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 14 states (out of 28 states and 8 union territories) have deputy chief ministers. Out of these, Andhra Pradesh has five deputy chief ministers while Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, 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 thirteen incumbents, the YSR Congress Party has five, the Indian National Congress has three, the National People's Party have two incumbents and the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Jananayak Janata Party have one incumbent each. Of the twenty five incumbents, only one is a woman — 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 7 years, 200 days). As of 2 February 2024, one state (Uttarakhand) and one union territory (Puducherry) have never had a deputy chief minister.

Current Indian deputy chief ministers

State (past deputy chief ministers)	Name	Portrait	Took office (tenure length)	Party		Chief Minister		Alliance		Ref
Andhra Pradesh (list)	Amzath Basha Shaik Bepari		8 June 2019 (4 years, 239 days)	YSR Congress Party		Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy		None		[2]
	K. Narayana Swamy
	Budi Mutyala Naidu		11 April 2022 (1 year, 297 days)
	Kottu Satyanarayana
	Rajanna Dora Peedika									[3]
Arunachal Pradesh (list)	Chowna Mein		16 July 2016 (7 years, 201 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Pema Khandu		NDA		[4]
Bihar (list)	Samrat Chaudhary		28 January 2024 (5 days)			Nitish Kumar
	Vijay Kumar Sinha
Chhattisgarh (list)	Arun Sao		13 December 2023 (51 days)			Vishnu Deo Sai				[5]
	Vijay Sharma
Haryana (list)	Dushyant Chautala		27 October 2019 (4 years, 98 days)	Jannayak Janta Party		Manohar Lal Khattar				[6]
Himachal Pradesh (list)	Mukesh Agnihotri		11 December 2022 (1 year, 53 days)	Indian National Congress		Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu		INDIA		[7]
Karnataka (list)	D. K. Shivakumar		20 May 2023 (258 days)	Indian National Congress		Siddaramaiah
Madhya Pradesh (list)	Rajendra Shukla		13 December 2023 (51 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Mohan Yadav		NDA
	Jagdish Devda
Maharashtra (list)	Devendra Fadnavis		30 June 2022 (1 year, 217 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Eknath Shinde				[8]
	Ajit Pawar		2 July 2023 (215 days)	Nationalist Congress Party
Meghalaya (list)	Prestone Tynsong		6 March 2018 (5 years, 333 days)	National People's Party		Conrad Sangma				[9]
	Sniawbhalang Dhar		7 March 2023 (332 days)
Nagaland (list)	Yanthungo Patton		9 March 2018 (5 years, 330 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Neiphiu Rio				[10]
	T. R. Zeliang		7 March 2023 (332 days)	Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party
Rajasthan (list)	Diya Kumari		15 December 2023 (49 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Bhajan Lal Sharma
	Prem Chand Bairwa
Telangana (list)	Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka		7 December 2023 (57 days)	Indian National Congress		Revanth Reddy		INDIA
Uttar Pradesh (list)	Keshav Prasad Maurya		19 March 2017 (6 years, 320 days)	Bharatiya Janata Party		Yogi Adityanath		NDA		[11]
	Brajesh Pathak		25 March 2022 (1 year, 314 days)							[12]