Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
Incumbent
O. Panneerselvam
since 21 August 2017
Appointer Governor of Tamil Nadu
Inaugural holder M. K. Stalin
Formation 29 May 2009

Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is an optional post and is second in command to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The first person to hold the office of Deputy Chief Minister was M. K. Stalin, who took office on 29 May 2009 and left on 15 May 2011. The Chief Minister during that time was M. Karunanidhi.[1][2]

M. Karunanidhi, the then-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, underwent a spinal cord surgery in 2009, which made him wheel-chair bounded. He was unable to concentrate on many of the departments from his portfolio due to his health condition, so he decided to allocate some departments to his son, M. K. Stalin, who also held the post of Local Administration Minister in his cabinet, thus resulting in the creation of the post of Deputy Chief Minister for the first time in Tamil Nadu. But Karunanidhi held the responsibility of Home Department himself.

On 21 August 2017, the rebel faction under former chief minister O. Panneerselvam and the ruling faction of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam decided to merge back into one, as a result O. Panneerselvam was sworn in as the 2nd Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

List of Deputy Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu

No. Name Portrait Took office Left office Political Party Chief Minister
1M. K. Stalin 29 May 2009 15 May 2011 DMK M. Karunanidhi
Post abolished
2O. Panneerselvam 21 August 2017 Incumbent AIADMK Edappadi K. Palaniswami

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