How many states in india

India comprises 29 States and seven Union Territories. A Chief Minister is an elected head of the local government in a State for a five-year term and can serve unlimited number of terms. Union Territories, unlike States, are directly ruled by the central government. But some Union Territories in India di have a local legislature and a chief minister (such as Delhi or Chandigarh).

Indian States and Ministers:
States (in alphabetical order)	Capital City	Minister – Political party
Andhra Pradesh	Amravathi [*Hyderabad initially]	Chandrababu Naidu
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar	Kalikho Pul
Assam	Dispur	Sarbananda Sonowal (BJP)
Bihar	Patna	Nitish Kumar (JDU)
Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Raman Singh (BJP)
Goa	Panaji	Laxmikant Parsekar (BJP)
Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Vijay Rupani  (BJP)
Haryana	Chandigarh (shared with Punjab)	Manohar Lal Khatter (BJP)
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Virbhadra Singh (Congress)
Jammu & Kashmir	Srinagar (Summer) Jammu (Winter)	Mehbooba Mohammed Sayeed (PDP)
Jharkhand	Ranchi	Raghubar Das (BJP)
Karnataka	Bangalore	Siddaramaiah (Congress)
Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Pinarayi Vijayan (CPM)
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Shivraj Singh Chauhan (BJP)
Maharashtra	Mumbai	Devendra Fadnavis (BJP)
Manipur	Imphal	Okram Ibobi Singh (Congress)
Meghalaya	Shillong	Mukul Sangma (Congress)
Mizoram	Aizawl	Pu Lalthanhawla (Congress)
Nagaland	Kohima	T.R. Zeliang (Nagaland People’s Front)
Odisha (Orissa)	Bhubaneshwar	Naveen Patnaik (BJD)
Punjab	Chandigarh (shared with Haryana)	Parkash Singh Badal (SAD)
Rajasthan	Jaipur	Vasundhara Raje (BJP)
Sikkim	Gangtok	Pawan Chamling (SDF)
Tamil Nadu	Chennai	Jayalalithaa Jayaram (AIADMK)
Telangana (from June 2, 2014)	Hyderabad	K Chandrashekhar Rao (TRS)
Tripura	Agartala	Manik Sarkar (CPM)
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Akhilesh Yadav (SP)
Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Harish Rawat (Congress)
West Bengal	Kolkata	Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool Congress)
Union territory (in alphabetical order)	Capital City	Minister/ Governor – Political party (if applicable)
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Port Blair	Central government rule
Chandigarh	Chandigarh	Mayor - Harphool Chandra Kalyan
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	Silvassa	B.S. Bhalla – IAS Officer
Daman and Diu	Daman	B.S. Bhalla – IAS Officer
Lakshadweep	Kavaratti	Farooq Khan - IPS Officer (BJP member)
Delhi – National Capital Territory	Delhi	Arvind Kejriwal (AAP)
Puducherry (Pondicherry)	Pondicherry	V. Narayanasamy (INC)