बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री: पूरी सूची, कार्यकाल और पार्टी

2000 से 2026 तक झारखंड के सभी मुख्यमंत्रियों की समयरेखा कार्यकाल और राष्ट्रपति शासन के साथ छायांकित

झामुमो, भाजपा और स्वतंत्र कार्यकाल को दर्शाने वाली पार्टी द्वारा झारखंड के मुख्यमंत्रियों का बार चार्ट

Article 164 of यह Constitution says यह मुख्य मंत्री is राज्यपाल द्वारा नियुक्त, और other मंत्री मुख्यमंत्री की सलाह पर. In practice यह Governor’s choice is settled by arithmetic: whoever can command एक बहुमत in यह Legislative विधानसभा gets यह job. यह Council of मंत्री is सामूहिक रूप से उत्तरदायी to जिसे विधानसभा, इसलिए there is no fixed कार्यकाल — जो is क्यों इसलिए कई Bihar tenures below खत्म in महीने rather than वर्ष.

यह विधानसभा has 243 seats और एक normal five-वर्ष कार्यकाल. Bihar भी has एक दूसरा chamber, यह 75-सदस्य Legislative Council, और एक मुख्य मंत्री may sit in either House; Nitish Kumar ran यह राज्य as एक MLC for ज़्यादातर of his time in पद. Anyone नियुक्त जबकि एक सदस्य of neither House must be निर्वाचित to one within six महीने.

Article 356 allows President’s शासन जब no सरकार can be बना या sustained. यह Council of मंत्री stands भंग और यह पद lies खाली जबकि यह Governor administers यह राज्य. Bihar has been through यह eight times, for लगभग 1,001 दिन in सभी.

के मुख्यमंत्रियों की पूरी सूची Bihar

सूची की शुरुआत 15 August 1947 के साथ Sri Krishna Sinha, भी written as Shri Krishna Singh और जाना जाता as Shri Babu. He had पहले ही ने नेतृत्व किया Bihar as Premier के तहत यह सरकार of India Act, 1935 — से 1937 to 1939 और again से March 1946 — और carried straight on जब यह title changed at independence.

One boundary matters for यह older rows: on 15 November 2000 यह Bihar पुनर्गठन Act carved Jharkhand out of southern Bihar. Rabri Devi was मुख्य मंत्री जिसे दिन, और यह विधानसभा shrank से 324 seats to 243. Everyone से पहले जिसे तारीख governed एक much larger Bihar, जिसमें शामिल हैं Chota Nagpur और Santhal Pargana.

Numbers in brackets mark एक return to पद. Dash rows are President’s शासन.

Two clusters of instability stand out. के बीच January 1968 और March 1972 यह राज्य got through six governments और three कार्यकाल of President’s शासन in four वर्ष. यह दूसरा came around 1999 और 2005, जब hung verdicts left Bihar के तहत Governor’s administration for nearly nine महीने in 2005 alone.

Published lists differ on एक couple of यह older handovers. यह Binodanand Jha to Krishna Ballabh Sahay transition in October 1963 is dated to 2 October in कुछ रिकॉर्ड और 15 October in others, और Bhola Paswan Shastri is filed के तहत Loktantrik Congress in ज़्यादातर listings लेकिन के तहत यह Congress in एक few. यह dates here follow यह अधिक commonly cited रिकॉर्ड.

सबसे लंबे समय तक रहने वाले और प्रमुख मुख्यमंत्री

Nitish Kumar is यह सबसे लंबा-serving मुख्य मंत्री of Bihar by total time in पद: 19 वर्ष और 237 दिन, या 7,177 दिन, across three कार्यकाल और ten swearings-in के बीच March 2000 और April 2026. His पार्टी changed sides अधिक than once in जिसे run — out of यह NDA in 2013, back in 2017, out again in 2022, back in 2024 — लेकिन यह chair did not change hands.

Sri Krishna Sinha holds यह सबसे लंबा unbroken stretch: 13 वर्ष और 169 दिन, से 15 August 1947 to his death on 31 January 1961. Count his वर्ष as Premier of Bihar से पहले independence और his total leadership comes to लगभग 17 वर्ष, जो is क्यों कुछ compilations rank him above Nitish Kumar और others below. Both figures are defensible; they measure अलग things.

के बाद वे two, total time in पद रन Rabri Devi (7 वर्ष, 192 दिन से अधिक three terms), Lalu Prasad Yadav (7 वर्ष, 130 दिन से अधिक two) और Jagannath Mishra (लगभग 5 वर्ष, 180 दिन से अधिक three).

Four tenures shaped यह राज्य अधिक than यह rest:

• Sri Krishna Sinha (1947-61) abolished zamindari in Bihar, among यह पहला states to do it, और built यह early industrial base at Barauni, Sindri और Bokaro.
• Karpoori Thakur (1970-71, 1977-79) introduced backward-class reservation in राज्य jobs in 1978, resetting Bihar’s politics for एक generation. He received यह Bharat Ratna posthumously in 2024.
• Lalu Prasad Yadav (1990-97)built a social coalition that ended Congress dominance for good and kept his family in power, through Rabri Devi, until 2005.
• Nitish Kumar (2005-2026, with one break)is associated with the road-building and law-and-order push after 2005, and with reserving half the panchayat seats for महिलाएं.

Rabri Devi remains the only woman to have been Chief Minister of Bihar, sworn in on 25 July 1997 when Lalu Prasad Yadav stepped down.

How Power Has Shifted: Party Trends in Bihar

Congress ran Bihar almost without interruption from 1947 to 1967 and returned repeatedly through the 1970s and 1980s. जगन्नाथ मिश्रा का तीसरा कार्यकाल, जो 10 मार्च 1990 को समाप्त हुआ, राज्य की आखिरी कांग्रेस सरकार थी।

The shape is long eras with a chaotic hinge between each: Congress dominance to 1967, then socialist and Janata experiments that rarely lasted a year, Congress again, the Lalu-Rabri period from 1990, and the Nitish Kumar era from 2005.

The latest shift came in two steps. The 2025 election gave the NDA 202 of 243 seats — BJP 89, JD(U) 85 — and Nitish Kumar was sworn in for a record tenth time on 20 November 2025 at Gandhi Maidan in Patna. He announced in March 2026 that he would move to the Rajya Sabha, resigned on 14 April, and the BJP legislature party chose Samrat Choudhary, who took the oath the next day with Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav as deputies. भाजपा ने शीर्ष पद पर रहे बिना दो दशकों तक बिहार में सत्ता साझा की थी। That changed on 15 April 2026.

Records and Quick Facts

• First Chief Minister:Sri Krishna Sinha, from 15 August 1947.
• Current Chief Minister:Samrat Choudhary, since 15 April 2026, the first BJP leader to hold the post.
• सबसे लंबा कुल कार्यकाल:नीतीश कुमार, 19 साल और 237 दिन।
• सबसे लंबा अखंड कार्यकाल:श्री कृष्ण सिन्हा, 13 वर्ष और 169 दिन।
• Shortest tenure:Satish Prasad Singh, four days in January-February 1968. Some listings say three or five, depending on how the first and last days are counted.
• अधिकांश शर्तें:भोला पासवान शास्त्री, जगन्नाथ मिश्रा और राबड़ी देवी, तीन-तीन; नीतीश कुमार ने तीन मंत्रों में दस बार शपथ ली।
• पहली महिला मुख्यमंत्री:राबड़ी देवी, 1997 में, और अब भी एकमात्र।
• First non-Congress Chief Minister:Mahamaya Prasad Sinha, in 1967.
• Died in office:Sri Krishna Sinha, on 31 January 1961.
• President’s Rule:eight spells, totalling roughly 1,001 दिन.
• व्यक्ति बनाम शर्तें:24 लोग, कार्यालय में 34 अलग-अलग मंत्र।

For how other states have handled the same office, see the lists forAndhra PradeshandDelhi.

सामान्य प्रश्न

Who is the current Chief Minister of Bihar?नीतीश कुमार के राज्यसभा में प्रवेश के लिए इस्तीफा देने के बाद 15 अप्रैल 2026 को भारतीय जनता पार्टी के सम्राट चौधरी ने शपथ ली। वह तारापुर विधानसभा क्षेत्र का प्रतिनिधित्व करते हैं और राज्य के इतिहास में भाजपा के पहले मुख्यमंत्री हैं।

बिहार के प्रथम मुख्यमंत्री कौन थे?Sri Krishna Sinha, from 15 August 1947 until his death on 31 January 1961. He had led the province as Premier before independence, in 1937-39 and again from 1946.

Who is the longest-serving Chief Minister of Bihar?नीतीश कुमार, तीन कार्यकालों में कुल मिलाकर 19 साल और 237 दिन। श्रीकृष्ण सिन्हा 13 वर्ष और 169 दिन की सबसे लंबी एकल अखंड अवधि रखते हैं।

बिहार में कितने मुख्यमंत्री हुए हैं?Twenty-four different people since 1947. Counting each fresh appointment separately gives 34 spells, along with eight periods of President’s Rule when the office lay vacant.

बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री की नियुक्ति कैसे होती है?Lalu Prasad Yadav (1990-97)

built a social coalition that ended Congress dominance for good and kept his family in power, through Rabri Devi, until 2005.

Nitish Kumar (2005-2026, with one break)

1. is associated with the road-building and law-and-order push after 2005, and with reserving half the panchayat seats for महिलाएं.Rabri Devi remains the only woman to have been Chief Minister of Bihar, sworn in on 25 July 1997 when Lalu Prasad Yadav stepped down.How Power Has Shifted: Party Trends in Bihar
2. Congress ran Bihar almost without interruption from 1947 to 1967 and returned repeatedly through the 1970s and 1980s. जगन्नाथ मिश्रा का तीसरा कार्यकाल, जो 10 मार्च 1990 को समाप्त हुआ, राज्य की आखिरी कांग्रेस सरकार थी।Party or blocIndividuals who served as CM
3. Period in powerIndian National Congress (including INC (R))1947-1967, and intermittently until 1990
4. Socialist and Janata parties (SSP, Shoshit Dal, Jana Kranti Dal, Loktantrik Congress, Janata Party)Janata Dal and Rashtriya Janata DalSamata Party and Janata Dal (United)
5. भारतीय जनता पार्टी2026 onwardsThe shape is long eras with a chaotic hinge between each: Congress dominance to 1967, then socialist and Janata experiments that rarely lasted a year, Congress again, the Lalu-Rabri period from 1990, and the Nitish Kumar era from 2005.