar of the Jharkhand Party.
- ^ Diwanji, Amberish K. (15 March 2005). "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 19 May 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
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