List of deputy chief ministers of Delhi

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The Deputy Chief Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the deputy to the Chief Minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, who is head of the government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The deputy chief minister is the second highest ranking member of the National Capital Territory of Delhi Council of Ministers.^[1] A deputy chief minister also holds a cabinet portfolio in the capital territory ministry. In the legislative assembly 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 govern the capital territory with the support of a single party member or to bring political stability and strength within a coalition government, or in times of capital territory emergency, when a proper chain of command is necessary. On multiple occasions, proposals have arisen to make the post permanent, but without result. The same goes for the post of deputy prime minister at the national level.

Since 1952, National Capital Territory of Delhi has had only one deputy chief minister, who belongs to Aam Aadmi Party, its one of the founding members Manish Sisodia is an inaugural and current holder of the office who sworn in two times by winning the 2015^[2] and 2020^[3] assembly elections consecutively.

The current incumbent is Manish Sisodia of the Aam Aadmi Party since 14 February 2015.

List

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)		Elected Constituency	Political PartyTemplate:Efn	Term of office^[4]			Chief Minister		Appointed by
1	File:ManishSisodia (cropped).jpg	Manish Sisodia (1972–)	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;" \|	Patparganj	Aam Aadmi Party	14 February 2015	15 February 2020	Template:Age in years and days	Arvind Kejriwal	rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Party color;" \|	Najeeb Jung
1	File:ManishSisodia (cropped).jpg	Manish Sisodia (1972–)	16 February 2020	Patparganj	Aam Aadmi Party	Incumbent	Anil Baijal	Template:Age in years and days	Arvind Kejriwal

Statistics

List of deputy chief ministers by length of term

Template:Tooltip	Name	Party	Length of term
Template:Tooltip	Name	Party	Longest continuous term	Total years of premiership
1	Manish Sisodia	AAP	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Age in years and days

List by party

Political parties by total time-span of their member holding Deputy CMO (29 July 2026)
Template:Tooltip	Political party	Number of Deputy chief ministers	Total days of holding Deputy CMO
1	Aam Aadmi Party	1	Template:Age in days days

Parties by total duration (in days) of holding Deputy Chief Minister's Office

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Living former deputy chief minister

As of 29 July 2026, there is no living former deputy chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

Notes

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References

↑ Of Deputy Chief Ministers and the Constitution. The Hindu(2012-07-13). Retrieved 7 November 2017.
↑ Kejriwal appointed Delhi Chief Minister and Sisodia Deputy Chief minister The Hindu
↑ Kejriwal to take oath as Delhi's CM for 3rd time and Sisodia as Deputy CM Business Standard
↑ The ordinal number of the term being served by the person specified in the row in the corresponding period

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[dpmconsti-1] Of Deputy Chief Ministers and the Constitution. The Hindu(2012-07-13). Retrieved 7 November 2017.

[2] Kejriwal appointed Delhi Chief Minister and Sisodia Deputy Chief minister The Hindu

[3] Kejriwal to take oath as Delhi's CM for 3rd time and Sisodia as Deputy CM Business Standard

[term-4] The ordinal number of the term being served by the person specified in the row in the corresponding period

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