List of current Indian deputy chief ministers

The Deputy Chief Minister is a member of the state government and usually the second highest ranking executive officer of their state's council of ministers. 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.

Currently, only 14 states (out of 28 states and 8 union territories) have deputy chief ministers. Out of these, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have two deputy chief ministers each. No other state and union territory has more than one deputy chief minister in office.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has fifteen incumbents, the Indian National Congress has three, the National People's Party have two incumbents, the Jana Sena Party, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party has one incumbent each. Of the 23 incumbents, two are woman — Pravati Parida in Odisha & Diya Kumari in Rajasthan. The longest-serving incumbent Deputy Chief Minister is Chowna Mein, who has served as the Deputy Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh since 17 July 2016 (for 7 years, 336 days). As of 17 June 2024, one state (Uttarakhand) and one union territory (Puducherry) have never had a deputy chief minister.

Current Indian deputy chief ministers

State (past deputy chief ministers)	Name	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Party		Chief Minister		Alliance		Ref
Andhra Pradesh (list)	Pawan Kalyan		12 June 2024 (5 days)	Jana Sena Party		N. Chandrababu Naidu		NDA		[2]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	Chowna Mein		16 July 2016 (7 years, 337 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Pema Khandu				[3]
Bihar (list)	Samrat Chaudhary		28 January 2024 (141 days)			Nitish Kumar
	Vijay Kumar Sinha
Chhattisgarh (list)	Arun Sao		13 December 2023 (187 days)			Vishnu Deo Sai				[4]
	Vijay Sharma
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Mukesh Agnihotri		11 December 2022 (1 year, 189 days)	Indian National Congress		Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu		INDIA		[5]
Karnataka (list)	D. K. Shivakumar		20 May 2023 (1 year, 28 days)			Siddaramaiah
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Rajendra Shukla		13 December 2023 (187 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Mohan Yadav		NDA
	Jagdish Devda
Maharashtra (list)	Devendra Fadnavis		30 June 2022 (1 year, 353 days)			Eknath Shinde				[6]
	Ajit Pawar		2 July 2023 (351 days)	Nationalist Congress Party
Meghalaya (list)	Prestone Tynsong		6 March 2018 (6 years, 103 days)	National People's Party		Conrad Sangma				[7]
	Sniawbhalang Dhar		7 March 2023 (1 year, 102 days)
Nagaland (list)	Yanthungo Patton		9 March 2018 (6 years, 100 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Neiphiu Rio				[8]
	T. R. Zeliang		7 March 2023 (1 year, 102 days)	Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party
Odisha (list)	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo		12 June 2024 (5 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Mohan Charan Majhi
	Pravati Parida
Rajasthan (list)	Diya Kumari		15 December 2023 (185 days)			Bhajan Lal Sharma
	Prem Chand Bairwa
Telangana (list)	Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka		7 December 2023 (193 days)	Indian National Congress		Revanth Reddy		INDIA
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Keshav Prasad Maurya		19 March 2017 (7 years, 90 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Yogi Adityanath		NDA
	Brajesh Pathak		25 March 2022 (2 years, 84 days)							[9]

See also

• List of current Indian chief ministers
• List of longest-serving Indian chief ministers
• List of female deputy chief ministers in India
• List of chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party
• List of chief ministers from the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• List of chief ministers from the Indian National Congress
• List of deputy prime ministers of India

References