List of deputy chief ministers of Telangana

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The Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana is the deputy to the Chief Minister of Telangana, who is head of the government of Telangana. The deputy chief minister is the second highest ranking member of the Telangana Council of Ministers.^[1] A deputy chief minister also holds a cabinet portfolio in the state 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 state with the support of a single party member or to bring political stability and strength within a coalition government, or in times of state 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.

The first deputy chief minister of Telangana was M. Mohamood Ali,^[2] who was also Minister of Revenue, Relief & Rehabilitation, ULC, Stamps & Registration in Chandrashekar Rao's first ministry. The second deputy chief minister was T. Rajaiah,^[3] who took on the role in addition to his health ministership in K. Chandrashekar Rao's government. On 25 January 2015, the chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao dismissed Rajaiah in the wake of serious charges of corruption in his department and soon that day position of Rajaiah was replaced by Kadiyam Srihari^[4] and he became the third deputy chief minister of the state.

The current government does not have a deputy chief minister and the post has been vacant since 13 December 2018.

List

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)		Elected Constituency	Political PartyTemplate:Efn	Term of office^[5]			Chief Minister		Appointed by
1	Error creating thumbnail:	M. Mohamood Ali (1952–)	rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color;" \|	Member of the State Legislative Council	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	2 June 2014	12 December 2018	Template:Age in years and days	K. Chandrashekar Rao	rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color;" \|	E. S. L. Narasimhan
2	Error creating thumbnail:	T. Rajaiah (1965–)	Ghanpur (Station)	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	2 June 2014	25 January 2015	Template:Age in years and days
3	Error creating thumbnail:	Kadiyam Srihari (1952–)	Member of the State Legislative Council	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	25 January 2015	12 December 2018	Template:Age in years and days
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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	M. Mohamood Ali	TRS	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Age in years and days
2	T. Rajaiah	TRS	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Age in years and days
3	Kadiyam Srihari	TRS	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Age in years and days

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List by party

Political parties by total time-span of their member holding Deputy CMO (30 July 2026)
Template:Tooltip	Political party	Number of Deputy chief ministers	Total days of holding Deputy CMO
1	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	3	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 ministers

As of 30 July 2026, there are three living former deputy chief ministers of Telangana:

Living former deputy chief ministers
M. Mohamood Ali
(2014–2018)
1952-03-03 (age 74)
T. Rajaiah
(2014–2015)
1965-07-12 (age 61)
Kadiyam Srihari
(2015–2018)
1952-07-08 (age 74)

Notes

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References

↑ Of Deputy Chief Ministers and the Constitution. The Hindu(2012-07-13). Retrieved 7 November 2017.
↑ KCR keeps his promise; Mehmood Ali becomes first Deputy CM of Telangana. Two Circles.
↑ Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Rajaiah sacked(2015-01-25).
↑ Kodiyam Srikari: As EDUCATION MINISTER & DEPUTY CM
↑ 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] KCR keeps his promise; Mehmood Ali becomes first Deputy CM of Telangana. Two Circles.

[3] Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Rajaiah sacked(2015-01-25).

[4] Kodiyam Srikari: As EDUCATION MINISTER & DEPUTY CM

[term-5] The ordinal number of the term being served by the person specified in the row in the corresponding period

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List of deputy chief ministers of Telangana

Contents

List

Statistics

Living former deputy chief ministers

See also

Notes

References