Mamata to take oath as CM today: A look at all 16 women CMs India has had till date

Updated: Friday, May 27, 2016, 11:56 [IST]

Kolkata, May 27: Mamata Banerjee will take oath as the chief minister of West Bengal on Friday (May 27) for the second consecutive time. She is among a few women leaders who have succeeded to win two consecutive terms. Only Sheila Dikshit in Delhi and J Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu have won the second consecutive time after serving a complete term. Dikshit, in fact, won three consecutive terms between 1998 and 2013. [Bangladesh PM gifts Mamata 20-kg Hilsa]

India currently has five women chief ministers besides Banerjee and Jayalalithaa and they are: Mehbooba Mufti (Jammu & Kashmir), Anandiben Patel (Gujarat) and Vasundhara Raje (Rajasthan).

Here is a list of 16 women chief ministers that India has seen since Independence:

LIST OF WOMEN CHIEF MINISTERS IN INDIA TILL DATE
Name	State	Tenure time
Sucheta Kripalini (Congress)	Uttar Pradesh	1963-67
Nandini Satpathy (Congress)	Odisha	1972-73; 19734-76
Shashikala Kakodkar (Maharashtra Gomantak Party)	Goa	1973-79
Syeda Anwara Taimur (Congress)	Assam	1980-81
Janaki Ramachandran (AIADMK)	Tamil Nadu	1988
J Jayalalithaa (AIADMK)	Tamil Nadu	1991-96; 2001; 2002-06; 2011-15; 2015-present
Mayawati (BSP)	Uttar Pradesh	1995, 1997, 2002-03; 2007-12
Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (Congress)	Punjab	1996-97
Rabri Devi (RJD)	Bihar	1997-99; 1999-2000; 2000-05
Sushma Swaraj (BJP)	Delhi	1998
Sheila Dikshit (Congress)	Delhi	1998-2013
Uma Bharati (BJP)	Madhya Pradesh	2003-04
Vasundhara Raje (BJP)	Rajasthan	2003-08; 2013-present
Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool)	West Bengal	2011-present
Anandiben Patel (BJP)	Gujarat	2014-present
Mehbooba Mufti (PDP)	Jammu & Kashmir	2016-present