List of current Indian deputy chief ministers

The Deputy Chief Minister is a member of the state government. While not a constitutional office, it seldom carries any specific powers.[1] A deputy chief minister usually also holds a cabinet portfolio such as home minister or finance minister. In the parliamentary system of government, the Chief Minister is treated as the "first among equals" in the cabinet; the position of deputy chief minister is used to bring political stability and strength within a coalition government.

Current ruling parties in India
  BJP (12)
  Coalition with BJP (6)
  INC (4)
  Coalition with INC (2)
  Other parties (AAP, AITC, BJD, CPI(M) TRS and YSRCP) (6)
  President's rule (1)
  No legislature (5)

Currently, 16 out of the 28 states and 1 out of 8 union territories have deputy chief ministers. Out of these 17 deputy chief ministers, Andhra Pradesh has five deputy chief ministers, Karnataka has three deputy chief ministers while Uttar Pradesh and Goa have two deputy chief ministers each. No other states and union territories have more than one deputy chief minister in office.

Twelve incumbents belong to the BJP and five incumbents belong to the YSRCP. No other party has more than one deputy chief minister in office.

Current Indian deputy chief ministers
Colour key for parties
  Aam Aadmi Party
  All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
  Bharatiya Janata Party
  Indian National Congress
  Jannayak Janta Party
  Mizo National Front
  Nationalist Congress Party
  National People's Party
  Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party
State
(past deputy chief ministers)		 Name Portrait Took office
(tenure length)		 Party Ref
Andhra Pradesh
(list)		 Alla Nani 8 June 2019
(1 year, 17 days)		 YSR Congress Party [2]
Amzath Basha Shaik Bepari
K. Narayana Swamy
Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose
Pushpasreevani Pamula
Arunachal Pradesh Chowna Mein 16 July 2016
(3 years, 345 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [3]
Assam Vacant
Bihar
(list)		 Sushil Kumar Modi 27 July 2017
(2 years, 334 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [4]
Chhattisgarh Vacant
Delhi
(list)		 Manish Sisodia 14 February 2015
(5 years, 132 days)		 Aam Aadmi Party [5]
Goa
(list)		 Manohar Ajgaonkar 28 March 2019 (1 year, 89 days) Bharatiya Janata Party [6]
Chandrakant Kavlekar 14 July 2019 (347 days) [7]
Gujarat
(list)		 Nitinbhai Patel 7 August 2016
(3 years, 323 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [8]
Haryana
(list)		 Dushyant Chautala 27 October 2019
(242 days)		 Jannayak Janta Party [9]
Himachal Pradesh Vacant
Jammu and Kashmir
(list)		 Vacant
(President's rule)
Jharkhand
(list)		 Vacant
Karnataka
(list)		 C. N. Ashwath Narayan 26 August 2019
(304 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [10]
Govind Karjol
Laxman Savadi
Kerala
(list)		 Vacant
Madhya Pradesh
(list)		 Vacant
Maharashtra
(list)		 Ajit Pawar 30 December 2019
(178 days)		 Nationalist Congress Party [11]
Manipur
(list)		 Vacant
Meghalaya
(list)		 Prestone Tynsong 6 March 2018
(2 years, 111 days)		 National People's Party [12]
Mizoram Tawnluia 15 December 2018
(1 year, 193 days)		 Mizo National Front [13]
Nagaland
(list)		 Yanthungo Patton 9 March 2018
(2 years, 108 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [14]
Odisha
(list)		 Vacant
Puducherry Vacant
Punjab
(list)		 Vacant
Rajasthan
(list)		 Sachin Pilot 17 December 2018
(1 year, 191 days)		 Indian National Congress [15]
Sikkim Vacant
Tamil Nadu
(list)		 O. Panneerselvam 21 August 2017
(2 years, 309 days)		 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam [16]
Telangana
(list)		 Vacant
Tripura
(list)		 Jishnu Dev Varma 9 March 2018
(2 years, 108 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [17]
Uttar Pradesh
(list)		 Dinesh Sharma 19 March 2017
(3 years, 98 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party [18]
Keshav Prasad Maurya
Uttarakhand Vacant
West Bengal Vacant

See also

References
  1. "Of Deputy Chief Ministers and the Constitution". Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  2. Know about 5 Deputy Chief Ministers in YS jagan's cabinet
  3. Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet Ministers
  4. "Sushil modi appointed deputy CM of Bihar".
  5. "Manish Sisodia deputy CM of delhi".
  6. Manohar Ajgaonkar appointed deputy chief minister days after he quit MGP and joined BJP
  7. Goa opposition leader Chandrakant Kavlekar Who joined BJP to be made deputy chief minister
  8. "Vijay Rupani named Gujarat chief minister; Nitin Patel to be deputy CM". The Times of India. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  9. Khattar takes oath as Haryana CM, Dushyant Chautala as deputy CM
  10. Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa names three deputy chief ministers
  11. Maharashtra Cabinet Expansion
  12. "Prestone Tysong".
  13. "mizoram.nic.in".
  14. "BJP to get deputy cm in Nagaland".
  15. "Gehlot CM and Pilot deputy CM".
  16. "panneerselvam appointed deputy cm".
  17. "Dev Varma appointed deputy CM".
  18. "UP get two deputy cm".
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