Various Chief Ministers Of Madhya Pradesh

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List Of Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh

Shivraj Singh Chauhan took oath for the fourth time on March 23, 2020, as the Chief Minister of MP after Kamal Nath stepped down ahead of the floor test in the state assembly. India is a union of states and the Chief Minister of a state is an executive of the state government. To know about the MP CM list, we need to know about Article 164 of the Indian Constitution, the Chief Minister shall be appointed by the Governor of the state for a term of 5 years or till there is a majority in the Legislative Assembly. The state of Madhya Pradesh is called the heart of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956. Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly has 230 seats. Among the MP CM list, the first Chief Minister was Mr. Ravishankar Shukla. To date, 18 people have served as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

List of Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh

S. No	Chief Minister	From	To	Party Name
1	Kamal Nath	18 Dec 2018	Present	INC
2	Shivraj Singh Chauhan	14 Dec 2013	17 Dec 2018	BJP
3	Shivraj Singh Chauhan	13 Dec 2008	13 Dec 2013	BJP
4	Shivraj Singh Chauhan	29 Nov 2005	12 Dec 2008	BJP
5	Babulal Gaur	23 Aug 2004	29 Nov 2005	BJP
6	Uma Bharti	08 Dec 2003	23 Aug 2004	BJP
7	Digvijay Singh	01 Dec 1998	08 Dec 2003	INC
8	Digvijay Singh	07 Dec 1993	01 Dec 1998	INC
9	President's rule	16 Dec 1992	06 Dec 1993
10	Sunderlal Patwa	05 Mar 1990	15 Dec 1992	BJP
11	Shyama Charan Shukla	09 Dec 1989	04 Mar 1990	INC
12	Motilal Vora	25 Jan 1989	08 Dec 1989	INC
13	Arjun Singh	14 Feb 1988	24 Jan 1989	INC
14	Motilal Vora	13 Mar 1985	13 Feb 1988	INC
15	Arjun Singh	11 Mar 1985	12 Mar 1985	INC
16	Arjun Singh	08 Jun 1980	10 Mar 1985	INC
17	President's rule	18 Feb 1980	08 Jun 1980
18	Sunderlal Patwa	20 Jan 1980	17 Feb 1980	Janata Party
19	Virendra Kumar Saklecha	18 Jan 1978	19 Jan 1980	Janata Party
20	Kailash Chandra Joshi	26 Jun 1977	17 Jan 1978	Janata Party
21	President's rule	29 Apr 1977	25 Jun 1977
22	Shyama Charan Shukla	23 Dec 1975	29 Apr 1977	INC
23	Prakash Chandra Sethi	23 Mar 1972	22 Dec 1975	INC
24	Prakash Chandra Sethi	29 Jan 1972	22 Mar 1972	INC
25	Shyama Charan Shukla	26 Mar 1969	28 Jan 1972	INC
26	Raja Nareshchandra Singh	13 Mar 1969	25 Mar 1969	INC
27	Govind Narayan Singh	30 Jul 1967	12 Mar 1969	INC
28	Dwarka Prasad Mishra	09 Mar 1967	29 Jul 1967	INC
29	Dwarka Prasad Mishra	30 Sep 1963	08 Mar 1967	INC
30	Bhagwantrao Mandloi	12 Mar 1962	29 Sep 1963	INC
31	Kailash Nath Katju	14 Mar 1957	11 Mar 1962	INC
32	Kailash Nath Katju	31 Jan 1957	14 Mar 1957	INC
33	Bhagwantrao Mandloi	01 Jan 1957	30 Jan 1957	INC
34	Pt. Ravishankar Shukla	01 Nov 1956	31 Dec 1956	INC

Present CM of Madhya Pradesh

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Shivraj Singh Chouhan was born in the Jait village of Sehore district on March 5, 1959, to Prem Singh Chouhan (Father) and Sundar Bai Chouhan (Mother). His father was a farmer and his mother was a housewife. Chouhan completed his schooling at Model Higher Senior Secondary School in Bhopal. He served as the President of the Student’s Union of the School. He did his post-graduation from Barkatullah University in Philosophy and is a Gold Medalist.

He is the present chief minister of Madhya Pradesh and is from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Shivraj Singh Chouhan has had an illustrious political career spanning over more than 30 years. Let's take a detailed look at his political career.

1990- Shivraj Singh Chouhan started his political career from Budhni Constituency in 1990 where he was elected to the state assembly. He was also elected as an MP from the Visdisha constituency for the first time in the 10th Lok Sabha in the same year.
1996- Shivraj Singh Chouhan was re-elected to the 11th Lok Sabha.
1996-1997- During this period, he was the Member of the Committee on Urban and Rural Development and was also a Member of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of HRD.
1997-1998- He was appointed as the General Secretary of BJP (Madhya Pradesh). In 1998, Shivraj was re-elected to the 12th Lok Sabha.
1998-1999- Shivraj Singh Chouhan served as the Member of the Committee on Urban and Rural Development and the Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment. In 1999, he was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha for the fourth time.
1999-2000- During this period Chouhan was a Member of the Committee on Agriculture and from
1999-2001- He served as the Member of the Committee on Public Undertakings.
2000-2003- Shivraj Singh Chouhan served as the National President of Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha.
2000-2004- Chouhan became a Member of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of Communications. In 2004 Shivraj Singh Chouhan was re-elected to the 14th Lok Sabha for the fifth time.
2005- On November 29, 2005, Shivraj Singh Chouhan was elected the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for the first time. During this period he was also the BJP Party President for Madhya Pradesh. In the same year, Chouhan contested a by-election from the Budhni assembly and regained his old seat by a margin of 36,000 votes.
2008- Shivraj Singh contested the elections from the Budhni constituency again and this time he won with a margin of 41,000 votes. On December 12, 2008, Shivraj Singh Chouhan was re-elected as the CM of Madhya Pradesh for his second term.
2013- Chouhan contested the Legislative Assembly elections from both the Budhni and Vidisha constituency and won with a margin of 128,730 and 73,783 votes respectively. On December 14, 2013, Chouhan was sworn in as the Chief Minister of MP for the third time.
2018- On December 12, 2018, Shivraj Singh Chouhan resigned as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh since he failed to acquire a majority in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly election.
2020- Sworn in as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh for the fourth time on 23rd March 2020.

Interesting facts about the Madhya Pradesh CM list

Uma Bharti from the Bharatiya Janata Party has been the only woman Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan holds the record of the longest-serving Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He has served 13 years in the CM office, from November 2005 to December 2018. He has now been re-elected for the fourth time as the CM of Madhya Pradesh in 2020.
Digvijaya Singh was the first office-bearer to serve as the CM of Madhya Pradesh for two full five-year terms.
M.P CM list has the President’s rule three times from 1956 to date.

FAQs on Various Chief Ministers Of Madhya Pradesh

1. What is the President’s Rule?

An Emergency declared in a state due to the failure of the constitutional machinery (Article 356) is popularly known as the President’s Rule. It is commonly known as State Emergency or Constitutional Emergency but the Constitution does not use the word emergency for such a situation. The emergency provisions have been included in part XVIII of the constitution, from articles 352 to 360 and the President’s Rule is mentioned in article 356 of the Indian constitution.

During the President's rule, the state executive is dismissed and the state legislature is either dissolved or suspended. The president becomes the administrative head of the state and manages the affairs through the governor while the Parliament makes laws for the state. The Center assumes the executive and legislative powers of the state during the President’s Rule.

2. How many office-bearers have served as the CM of Madhya Pradesh to date?

Since Madhya Pradesh's reorganization on 1 November 1956, 18 office-bearers have served as its chief minister. Twelve of them were from the Indian National Congress including the inaugural chief minister Ravishankar Shukla. The first non-Congress chief minister of Madhya Pradesh was Govind Narayan Singh who defected from the party. He subsequently led the Samyukta Vidhayak Dal government from 1967 to 1969.

3. Who was the first chief minister of Madhya Pradesh?

Ravishankar Shukla of the Indian National Congress was the first CM of Madhya Pradesh. He was appointed Madhya Pradesh chief minister on November 1, 1956, and his term of office was only 60 days.