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. 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.
| Deputy Chief Minister | |
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| Type | Deputy Head of the State Government |
| Abbreviation | DYCM |
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| Nominator | Governor of Respective States and Union Territories of India |
Currently, only 16 states and 1 union territory (out of 25 states and 3 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 sixteen incumbents, the Indian National Congress has three, the National People's Party have two incumbents, the Jana Sena Party, the Nationalist Congress Party, the Naga People's Front, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Shiv Sena and the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference has one incumbent each. Of the 25 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 9 years, 153 days). As of 17 December 2025, one state (Uttarakhand) and one union territory (Puducherry) have never had a deputy chief minister.
Current Indian deputy chief ministers
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Bharatiya Janata Party Indian National Congress Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Janata Dal (United) Telugu Desam Party National People's Party Nationalist Congress Party Naga People's Front Shiv Sena Janasena Party |
| State (past deputy chief ministers) | Name | Portrait | Took office (tenure length) | Party | Chief Minister | Alliance | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh (list) | Konidala Pawan Kalyan | 12 June 2024 (1 year, 188 days) | Janasena Party | N. Chandrababu Naidu | NDA | |||||
| Arunachal Pradesh (list) | Chowna Mein | 16 July 2016 (9 years, 154 days) | Bharatiya Janata Party | Pema Khandu | ||||||
| Bihar (list) | Samrat Chaudhary | 28 January 2024 (1 year, 323 days) | Nitish Kumar | |||||||
| Vijay Kumar Sinha | ||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh (list) | Arun Sao | 13 December 2023 (2 years, 4 days) | Vishnu Deo Sai | |||||||
| Vijay Sharma | ||||||||||
| Gujarat (list) | Harsh Sanghavi | 17 October 2025 (61 days) | Bhupendrabhai Patel | |||||||
| Himachal Pradesh (list) | Mukesh Agnihotri | 11 December 2022 (3 years, 6 days) | Indian National Congress | Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu | INDIA | |||||
| Jammu and Kashmir (list) | Surinder Kumar Choudhary | 16 October 2024 (1 year, 62 days) | Jammu and Kashmir National Conference | Omar Abdullah | ||||||
| Karnataka (list) | D. K. Shivakumar | 20 May 2023 (2 years, 211 days) | Indian National Congress | Siddaramaiah | ||||||
| Madhya Pradesh (list) | Rajendra Shukla | 13 December 2023 (2 years, 4 days) | Bharatiya Janata Party | Mohan Yadav | NDA | |||||
| Jagdish Devda | ||||||||||
| Maharashtra (list) | Eknath Shinde | 5 December 2024 (1 year, 12 days) | Shiv Sena | Devendra Fadnavis | ||||||
| Ajit Pawar | 2 July 2023 (2 years, 168 days) | Nationalist Congress Party | ||||||||
| Meghalaya (list) | Prestone Tynsong | 6 March 2018 (7 years, 286 days) | National People's Party | Conrad Sangma | ||||||
| Sniawbhalang Dhar | 7 March 2023 (2 years, 285 days) | |||||||||
| Nagaland (list) | Yanthungo Patton | 9 March 2018 (7 years, 283 days) | Bharatiya Janata Party | Neiphiu Rio | ||||||
| T. R. Zeliang | 7 March 2023 (2 years, 285 days) | Naga People's Front | ||||||||
| Odisha (list) | Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo | 12 June 2024 (1 year, 188 days) | Bharatiya Janata Party | Mohan Charan Majhi | ||||||
| Pravati Parida | ||||||||||
| Rajasthan (list) | Diya Kumari | 15 December 2023 (2 years, 2 days) | Bhajan Lal Sharma | |||||||
| Prem Chand Bairwa | ||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu (list) | Udhayanidhi Stalin | 28 September 2024 (1 year, 80 days) | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | M. K. Stalin | INDIA | |||||
| Telangana (list) | Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka | 7 December 2023 (2 years, 10 days) | Indian National Congress | Revanth Reddy | ||||||
| Uttar Pradesh (list) | Keshav Prasad Maurya | 19 March 2017 (8 years, 273 days) | Bharatiya Janata Party | Yogi Adityanath | NDA | |||||
| Brajesh Pathak | 25 March 2022 (3 years, 267 days) | |||||||||
See also
- List of current Indian governors
- List of current Indian lieutenant governors and administrators
- List of current Indian chief ministers
- List of current Indian legislative speakers and chairpersons
- List of current Indian opposition leaders
- List of current Indian chief justices
- List of female deputy chief ministers in India
- List of deputy prime ministers of India
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