WOMEN 'RULE'

Published By Sounak Mukhopadhyay | 17 Sep, 2024

17 CMs so far

Since 1947, India has had 17 women chief ministers.

Sucheta Kripalani (Uttar Pradesh)

2 October 1963 - 13 March 1967 Credit : X/@iamrana

Nandini Satpathy (Odisha)

14 June 1972 - 16 December 1976 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Shashikala Kakodkar (Goa)

12 August 1973 - 27 April 1979 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Anwara Taimur (Assam)

6 December 1980 - 30 June 1981 Credit : X/@syedurahman

V. N. Janaki (Tamil Nadu)

7 January 1988 - 30 January 1988 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

J. Jayalalithaa (Tamil Nadu)

24 June 1991 - 12 May 1996 14 May 2001 - 21 September 2001 2 March 2002 - 12 May 2006 16 May 2011 - 27 September 2014 23 May 2015 - 5 December 2016 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Mayawati (Uttar Pradesh)

13 June 1995 - 18 October 1995 21 March 1997 - 21 September 1997 3 May 2002 - 29 August 2003 13 May 2007 - 15 March 2012 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (Punjab)

21 November 1996 - 12 February 1997 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Rabri Devi (Bihar)

25 July 1997 - 11 February 1999 9 March 1999 - 2 March 2000 11 March 2000 - 6 March 2005 Credit : Hindustan Times

Sushma Swaraj (Delhi)

12 October 1998 - 3 December 1998 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Sheila Dikshit (Delhi)

3 December 1998 - 28 December 2013 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Uma Bharti (Madhya Pradesh)

8 December 2003 - 23 August 2004 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Vasundhara Raje (Rajasthan)

8 December 2003 - 13 December 2008 13 December 2013 - 17 December 2018 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal)

20 May 2011 - Present Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Anandiben Patel (Gujarat)

22 May 2014 - 7 August 2016 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Mehbooba Mufti (Jammu and Kashmir)

4 April 2016 - 19 June 2018 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

Atishi Marlena Singh (Delhi)

Tenure starts on 18 September 2024 Credit : Wikimedia Commons

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