Before Adityanath, Kalyan Singh, Ram Prakash Gupta and

Rajnath Singh of BJP have served as UP chief minister.

Kalyan Singh, now Rajasthan Governor, held the high office twice.

Like him, CB Gupta, Charan Singh, ND Tewari, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati too have served as chief minister more than once.

Mayawati has the distinction of holding the post four times, while Mulayam was CM thrice.

Mayawati and the outgoing chief minister Akhilesh Yadav have the credit of completing a full five-year term.

Interestingly, the BSP supremo also has the distinction of serving for the shortest term of four months when she first took over the reins in 1995.

In the Congress era of 1960s and 70s , the state had witnessed stalwarts of the likes of GB Pant, Sampurnanad, CB Gupta, Sucheta Kriplani, TN Singh, Kamalapati Tripathi, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, VP Singh, Sripati Misra and Vir Bahadur Singh holding the highest office.

Of them CB Gupta became chief minister three times.

Charan Singh, Ram Naresh Yadav and Banarsi Das served as non-Congress chief ministers with Yadav and Das holding reins of the state during the Janata Party rule.

Charan Singh, who served as CM twice, represented Bhartiya Kranti Dal.

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