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Look up Rajasthan's Chief Ministers, Chief Secretaries, police chiefs and High Court Chief Justices. This page also records Jaipur's mayors. Each list starts when that office or government began.

Good to Know

Rajasthan was formed in stages. It was not a single state in 1947. The first unions began in 1948, and Greater Rajasthan was inaugurated in March 1949. Jaipur's mayoral office began with the municipal corporation in 1994. Dates below follow the source linked in each section. Historical lists may use older office titles.

State government

Chief Ministers of Rajasthan

Before the state came together, leaders headed smaller unions. They are shown separately from the Rajasthan Chief Ministers who served from 1949 onward. President's Rule periods are included so the timeline is clear.

Earlier unions, 1948 to 1949

Heads of the earlier Rajasthan unions
LeaderGovernmentStart date
Shobha RamMatsya Sangha17 March 1948
Gokul Lal AsawaRajasthan Sangha23 March 1948
Manikya Lal VermaSanyukta Rajasthan18 April 1948

The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly records these as leaders of earlier governments, not as Chief Ministers of today's state.

Rajasthan governments, 1949 to present

Chief Ministers and President's Rule in Rajasthan
Name or administrationFromTo
Heera Lal Shastri7 April 19495 January 1951
C. S. Venkatachari6 January 195125 April 1951
Jai Narayan Vyas26 April 19513 March 1952
Tika Ram Paliwal3 March 195231 October 1952
Jai Narayan Vyas1 November 195212 November 1954
Mohan Lal Sukhadia13 November 195411 April 1957
Mohan Lal Sukhadia11 April 195711 March 1962
Mohan Lal Sukhadia12 March 196213 March 1967
President's Rule13 March 196726 April 1967
Mohan Lal Sukhadia26 April 19679 July 1971
Barkatullah Khan9 July 197111 October 1973
Hari Dev Joshi11 October 197329 April 1977
President's Rule30 April 197721 June 1977
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat22 June 197716 February 1980
President's Rule17 February 19805 June 1980
Jagannath Pahadia6 June 198013 July 1981
Shiv Charan Mathur14 July 198123 February 1985
Hira Lal Devpura23 February 198510 March 1985
Hari Dev Joshi10 March 198520 January 1988
Shiv Charan Mathur20 January 19884 December 1989
Hari Dev Joshi4 December 19894 March 1990
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat4 March 199015 December 1992
President's Rule15 December 19923 December 1993
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat4 December 19931 December 1998
Ashok Gehlot1 December 19988 December 2003
Vasundhara Raje8 December 200313 December 2008
Ashok Gehlot13 December 200813 December 2013
Vasundhara Raje13 December 201316 December 2018
Ashok Gehlot16 December 201815 December 2023
Bhajan Lal Sharma15 December 2023Current, checked 14 November 2026

Sources: Rajasthan Assembly history of earlier governments, Government of Rajasthan list of former Chief Ministers and Assembly house tenure records.

State administration

Chief Secretaries of Rajasthan

The Chief Secretary leads the state's civil administration. The office began in 1949. The timeline uses year ranges for older entries because a single official archive with every appointment date was not available.

Rajasthan Chief Secretaries, 1949 onward
NameYears in office
K. Radhakrishnan1949-1950
V. Narayanan1950
K. Radhakrishnan1950-1951
S. W. Shiveshvarkar1951-1953
B. G. Rao1953-1954
Krishan Puri1954-1957
K. N. Subramaniyam1957-1958
Bhagwat Singh Mehta1958-1964
Saanwal Dan Ujjwal1964-1965
Bhagwat Singh Mehta1965-1966
K. P. U. Menon1966-1968
R. D. Mathur1968-1969
Zorawar Singh Jhala1969-1971
Sunder Lal Khurana1971-1975
Mohan Mukherjee1975-1977
R. D. Thapar1977
Mohan Mukherjee1977
Gopal Krishna Bhanot1977-1980
Madan Mohan Kishan Wali1980-1984
Anand Mohan Lal1984-1985
Naresh Chandra1985-1986
Vipin Bihari Lal Mathur1986-1992
T. V. Raman1992-1993
Govindji Mishra1993-1994
H. M. Mathur1994
Meetha Lal Mehta1994-1997
Arun Kumar1998-1999
Inderjit Khanna2000-2002
R. K. Nayar2002-2005
Anil Vaish2005-2007
D. C. Samant2007-2009
Kushal Singh2009
T. Srinivasan2009-2010
Salauddin Ahmad2010-2012
C. K. Mathew2012-2013
Rajiv Mehrishi2013-2014
C. S. Rajan2013, acting
C. S. Rajan2014-2016
O. P. Meena2016-2017
Ashok Jain2017
N. C. Goyal2017-2018
D. B. Gupta2018-2020
Rajeeva Swarup2020
Niranjan Kumar Arya2020-2022
Usha Sharma2022-2023
Sudhansh Pant2024-2025
V. Srinivas2025-current

This long-range list is a historical compilation, not a single official roster. For current office details, see the Rajasthan Chief Minister's Office. We corrected the impossible 30 February 2012 date sometimes repeated in secondary lists; C. K. Mathew took charge on 29 February 2012, a leap day.

Police service

Police chiefs and DGPs of Rajasthan

Rajasthan Police began as a unified force in 1949. The first leaders held the rank of Inspector General. The list below follows the state's police-chief sequence, including later Directors General of Police.

Rajasthan Police chiefs, 1949 onward
NameFromTo
R. Banerjee7 April 194930 November 1949
N. C. Mishra1 December 194915 April 1952
K. D. Billmoria16 May 195230 June 1955
B. G. Kanetkar3 September 195530 September 1957
Goverdhan Lal1 October 195726 March 1966
Hanuman Sharma26 March 19667 November 1968
Sultan Singh7 November 196816 February 1974
Ganesh Singh16 February 197431 July 1979
Amar Singh Kochar31 July 19799 February 1981
G. C. Singhvi9 February 198120 January 1983
Raghunath Singh20 January 198326 June 1985
P. C. Mishra26 June 198531 January 1988
G. P. Pilania31 August 198821 December 1989
Rajendra Shekhar23 December 198910 January 1990
M. L. Kalia10 January 199026 December 1990
Rajendra Shekhar27 December 199031 October 1992
V. K. Thanvi31 October 199230 November 1993
K. N. Thakur2 December 199330 April 1995
Kishan Lal30 April 199530 November 1995
Devendra Singh30 November 19956 November 1997
Amitabh Gupta6 November 199730 September 2000
Shantanu Kumar30 September 200030 April 2003
V. K. Hansuka30 April 200331 October 2004
S. N. Jairath31 October 200430 November 2004
A. S. Gill30 November 200431 May 2008
K. S. Bains31 May 20081 March 2009
H. C. Meena1 March 200913 December 2013
Omendra Bhardwaj13 December 201328 February 2015
Manoj Bhatt2 March 201531 July 2017
Ajit Singh1 August 201730 November 2017
Om Prakash Galhotra30 November 201721 December 2018
Kapil Garg21 December 201830 June 2019
Bhupendra Singh30 June 201914 October 2020
Mohan Lal Lather14 October 20203 November 2022
Umesh Mishra3 November 202229 December 2023
Utkal Ranjan Sahoo30 December 202310 June 2025
Ravi Prakash Meharda, acting11 June 202530 June 2025
Rajeev Kumar Sharma3 July 2025Current, checked 14 November 2026

Sources: Rajasthan Police list of its chiefs, Rajasthan Police history, Rajasthan Police Infrastructure Development Corporation chair history and Rajasthan Home Department directory. The old police list still says Umesh Mishra is current; later official records show subsequent appointments.

High Court

Chief Justices of the Rajasthan High Court

The unified Rajasthan High Court opened on 29 August 1949. The list below covers permanent Chief Justices. Acting Chief Justices are not included in this table.

Permanent Chief Justices, 1949 onward
NameFromTo
Kamal Kant Verma29 August 194924 January 1950
Kailas Nath Wanchoo2 January 195110 August 1958
Sarjoo Prasad28 February 195910 October 1961
Jawan Singh Ranawat11 October 196131 May 1963
Durga Shakti Dave1 June 196317 December 1968
Daulat Mal Bhandari18 December 196815 December 1969
Jagat Narayan16 December 196913 February 1973
Bhagwati Prasad Beri14 February 197316 February 1975
Prakash Narayan Shinghal17 February 19755 November 1975
Vedpal Tyagi6 November 197527 December 1977
Closepet Honniah27 April 197822 September 1978
Chand Mal Lodha12 March 19799 July 1980
Kalyan Dutt Sharma7 January 198122 October 1983
Pradyot Kumar Banerjee23 October 198330 September 1985
Dwarka Prasad Gupta12 April 198631 July 1986
Jagdish Sharan Verma1 September 198622 May 1989
Krishna Chandra Agarwal15 April 19907 April 1994
Gokal Chand Mittal12 April 19943 March 1995
A. P. Das Ravani4 April 199510 September 1996
M. Mukherji19 September 199625 December 1997
Shivaraj V. Patil22 January 199914 March 2000
A. R. Lakshmanan29 May 200025 November 2001
Arun Kumar2 December 20012 October 2002
Anil Dev Singh24 December 200222 October 2004
Sachchidanand Jha12 October 200515 June 2007
J. M. Panchal16 September 200711 November 2007
Narayan Roy5 January 200831 January 2009
Deepak Verma6 March 200910 May 2009
Jagadish Bhalla10 August 200931 October 2010
Arun Kumar Mishra26 November 201013 December 2012
Amitava Roy2 January 20135 August 2014
Sunil Ambwani24 March 201522 August 2015
Satish Kumar Mittal5 March 201614 April 2016
Navin Sinha14 May 201616 February 2017
Pradeep Nandrajog2 April 20176 April 2019
S. Ravindra Bhat5 May 201923 September 2019
Indrajit Mahanty6 October 201911 October 2021
Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi12 October 20216 March 2022
Sambhaji Shiwaji Shinde21 June 20221 August 2022
Pankaj Mithal14 October 20225 February 2023
Augustine George Masih30 May 20238 November 2023
Manindra Mohan Shrivastava6 February 202420 July 2025
Kalpathi Rajendran Shriram21 July 202527 September 2025
Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, acting28 September 20256 September 2026
Sanjay K. Agrawal7 September 2026Current, checked 14 November 2026

The High Court's own history confirms the 1949 opening and first Chief Justice. Current details are in the High Court judicial directory. The recent acting appointment is listed by the Rajasthan State Legal Services Authority. The full historic sequence is compiled from a community-edited list; use court records for legal or formal research.

Jaipur city government

Mayors of Jaipur

Jaipur's mayoral office began in 1994. From 2020 to 2025, the city had separate Greater and Heritage corporations, so some terms ran at the same time. The city returned to one corporation before the 2026 election.

Jaipur mayors and acting mayors
MayorCorporationReported term
Mohanlal GuptaJaipur Municipal Corporation1994-1999
Nirmala VermaJaipur Municipal Corporation1999-2001
Sheel Dhabhai, actingJaipur Municipal Corporation2001-2004
Ashok ParnamiJaipur Municipal Corporation2004-2008
Pankaj JoshiJaipur Municipal Corporation2008-2009
Jyoti KhandelwalJaipur Municipal Corporation2009-2014
Nirmal NahataJaipur Municipal Corporation2014-2016
Ashok LahotiJaipur Municipal Corporation2016-2019
Vishnu LataJaipur Municipal Corporation2019-2020
Saumya GurjarJaipur Greater2020-2021
Sheel Dhabhai, actingJaipur Greater2021-2022
Saumya GurjarJaipur Greater2022-2025
Munesh GurjarJaipur Heritage2020-2024
Kusum Yadav, actingJaipur Heritage2024-2025
Sunil KothariJaipur Municipal Corporation25 September 2026-current

The Jaipur Municipal Corporation confirms the current mayor. The historical list is a compilation from reported mayor records; its article has a conflicting total, so the table shows each reported term and identifies overlapping corporations.

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