FEMALE INDIAN CHIEF MINISTERS

• Fourteen women have served as the chief minister of an Indian state.

• Currently, three are in office—Vasundara Rajae Scindia, Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee.

• Of the eleven states to have been headed by a female chief minister, only three—Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh—have had two.

• Sucheta Kriplani is the first woman to be chief minister of any state in India.

• Syeda Anwara Taimur is the first muslim female who became the chief minister.

• J. Jayalalithaa is a film actress who became CM.

• Mayawait is the first dalit CM of any Indian state.

• Mamata Banerjee became CM after uprooting 34 year old Left front rule in the state.

• Vasundhara Raje belongs to royal Maratha Scindia family.

• Sheila Dikshit is the only woman chief minister to lead a government for a third consecutive term.

• Rajinder Kaur Bhattal is the first and only Female CM of Punjab till date.

• Janaki Ramachandran was CM only for 23 days.

• Shashikala Kakodkar is the first female CM of GOA.

No	Name	State	Term(s)	Party
1	Sucheta Kriplani	Uttar Pradesh	2 October 1963 – 13 March 1967	INC
2	Nandini Satpathy	Orissa	14 June 1972 – 3 March 1973 6 March 1974 – 16 December 1976	INC
3	Shashikala Kakodkar	Goa	12 August 1973 – 27 April 1979	Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
4	Syeda Anwara Taimur	Assam	6 December 1980 – 30 June 1981	INC
5	Janaki Ramachandran	Tamil Nadu	7–30 January 1988	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
6	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 – present	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
7	Mayawati	Uttar Pradesh	13 June 1995 – 18 October 1995 21 March 1997 – 21 September 1997 3 May 2002 – 29 August 2003 13 May 2007 – 7 March 2012	Bahujan Samaj Party
8	Rajinder Kaur Bhattal	Punjab	21 January 1996 – 12 February 1997	INC
9	Rabri Devi	Bihar	25 July 1997 – 11 February 1999 9 March 1999 – 2 March 2000 11 March 2000 – 6 March 2005	Rashtriya Janata Dal
10	Sushma Swaraj	Delhi	13 October 1998 – 3 December 1998	Bharatiya Janata Party
11	Sheila Dikshit	Delhi	3 December 1998 – Dec 8 2013	INC
12	Uma Bharati	Madhya Pradesh	8 December 2003 – 23 August 2004	Bharatiya Janata Party
13	Vasundhara Raje	Rajasthan	8 December 2003 – 11 December 2008 13 Dec 2013 - Present	Bharatiya Janata Party
14	Mamata Banerjee	West Bengal	20 May 2011 – present	All India Trinamool Congress