List of chief ministers of Jharkhand

Chief Minister of Jharkhand
Chief Minister of Jharkhand
	Emblem of Jharkhand
	Incumbent; Hemant Soren; since 4 July 2024
	Government of Jharkhand
Style	The Honourable (Formal); Mr. Chief Minister (Informal)
Type	Head of Government
Status	Leader of the Executive
Abbreviation	CM
Member of	Cabinet; Jharkhand Legislative Assembly;
Reports to	Governor of Jharkhand; Jharkhand Legislative Assembly;
Residence	Jinx, Kanke Road, Ranchi
Seat	Chief Minister Secretariat (CMO), Ranchi, Jharkhand
Nominator	Members of the Government of Jharkhand in Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Appointer	Governor of Jharkhand by convention based on appointees ability to command confidence in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Term length	At the confidence of the assembly; Chief minister's term is for 5 years and is subject to no term limits.
Inaugural holder	Babulal Marandi
Formation	15 November 2000; (23 years ago)
Deputy	Deputy Chief Minister of Jharkhand
Salary	₹500,000 (US$6,000)/monthly; ₹6,600,000 (US$79,000)/annually;
Website	cm.jharkhand.gov.in

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]

Seven 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. Three chief ministers, Shibu Soren, his son Hemant Soren, and Champai 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 non-tribal and first chief minister to complete a full term in the state. Hemant Soren of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is the incumbent chief minister.

List


#	Chief Minister (Lifespan) Constituency	Term of office			Election (Term)	Party	Deputy Chief Minister(s) (Term in office)	Government	Appointed by (Governor)
1	Babulal Marandi (born 1958) MLA for Ramgarh	15 November 2000	18 March 2003	2 years, 123 days	2000 (1st)	Bharatiya Janata Party	Position vacant (15 Nov. 2000 – 19 Sep. 2006)	Marandi	Prabhat Kumar
2	Arjun Munda (born 1968) MLA for Kharsawan	18 March 2003	02 March 2005	1 year, 349 days	2000 (1st)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Munda I	M. Rama Jois
3	Shibu Soren (born 1944) Unelected	02 March 2005	12 March 2005	10 days	2005 (2nd)	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha		Shibu I	Syed Sibtey Razi
(2)	Arjun Munda (born 1968) MLA for Kharsawan	12 March 2005	18 September 2006	1 year, 190 days		Bharatiya Janata Party		Munda II
4	Madhu Koda (born 1971) MLA for Jaganathpur	18 September 2006	27 August 2008	1 year, 344 days		Independent	Sudhir Mahato (19 Sep. 2006 – 23 Aug. 2008)	Koda
(3)	Shibu Soren (born 1944) Unelected	27 August 2008	19 January 2009	145 days		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Stephen Marandi (27 Aug. 2008 – 19 Jan. 2009)	Shibu II
-	President's rule	19 January 2009	30 December 2009	345 days		N/A	N/A	Dissolved	Syed Sibtey Razi K. Sankaranarayanan
(3)	Shibu Soren (born 1944) Unelected	30 December 2009	1 June 2010	153 days	2009 (3rd)	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Raghubar Das (30 Dec. 2009 – 1 Jun. 2010) Sudesh Mahto (30 Dec. 2009 – 1 Jun. 2010)	Shibu III	K. Sankaranarayanan
-	President's rule	01 June 2010	11 September 2010	102 days		N/A	N/A	Dissolved	M. O. H. Farook
(2)	Arjun Munda (born 1968) MLA for Kharsawan	11 September 2010	18 January 2013	2 years, 129 days	2009 (3rd)	Bharatiya Janata Party	Sudesh Mahto (11 Sep. 2010 – 18 Jan. 2013) Hemant Soren (11 Sep. 2010 – 18 Jan. 2013)	Munda III	M. O. H. Farook
	President's rule	18 January 2013	13 July 2013	176 days		N/A	N/A	Dissolved	Syed Ahmed
5	Hemant Soren (born 1975) MLA for Dumka	13 July 2013	28 December 2014	1 year, 168 days	2009 (3rd)	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Position vacant (13 Jul. 2013 – present)	Hemant I	Syed Ahmed
6	Raghubar Das (born 1955) MLA for Jamshedpur East	28 December 2014	29 December 2019	5 years, 1 day	2014 (4th)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Das	Syed Ahmed
(5)	Hemant Soren (born 1975) MLA for Barhait	29 December 2019	2 February 2024	4 years, 35 days	2019 (5th)	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha		Hemant II	Droupadi Murmu
7	Champai Soren (born 1956) MLA for Seraikella	2 February 2024	4 July 2024	153 days				Champai	C. P. Radhakrishnan
(5)	Hemant Soren (born 1975) MLA for Barhait	4 July 2024	Incumbent	48 days				Hemant III	C. P. Radhakrishnan

Timeline

Notes

References

^ ^a ^b Basu, Durga Das (1960). Introduction to the Constitution of India (20 ed.). Nagpur: LexisNexis Butterworths, Wadhwa. pp. 241, 245. 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.
^ 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.

[term1-1] Basu, Durga Das (1960). Introduction to the Constitution of India (20 ed.). Nagpur: LexisNexis Butterworths, Wadhwa. pp. 241, 245. 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.

[main-2] Chaudhuri, Kalyan (1 September 2000). "Jharkhand, at last". Frontline. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.

[3] 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.

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