| Incumbent: | Mohan Yadav |
| Incumbentsince: | 13 December 2023 |
| Appointer: | Governor of Madhya Pradesh |
| Inaugural: | Ravishankar Shukla |
| Post: | Chief Minister |
| Body: | Madhya Pradesh |
| Insignia: | Emblem of Madhya Pradesh.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 200px |
| Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Madhya Pradesh |
| Status: | Head of Government |
| Abbreviation: | CM |
| Member Of: | Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
| Reportsto: | |
| Termlength: | 5 years |
| Termlength Qualified: | Chief minister's term is for five years, provided the confidence of legislative assembly and is subject to no term limits.[1] |
| Department: | Government of Madhya Pradesh |
The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh is the chief executive of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. 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 Madhya Pradesh 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.[2]
Following Madhya Pradesh's reorganisation on 1 November 1999, 19 people have served as its chief minister. Twelve of these belonged to the Indian National Congress, including the inaugural officeholder Ravishankar Shukla. The first non-Congress chief minister was Govind Narayan Singh who defected from the party and lead a Samyukta Vidhayak Dal government from 1967 to 1969. Digvijaya Singh of the Congress became the first officeholder to serve two full five-year terms. He was succeeded by Uma Bharti of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh's only woman chief minister. Shivraj Singh Chouhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party was the longest-serving chief minister of the state, serving for over 16 and half years. Chouhan was succeeded by Dr. Mohan Yadav of his own party after the 2023 elections, which was seen as a landslide victory[3] for the BJP.
In 1948, the eastern regions of Central India Agency, became the Union of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand States, and were later renamed to Vindhya Pradesh, in 1952. It was admitted into the union as a "Part B" state.
| Name | Tenure | Assembly | Appointed by | Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Awadhesh Pratap Singh | 28 May 1948 | 15 April 1949 | Not yet created | Rameshwar Prasad Singh | Independent | ||
| 2 | S. N. Mehta | 15 April 1949 | 31 March 1952 | Martand Singh | Indian National Congress | |||
| 3 | Sambhu Nath Shukla | 31 March 1952 | 31 October 1956 | 1st(1952 elections) | ||||
In 1948, the western regions of Central India Agency and the Gwalior and Indore residencies, became the new state of Madhya Bharat. It was admitted into the union as a "Part B" state.
| Portrait | Name | Tenure | Assembly | Appointed by | Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liladhar Joshi | 28 May 1948 | May 1949 | Not yet created | Jivaji Rao Scindia | Indian National Congress | |||
| 2 | Gopikrishna Vijayavargiya | May 1949 | 18 October 1950 | ||||||
| 3 | Takhatmal Jain | 18 October 1950 | 31 March 1952 | ||||||
| 4 | Mishrilal Gangwal | 31 March 1952 | 16 April 1955 | 1st(1952 elections) | |||||
| (3) | Takhatmal Jain | 16 April 1955 | 31 October 1956 | ||||||
On 30 April 1949, Sir Hamidullah Khan, the Nawab of Bhopal signed an Instrument of Accession to the Dominion of India. The state of Bhopal was taken over by the Union Government on 1 June 1949, and was declared a "Part C" state.
After the independence of India, the state of Madhya Pradesh was created in 1950 from the Central Provinces and Berar and the princely state of Makrai with Nagpur as the capital of the state.
The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 merged the states of Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, and Bhopal were merged into Madhya Pradesh and the Marathi-speaking southern region Vidarbha, which included Nagpur, was ceded to Bombay. In November 2000, as part of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act the southeastern portion of the state was split off to form the new state of Chhattisgarh.
| Portrait | Name | Constituency | Tenure[6] [7] | Assembly | Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ravishankar Shukla[8] | N/A | 26 January 1950 | 30 March 1952 | Not yet created | Indian National Congress | |||
| Saraipali | 31 March 1952 | 31 October 1956 | 1st[9] | ||||||
| 1 November 1956 | 31 December 1956 | ||||||||
| 2 | Bhagwantrao Mandloi | Khandwa | 9 January 1957 | 31 January 1957 | |||||
| 3 | Kailash Nath Katju | Jaora | 31 January 1957 | 14 March 1957 | |||||
| 14 March 1957 | 12 March 1962 | 2nd | |||||||
| (2) | Bhagwantrao Mandloi | Khandwa | 12 March 1962 | 30 September 1963 | 3rd | ||||
| 4 | Dwarka Prasad Mishra | Katangi | 30 September 1963 | 8 March 1967 | |||||
| 8 March 1967 | 30 July 1967 | 4th | |||||||
| 5 | Govind Narayan Singh | Rampur-Baghelan | 30 July 1967 | 13 March 1969 | Samyukta Vidhayak Dal | ||||
| 6 | Nareshchandra Singh | Pussore | 13 March 1969 | 26 March 1969 | |||||
| 7 | Shyama Charan Shukla | Rajim | 26 March 1969 | 29 January 1972 | Indian National Congress | ||||
| 8 | Prakash Chandra Sethi | Ujjain North | 29 January 1972 | 22 March 1972 | |||||
| 23 March 1972 | 23 December 1975 | 5th | |||||||
| (7) | Shyama Charan Shukla | Rajim | 23 December 1975 | 30 April 1977 | |||||
| – | Vacant(President's rule) | N/A | 30 April 1977 | 23 June 1977 | Dissolved | N/A | |||
| 9 | Kailash Chandra Joshi | Bagli | 24 June 1977 | 18 January 1978 | 6th | Janata Party | |||
| 10 | Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha | Jawad | 18 January 1978 | 20 January 1980 | |||||
| 11 | Sunderlal Patwa | Mandsaur | 20 January 1980 | 17 February 1980 | |||||
| – | Vacant(President's rule) | N/A | 17 February 1980 | 9 June 1980 | Dissolved | N/A | |||
| 12 | Arjun Singh | Churhat | 9 June 1980 | 10 March 1985 | 7th | Indian National Congress | |||
| 11 March 1985 | 13 March 1985 | 8th | |||||||
| 13 | Motilal Vora | Durg | 13 March 1985 | 14 February 1988 | |||||
| (12) | Arjun Singh | Kharsia | 14 February 1988 | 25 January 1989 | |||||
| (13) | Motilal Vora | Durg | 25 January 1989 | 9 December 1989 | |||||
| (7) | Shyama Charan Shukla | 9 December 1989 | 5 March 1990 | ||||||
| (11) | Sunderlal Patwa | Bhojpur | 5 March 1990 | 15 December 1992 | 9th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
| – | Vacant(President's rule) | N/A | 15 December 1992 | 6 December 1993 | Dissolved | N/A | |||
| 14 | Digvijaya Singh | Chachoura | 7 December 1993 | 1 December 1998 | 10th | Indian National Congress | |||
| Raghogarh | 1 December 1998 | 8 December 2003 | 11th | ||||||
| 15 | Uma Bharti | Malhara | 8 December 2003 | 23 August 2004 | 12th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
| 16 | Babulal Gaur | Govindpura | 23 August 2004 | 29 November 2005 | |||||
| 17 | Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Budhni | 29 November 2005 | 12 December 2008 | |||||
| 12 December 2008 | 13 December 2013 | 13th | |||||||
| 14 December 2013 | 17 December 2018 | 14th | |||||||
| 18 | Kamal Nath | Chhindwara | 17 December 2018 | 23 March 2020 | 15th | Indian National Congress | |||
| (17) | Shivraj Singh Chouhan | Budhni | 23 March 2020 | 13 December 2023 | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||
| 19 | Mohan Yadav | Ujjain South | 13 December 2023 | Incumbent | 16th | ||||