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Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Emblem of Maharashtra
since 28 November 2019
StyleThe Honourable (Formal)
Mr. Chief Minister (Informal)
StatusHead of Government
AbbreviationCM
Member of
ResidenceVarsha Bungalow, Malabar Hill, Mumbai
SeatMantralaya, Mumbai
AppointerGovernor of Maharashtra
Term lengthAt the confidence of the assembly
Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]
PrecursorChief Minister of Bombay State
Inaugural holderYashwantrao Chavan (1960-1962)
Formation1 May 1960
(64 years ago) (1960-05-01)
DeputyAjit Pawar
WebsiteCMO Maharashtra

The Chief Minister of Maharashtra is the head of the Government of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Following elections to the Legislative Assembly, the Governor invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government and appoints the Chief Minister (CM). If the appointee is not a member of either the Legislative Assembly or the Legislative Council of Maharashtra, then the Constitution stipulates that they need to be elected within six months of being sworn-in.[2] The office of the CM is coterminous with the concurrent Assembly provided the CM commands confidence in the house and hence does not exceed five years. However, it is subject to no term limits.[1]

Maharashtra was formed by dissolution of Bombay State on 1 May 1960.[3] Yashwantrao Chavan, who was serving as the third CM of Bombay State since 1956, became the first CM of Maharashtra. He belonged to the Indian National Congress and held the office until the 1962 Assembly elections. Marotrao Kannanwar succeeded him and was the only CM to die while in office.[4][5] Vasantrao Naik, who was in office from December 1963 to February 1975 for more than 11 years, has by far been the longest serving CM. He also was the first and only CM to complete his full term of five years (1967-1972) till Devendra Fadnavis matched it (2014-2019). With the exceptions of Manohar Joshi (Shiv Sena), Narayan Rane (Shiv Sena), Devendra Fadnavis (Bharatiya Janata Party) and Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena), all other CMs have been from the Congress or its breakaway parties.[6][7][8] So far, President's rule has been imposed thrice in the state: first from February to June 1980 and again from September to October 2014. It was again imposed on 12 November 2019 [9][10] The current incumbent is Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray of the Shiv Sena since 28 November 2019.

List of Chief Ministers

Colour key for political parties

  Indian National Congress
  Indian National Congress (Urs)
  Indian National Congress (Socialist)
  Shiv Sena
  Bharatiya Janata Party
  N/A (President's rule)

Chief Ministers of Bombay State

No.[a] Name

(birth-death)

Portrait Constituency Term
(tenure length) 		Party
Took office Left office Duration
Prime Ministers of Bombay State (The term was 'Prime Minister' before independence)
1 B. G. Kher
(1888-1957)
Congress Governments resigned
in protest because India was dragged
in world war without consultation[11] 		1937 October 1939 Indian National Congress rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" width="4px" |
(1) B. G. Kher
30 March 1946 15 August 1947 1 year, 138 days
Chief Ministers of Bombay State [b]
1 B. G. Kher
(1888-1957)
15 August 1947 21 April 1952 4 years, 250 days Indian National Congress rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" width="4px" |
2 Morarji Desai
(1896-1995)
Chikhli, Gujarat 21 April 1952 31 October 1956 4 years, 193 days
Chief Ministers of Bombay State (after the States Reorganisation Act, 1956) [c]
3 Yashwantrao Chavan
(1913-1984)
Karad North 1 November 1956 5 April 1957 3 years, 181 days Indian National Congress rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" width="4px" |
5 April 1957 30 April 1960

Chief Ministers of Maharashtra[d]

No Name

(birth-death)

Portrait Constituency Term of office Party

(Alliance)[7]

Assembly
Took office Left office Duration
1 Yashwantrao Chavan
(1913-1984)
Karad North 1 May 1960 19 November 1962 2 years, 202 days Indian National Congress rowspan="8" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" width="4px" | 1st
2 Marotrao Kannamwar
(1900-1963) 		- Saoli 20 November 1962 24 November 1963 1 year, 4 days 2nd
3 P. K. Sawant - Chiplun 25 November 1963 4 December 1963 9 days
4 Vasantrao Naik
(1913-1979) 		- Pusad 5 December 1963 1 March 1967 11 years, 77 days
1 March 1967 13 March 1972 3rd
13 March 1972 20 February 1975 4th
5 Shankarrao Chavan
(1920-2004)
Bhokar 21 February 1975 16 May 1977 2 years, 84 days
(of 4 years, 190 days)
6 Vasantdada Patil

(1917-1989)

Member of the

Maharashtra Legislative Council[14]

17 May 1977 5 March 1978 1 year, 62 days
(of 3 years, 181-day)
Sangli 5 March 1978 18 July 1978 Indian National Congress (Urs)[15][16]

(Congress - Congress (I))

5th
7 Sharad Pawar
(born 1940)
Baramati 18 July 1978 17 February 1980 1 year, 214 days
(of 6 years, 221 days) 		Indian National Congress

(Socialist)[17][18]

(Progressive Democratic Front)

– Vacant[e]
(President's rule) 		State Emblem of India N/A 17 February 1980 8 June 1980 112 days N/A Dissolved[20]
8 Abdul Rehman Antulay
(1929-2014) 		- Shrivardhan 9 June 1980 12 January 1982 1 year, 217 days Indian National Congress rowspan="9" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" width="4px" | 6th
9 Babasaheb Bhosale
(1921-2007) 		- Nehrunagar 21 January 1982 1 February 1983 1 year, 11 days
(6) Vasantdada Patil [2]

(1917-1989)

Sangli[21]

(After winning the by-elections on 3 July 1983)

2 February 1983 1 June 1985 2 years, 119 days
(of 3 years, 181-day)
10 Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar
(1931—2020) 		- Nilanga 3 June 1985 6 March 1986 276 days 7th
(5) Shankarrao Chavan [2]

(1920-2004)

- Member of the

Maharashtra Legislative Council[22]

12 March 1986 26 June 1988 2 years, 106 days
(of 4 years, 190 days)
(7) Sharad Pawar [2]
(born 1940)
Baramati 26 June 1988 3 March 1990 2 years, 364 days
(of 6 years, 221 days)
4 March 1990 25 June 1991 8th
11 Sudhakarrao Naik
(1934-2001) 		- Pusad 25 June 1991 22 February 1993 1 year, 242 days
(7) Sharad Pawar [3]

(born 1940)

Baramati 6 March 1993 14 March 1995 2 years, 8 days
(of 6 years, 221 days)
12 Manohar Joshi
(born 1937)
Dadar 14 March 1995 31 January 1999 3 years, 323 days Shiv Sena

(Sena-BJP)

9th
13 Narayan Rane
(born 1952)
Malvan 1 February 1999 17 October 1999 258 days
14 Vilasrao Deshmukh
(1945-2012)
Latur City 18 October 1999 16 January 2003 3 years, 90 days
(of 7 years, 123 days) 		Indian National Congress

(Congress-NCP)

rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" width="4px" | 10th
15 Sushilkumar Shinde

(born 1941)

Solapur South[23]

(After winning the by-elections on 24 May 2003)

18 January 2003 30 October 2004 1 year, 286 days
(14) Vilasrao Deshmukh [2]
(1945-2012)
Latur City 1 November 2004 4 December 2008 4 years, 33 days
(of 7 years, 123 days) 		11th
16 Ashok Chavan
(born 1958)
File:Ashok Chavan 2010 - still 114915 crop.jpg
 Bhokar 8 December 2008 15 October 2009 1 year, 336 days
7 November 2009 9 November 2010 12th
17 Prithviraj Chavan
(born 1946)
Member of the

Maharashtra Legislative Council[24][25]

11 November 2010 26 September 2014 3 years, 319 days
– Vacant[e]
(President's rule) 		State Emblem of India N/A 28 September 2014[26] 30 October 2014[27] 32 days N/A
18 Devendra Fadnavis
(born 1970)
File:Devendra Fadnavis Official Photo.jpg
 Nagpur South West 31 October 2014 8 November 2019[28] 5 years, 8 days Bharatiya Janata Party

(BJP-Sena)

style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | 13th
- Vacant[e]
(President's rule) 		State Emblem of India N/A 12 November 2019[29] 23 November 2019[30] 11 days N/A
(18) Devendra Fadnavis [2]
(born 1970)
File:Devendra Fadnavis Official Photo.jpg
 Nagpur South West 23 November 2019[31] 26 November 2019[32] 3 days
[f] 		Bharatiya Janata Party

(BJP-NCP (Ajit Pawar group))

style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | 14th
19 Uddhav Thackeray
(born 1960)
Member of the

Maharashtra Legislative Council

28 November 2019[37]
 Incumbent 4 years, 341 days Shiv Sena
(Maha Vikas Aghadi)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ A parenthetical number indicates that the incumbent has previously held office.
  2. ^ After India's Independence, Bombay State was created and its territory underwent constant change in the following years. It comprised Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding South Maharashtra and Vidarbha), the princely states of the Baroda, Western India and Gujarat (the present-day Indian state of Gujarat) and Deccan States (which included parts of the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and Karnataka).[12]
  3. ^ States Reorganisation Act, 1956: Bombay State was enlarged by the addition of Saurashtra State and Kutch State, the Marathi-speaking districts of Nagpur Division of Madhya Pradesh and Marathwada region of Hyderabad State. The southernmost districts of the Bombay Presidency were transferred to Mysore State.[13]
  4. ^ Bombay state was dissolved to form the present-day states of Maharashtra and Gujarat by the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960, which was enacted by the Parliament of India on 25 April 1960 and came into effect on 1 May 1960.[3]
  5. ^ a b c Under Article 356 of the Constitution of India, in the event that a state government is unable to function according to constitutional provisions, the Central government can take direct control of the state machinery through the Governor. When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.[19]
  6. ^ Fadnavis sworn in as CM on 23 November 2019 at 8:00 am and resigned on 26 November 2019 at 4:00 pm making him the CM with shortest tenure ever in the history of India.[33][34] Before him, Jagdambika Pal had the shortest tenure as chief minister. He was the CM of Uttar Pradesh for 44 hours from 21 to 23 February 1998 and both Fadnavis and Pal were from BJP.[35] P. K. Sawant from INC was the CM with shortest term before Fadnavis for Maharastra; became CM on 25 November 1963 and his tenure ended on 4 December 1963.[36]

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  37. ^ Vyas, Sharad (26 November 2019). "Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray to be sworn in as Maharashtra Chief Minister on November 28". The Hindu.
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