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, 15 out of the 28 states and 1 out of the 8 union territories have deputy chief ministers. Out of these 16 states and union territories, Andhra Pradesh has five deputy chief ministers, Karnataka has three deputy chief ministers while Bihar, 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.

Thirteen incumbents belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party, five incumbents belong to the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party and 2 belong to National People's Party. 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
  Janata Dal (United)
  Jannayak Janta Party
  Mizo National Front
  National People's Party
  Nationalist Congress Party
  Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party
  Shiv Sena
  Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party
  N/A (President's rule)
State
(past deputy chief ministers)		 Name Portrait Took office
(tenure length)		 Party Chief Minister Ref
Andhra Pradesh
(list)		 Alla Nani 8 June 2019
(1 year, 231 days)		 YSR Congress Party Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy [2]
Amzath Basha Shaik Bepari
K. Narayana Swamy
Pushpasreevani Pamula
Dharmana Krishna Das 20 July 2020
(189 days)		 [3]
Arunachal Pradesh Chowna Mein 16 July 2016
(4 years, 193 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Pema Khandu [4]
Assam Vacant
Bihar
(list)		 Tarkishore Prasad 16 November 2020
(70 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Nitish Kumar [5]
Renu Devi 16 November 2020
(70 days)		 [6]
Chhattisgarh Vacant
Delhi
(list)		 Manish Sisodia 14 February 2015
(5 years, 346 days)		 Aam Aadmi Party Arvind Kejriwal [7]
Goa
(list)		 Manohar Ajgaonkar 28 March 2019 (1 year, 303 days) Bharatiya Janata Party Pramod Sawant [8]
Chandrakant Kavlekar 14 July 2019 (1 year, 195 days) [9]
Gujarat
(list)		 Nitinbhai Patel 7 August 2016
(4 years, 171 days)		 Vijay Rupani [10]
Haryana
(list)		 Dushyant Chautala 27 October 2019
(1 year, 90 days)		 Jannayak Janta Party Manohar Lal Khattar [11]
Himachal Pradesh Vacant
Jammu and Kashmir
(list)		 Vacant
(President's rule)
Jharkhand
(list)		 Vacant
Karnataka
(list)		 C. N. Ashwath Narayan 26 August 2019
(1 year, 152 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party B. S. Yediyurappa [12]
Govind Karjol
Laxman Savadi
Kerala
(list)		 Vacant
Madhya Pradesh
(list)
Maharashtra
(list)		 Ajit Pawar 30 December 2019
(1 year, 26 days)		 Nationalist Congress Party Uddhav Thackeray [13]
Manipur
(list)		 Yumnam Joykumar Singh 5 July 2020
(204 days)		 National People's Party N. Biren Singh [14]
Meghalaya
(list)		 Prestone Tynsong 6 March 2018
(2 years, 325 days)		 Conrad Sangma [15]
Mizoram Tawnluia 15 December 2018
(2 years, 41 days)		 Mizo National Front Zoramthanga [16]
Nagaland
(list)		 Yanthungo Patton 9 March 2018
(2 years, 322 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Neiphiu Rio [17]
Odisha
(list)		 Vacant
Puducherry
Punjab
(list)
Rajasthan
(list)
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
(list)		 O. Panneerselvam 21 August 2017
(3 years, 157 days)		 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Edappadi K. Palaniswami [18]
Telangana
(list)		 Vacant
Tripura
(list)		 Jishnu Dev Varma 9 March 2018
(2 years, 322 days)		 Bharatiya Janata Party Biplab Kumar Deb [19]
Uttar Pradesh
(list)		 Dinesh Sharma 19 March 2017
(3 years, 312 days)		 Yogi Adityanath [20]
Keshav Prasad Maurya
Uttarakhand Vacant
West Bengal
(list)

See also

References
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  2. Mayabrahma, Roja (2019-06-09). "Andhra Pradesh: Know about the five deputy chief ministers in YS Jagan's cabinet". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  3. "Portfolio allocated to newly appointed ministers in Andhra cabinet". Business World. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  4. Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet Ministers
  7. "Manish Sisodia deputy CM of delhi".
  8. Scroll Staff. "Goa: Manohar Ajgaonkar appointed deputy chief minister days after he quit MGP and joined BJP". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  9. Goa opposition leader Chandrakant Kavlekar Who joined BJP to be made deputy chief minister
  10. "Vijay Rupani named Gujarat chief minister; Nitin Patel to be deputy CM". The Times of India. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  11. Khattar takes oath as Haryana CM, Dushyant Chautala as deputy CM
  12. Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa names three deputy chief ministers
  13. Maharashtra Cabinet Expansion
  14. Manipur Governor reallocates portfolios to deputy chief minister. Jagran (Hindi). Retrieved 6 July 2020.
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  17. "BJP to get deputy cm in Nagaland".
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  20. "UP get two deputy cm".
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