List of current Indian deputy chief ministers

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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 17 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,Manipur , 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 seventeen incumbents, the Indian National Congress has three, the Naga People's Front and the National People's Party have two incumbents, the Jana Sena Party, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Nationalist Congress Party, Shiv Sena and the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference has one incumbent each. Of the 28 incumbents, four are woman — Sunetra Pawar in Maharashtra, Nemcha Kipgen in Manipur,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 Template:Age in years and days). As of 29 July 2026, one state (Uttarakhand) and one union territory (Puducherry) have never had a deputy chief minister.

Current Indian deputy chief ministers

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Map shows the parties of the incumbent deputy chief ministers of Indian states

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State Template:Small	Portrait	Name	Took office Template:Small	Party		Chief Minister		Alliance		Ref
Andhra Pradesh Template:Small	File:Shri Konidela Pawan Kalyan.jpg	Konidala Pawan Kalyan	12 June 2024 (Template:Age in years and days)	Janasena Party	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	N. Chandrababu Naidu	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	NDA	rowspan="7" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|
Arunachal Pradesh Template:Small	File:Chowna Mein.jpg	Chowna Mein	16 July 2016 (Template:Age in years and days)	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan="6" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Pema Khandu	bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|		^[2]
Bihar Template:Small	File:Samratchoudhary.jpg	Samrat Chaudhary	28 January 2024 (Template:Age in years and days)		Nitish Kumar	rowspan="2" width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|
Bihar Template:Small	File:Shri Vijay Kumar Sinha.jpg	Vijay Kumar Sinha	28 January 2024 (Template:Age in years and days)		Nitish Kumar
Chhattisgarh Template:Small	File:Arun Sao BJP.jpg	Arun Sao	13 December 2023 (Template:Age in years and days)		Vishnu Deo Sai	rowspan="3" width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|	^[3]
Chhattisgarh Template:Small	File:Vijay Sharma BJP.jpg	Vijay Sharma	13 December 2023 (Template:Age in years and days)		Vishnu Deo Sai		^[3]
Gujarat Template:Small	File:Harsh Sanghavi.jpg	Harsh Sanghavi	17 October 2025 (Template:Age in years and days)		Bhupendrabhai Patel
Himachal Pradesh Template:Small	File:Mukesh Agnihotri (cropped).jpg	Mukesh Agnihotri	11 December 2022 (Template:Age in years and days)	Indian National Congress	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	INDIA	rowspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	^[4]
Jammu and Kashmir Template:Small	File:Surinder Kumar Choudhary.jpg	Surinder Kumar Choudhary	16 October 2024 (Template:Age in years and days)	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Omar Abdullah	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|
Karnataka Template:Small	File:D. K. Shivakumar.jpg	D. K. Shivakumar	20 May 2023 (Template:Age in years and days)	Indian National Congress	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Siddaramaiah	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|
Madhya Pradesh (list)	File:DCM Rajendra Sukula.jpeg	Rajendra Shukla	Template:Dts (Template:Ayd)	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Mohan Yadav	rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	NDA	rowspan="14" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|
Madhya Pradesh (list)	File:DCM Jagdish Dewda.jpeg	Jagdish Devda	Template:Dts (Template:Ayd)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Mohan Yadav
Maharashtra Template:Small	File:Shri Eknath Sambhaji Shinde.jpg	Eknath Shinde	5 December 2024 (Template:Age in years and days)	Shiv Sena	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Devendra Fadnavis	rowspan=2 width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|		^[5]
Maharashtra Template:Small		Sunetra Pawar	31 January 2026 (Template:Age in years and days)	Nationalist Congress Party	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Devendra Fadnavis			^[5]
Manipur Template:Small		Nemcha Kipgen	4 February 2026 (Template:Age in years and days)	Bharatiya Janata Party	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Y. Khemchand Singh	rowspan=2 width="4px" style="background-color: Template:Party color"\|
Manipur Template:Small		Losii Dikho	4 February 2026 (Template:Age in years and days)	Naga People's Front	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Y. Khemchand Singh
Meghalaya Template:Small	File:A delegation from North Eastern States led by the Minister General Administration Home (Civil Defence And Home Guards) Public Health Engineering Relief And Rehabilitation (cropped).jpg	Prestone Tynsong	6 March 2018 (Template:Age in years and days)	National People's Party	rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Conrad Sangma	rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|		^[6]
Meghalaya Template:Small	File:DCM Sniawbhalang Dhar.jpg	Sniawbhalang Dhar	7 March 2023 (Template:Age in years and days)	National People's Party		Conrad Sangma
Nagaland Template:Small	File:The Nagaland Home Minister, Shri Yanthungo Patton meeting the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, in New Delhi on November 09, 2016 (cropped).jpg	Yanthungo Patton	9 March 2018 (Template:Age in years and days)	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan="1" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Neiphiu Rio	rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|		^[7]
Nagaland Template:Small	File:The Chief Minister of Nagaland, Shri T.R. Zeliang meeting the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Smt. Smriti Irani, in New Delhi on December 08, 2015 (1) (cropped).jpg	T. R. Zeliang	7 March 2023 (Template:Age in years and days)	Naga People's Front	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Neiphiu Rio
Odisha Template:Small	File:Dy CM KV Singh Deo.jpg	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo	12 June 2024 (Template:Age in years and days)	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Mohan Charan Majhi	rowspan="4" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|
Odisha Template:Small	File:Pravati Parida in 2025.jpg	Pravati Parida	12 June 2024 (Template:Age in years and days)			Mohan Charan Majhi
	File:Prem Chand Bairwa (cropped).jpg	Prem Chand Bairwa
Rajasthan Template:Small		Diya Kumari	Template:Dts (Template:Ayd)		Bhajan Lal Sharma
Tamil Nadu Template:Small	File:Udhaya.jpg	Udhayanidhi Stalin	28 September 2024 (Template:Age in years and days)	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	M. K. Stalin	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	INDIA	rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color" \|	^[8]
Telangana Template:Small	File:Portrait of Telangana Deputy CM Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu (4 July 2024).png	Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka	7 December 2023 (Template:Age in years and days)	Indian National Congress	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Revanth Reddy	bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	INDIA
Uttar Pradesh Template:Small	Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya (cropped) Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya (cropped)	Keshav Prasad Maurya	19 March 2017 (Template:Age in years and days)	Bharatiya Janata Party	rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Yogi Adityanath	rowspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	NDA	rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|
Uttar Pradesh Template:Small	Brajesh Pathak	Brajesh Pathak	25 March 2022 (Template:Age in years and days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Yogi Adityanath		NDA

References

↑ Of Deputy Chief Ministers and the Constitution. The Hindu(13 July 2012). Retrieved 7 November 2017.
↑ Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet Ministers
↑ Chhattisgarh likely to have two Deputy CMS, Raman Singh as Speaker: Report(10 December 2023).
↑ Congress turns the page in Himachal: Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is CM(10 December 2022).
↑ Maharashtra Cabinet Expansion
↑ Prestone Tysong.
↑ BJP to get deputy cm in Nagaland. The Times of India(6 March 2018).
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↑ Sindhi Punjabi society congratulates Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak.

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[dpmconsti-1] Of Deputy Chief Ministers and the Constitution. The Hindu(13 July 2012). Retrieved 7 November 2017.

[2] Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet Ministers

[3] Chhattisgarh likely to have two Deputy CMS, Raman Singh as Speaker: Report(10 December 2023).

[4] Congress turns the page in Himachal: Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is CM(10 December 2022).

[5] Maharashtra Cabinet Expansion

[6] Prestone Tysong.

[7] BJP to get deputy cm in Nagaland. The Times of India(6 March 2018).

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[9] Sindhi Punjabi society congratulates Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak.

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