List of chief ministers of Telangana

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Chief Minister of Telangana
Telaṅgāṇa Mukhyamantri
Incumbent
Revanth Reddy
since 7 December 2023
Chief Minister's Office
(Government of Telangana)
Style
StatusHead of Government
AbbreviationCMO
Member of
Reports toGovernor of Telangana
ResidencePraja Bhavan, Hyderabad
SeatTelangana Secretariat
AppointerGovernor of Telangana
Term lengthChief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]
Inaugural holderK. Chandrashekar Rao
Formation2 June 2014; 9 years ago (2014-06-02)
DeputyDeputy Chief Minister of Telangana
WebsiteOfficial website

The Chief Minister of Telangana is the chief executive of the Indian state of Telangana. 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 Telangana 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 that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]

Since the state's creation on 2 June 2014,[2] Telangana has had two chief ministers, the first of which belongs to Bharat Rashtra Samithi party, its founder and former Minister of Labour and Employment of the Republic of India K. Chandrashekar Rao was the inaugural holder of the office who sworn in two times by winning the 2014 and 2018 assembly elections consecutively. The Current Chief Minister is Revanth Reddy of the Indian National Congress since 7 December 2023.

Precursors[edit]

Hyderabad State (1948–1956)[edit]

Location of the Hyderabad State (1948–1956) on the map of India.

The Hyderabad State included nine Telugu districts of Telangana, four Kannada districts in Gulbarga division and four Marathi districts in Aurangabad division. After the States reorganisation in 1956, regions west of the red and blue lines merged with Bombay and Mysore States respectively and the remaining part (Telangana) was merged with Andhra State to form United Andhra Pradesh.

# Portrait Chief Minister
(Lifespan)
Constituency
Term of office Election
(Term)
Party Government Appointed by
(Governor)
1 Mullath Kadingi Vellodi
(1896–1987)
Civil servant
26 January 1950 6 March 1952 2 years, 40 days
(1st)
Independent Vellodi Mir Osman Ali Khan
2 Burgula Ramakrishna Rao
(1899–1967)
MLA for Shadnagar
6 March 1952 31 October 1956 4 years, 239 days 1952
(2nd)
Indian National Congress Burgula


List of chief ministers[edit]

Telangana (since 2014)[edit]

Location of the Telangana (since 2014) on the map of India.

The state of Telangana was officially formed on 2 June 2014. Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao was elected as the first chief minister of Telangana, following elections in which the Bharat Rashtra Samithi party secured a majority.[3] Hyderabad would remain as the joint capital of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for a period. Within the decade, Hyderabad would become the capital of the state of Telangana, and a new capital was selected for Andhra Pradesh.[4] Andhra Pradesh picked Amaravati as its capital and relocated its secretariat in 2016 and its legislature in 2017.[5][6]

# Portrait Chief Minister
(Lifespan)
Constituency
Term of office[7] Election
(Term)
Party Government Appointed by
(Governor)
Term start Term end Duration
1 Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao
(born 1954)
MLA for Gajwel
2 June 2014 12 December 2018 9 years, 187 days 2014
(1st)
Bharat Rashtra Samithi Rao I E. S. L. Narasimhan
13 December 2018 6 December 2023 2018
(2nd)
Rao II
2 Anumula Revanth Reddy
(born 1969)
MLA for Kodangal
7 December 2023 Incumbent 165 days 2023
(3rd)
Indian National Congress Reddy Tamilisai Soundararajan

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Andhra Pradesh as well.
  2. ^ Shankar, Kunal (26 June 2015). "A mixed bag". Frontline. Archived from the original on 2 February 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  3. ^ Amarnath K Menon (1 June 2014). "Telangana is born, KCR to take oath as its first CM". THE INDIA TODAY GROUP. Hyderabad. Archived from the original on 11 November 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  4. ^ Amid chaos and slogans, Rajya Sabha clears Telangana bill Archived 6 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine – NDTV, 20 February 2014
  5. ^ "Andhra Pradesh Secretariat starts functioning from interim government complex at Amaravati". 3 October 2016. Archived from the original on 2 August 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu inaugurates new Andhra Pradesh Assembly". Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  7. ^ The ordinal number of the term being served by the person specified in the row in the corresponding period

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