Thedeputy chief minister is a member of thestate government and usually the second highest ranking executive officer of their state's council of ministers. While not aconstitutional office, it seldom carries any specific powers.^[1] A deputy chief minister usually also holds acabinet portfolio such ashome minister orfinance minister. In theparliamentary 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 acoalition government.

Currently, only 16 states and 1 union territory (out of25 states and3 union territories) have deputy chief ministers. Out of these,Bihar,Chhattisgarh,Madhya Pradesh,Maharashtra,Meghalaya,Nagaland,Odisha,Rajasthan andUttar Pradesh have two deputy chief ministers each. No other state and union territory has more than one deputy chief minister in office.

TheBharatiya Janata Party has sixteen incumbents, theIndian National Congress has three, theNational People's Party have two incumbents, theJana Sena Party, theNationalist Congress Party, theNaga People's Front,Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,Shiv Sena and theJammu and Kashmir National Conference has one incumbent each. Of the 25 incumbents, two arewoman —Pravati Parida inOdisha &Diya Kumari inRajasthan. The longest-serving incumbent deputy chief minister isChowna Mein, who has served as the deputy chief minister ofArunachal Pradesh since 17 July 2016 (for 9 years, 129 days). As of 23 November 2025, one state (Uttarakhand) and one union territory (Puducherry) have never had a deputy chief minister.

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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, 164 days)	Janasena Party		N. Chandrababu Naidu		NDA
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	Chowna Mein		16 July 2016 (9 years, 130 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Pema Khandu				[2]
Bihar (list)	Samrat Chaudhary		28 January 2024 (1 year, 299 days)			Nitish Kumar
	Vijay Kumar Sinha
Chhattisgarh (list)	Arun Sao		13 December 2023 (1 year, 345 days)			Vishnu Deo Sai				[3]
	Vijay Sharma
Gujarat (list)	Harsh Sanghavi		17 October 2025 (37 days)			Bhupendrabhai Patel
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Mukesh Agnihotri		11 December 2022 (2 years, 347 days)	Indian National Congress		Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu		INDIA		[4]
Jammu and Kashmir (list)	Surinder Kumar Choudhary		16 October 2024 (1 year, 38 days)	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference		Omar Abdullah
Karnataka (list)	D. K. Shivakumar		20 May 2023 (2 years, 187 days)	Indian National Congress		Siddaramaiah
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Rajendra Shukla		13 December 2023 (1 year, 345 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Mohan Yadav		NDA
	Jagdish Devda
Maharashtra (list)	Eknath Shinde		5 December 2024 (353 days)	Shiv Sena		Devendra Fadnavis				[5]
	Ajit Pawar		2 July 2023 (2 years, 144 days)	Nationalist Congress Party
Meghalaya (list)	Prestone Tynsong		6 March 2018 (7 years, 262 days)	National People's Party		Conrad Sangma				[6]
	Sniawbhalang Dhar		7 March 2023 (2 years, 261 days)
Nagaland (list)	Yanthungo Patton		9 March 2018 (7 years, 259 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Neiphiu Rio				[7]
	T. R. Zeliang		7 March 2023 (2 years, 261 days)	Naga People's Front
Odisha (list)	Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo		12 June 2024 (1 year, 164 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Mohan Charan Majhi
	Pravati Parida
Rajasthan (list)	Diya Kumari		15 December 2023 (1 year, 343 days)			Bhajan Lal Sharma
	Prem Chand Bairwa
Tamil Nadu (list)	Udhayanidhi Stalin		28 September 2024 (1 year, 56 days)	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam		M. K. Stalin		INDIA		[8]
Telangana (list)	Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka		7 December 2023 (1 year, 351 days)	Indian National Congress		Revanth Reddy
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Keshav Prasad Maurya		19 March 2017 (8 years, 249 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Yogi Adityanath		NDA
	Brajesh Pathak		25 March 2022 (3 years, 243 days)

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