List of deputy chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh

Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Seal of Uttar Pradesh
Incumbent Keshav Prasad Maurya (since 19 March 2017) and Brajesh Pathak (since 25 March 2022)
Deputy Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh
Style	The Honourable
Status	Deputy Head of Government
Abbreviation	DCM
Member of	Uttar Pradesh Legislature Uttar Pradesh Council of Ministers
Seat	Lok Bhavan, Lucknow
Nominator	Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Appointer	Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Term length	At the confidence of the assembly 5 years and is subject to no term limits. [1]
Inaugural holder	Narain Singh
Formation	26 January 1950 (75 years ago) (1950-01-26)

The deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh is a member of the Cabinet of Uttar Pradesh Government in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. Not a constitutional office, it seldom carries any specific powers. ^[2] 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. The post of deputy chief minister is a kind of informal post, which is not mentioned in the Constitution. It works like an ordinary cabinet minister. The appointment of deputy chief minister is done by the ruling party only to maintain balance in the political situation. There is no fixed number for the post of deputy chief minister, in any state it can be made two, three or even more. For example, in 1998, Madhya Pradesh had two deputy chief ministers, Subhash Yadav and Jamuna Devi, under Chief Minister Digvijay Singh. Similarly, after the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, two deputy chief ministers Dinesh Sharma and Keshav Prasad Maurya were appointed under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to correct the electoral equations. Babu Narain Singh Gurjar was first deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. ^[3]

List of deputy chief ministers

No	Portrait	Name	Constituency	Term of office			Assembly (Election)	Chief Minister	Party
1		Narain Singh	Morna	3 April 1967	25 February 1968	328 days	4th (1967 election)	Charan Singh	Independent
2		Ram Chandra Vikal	Sikandrabad
3		Ram Prakash Gupta	MLC						Bharatiya Jana Sangh
4		Kamalapati Tripathi	Chandauli	26 February 1969	17 February 1970	356 days	5th (1969 election)	Chandra Bhanu Gupta	Indian National Congress
5		Naresh Agarwal	Hardoi	21 February 1998	23 February 1998	2 days	13th (1996 election)	Jagdambika Pal	Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress
6		Dinesh Sharma	MLC	19 March 2017	25 March 2022	5 years, 6 days	17th (2017 election)	Yogi Adityanath	Bharatiya Janata Party
		Keshav Prasad Maurya	MLC	19 March 2017	Incumbent	8 years, 73 days
18th (2022 election)
	7		Brajesh Pathak	Lucknow Cantonment	25 March 2022	Incumbent	3 years, 67 days

Statistics

List of deputy chief ministers by length of term

No.	Name	Party		Length of term
				Longest continuous term	Total years of deputy chief ministership
1	Keshav Prasad Maurya		BJP	8 years, 73 days	8 years, 73 days
2	Dinesh Sharma		BJP	5 years, 6 days	5 years, 6 days
3	Brajesh Pathak		BJP	3 years, 67 days	3 years, 67 days
4	Kamalapati Tripathi		INC	356 days	356 days
5	Narain Singh		Independent	328 days	328 days
6	Ram Chandra Vikal		Independent	328 days	328 days
7	Ram Prakash Gupta		BJS	328 days	328 days
8	Naresh Agarwal		ABLC	2 days	2 days

See also

• List of current Indian deputy chief ministers

References

1. Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN   978-81-8038-559-9. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Uttar Pradesh as well.
2. Rajendran, S. (13 July 2012). "Of Deputy Chief Ministers and the Constitution". The Hindu. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
3. "SP wooing Gurjars ahead of Lok Sabha polls | Lucknow News - Times of India". The Times of India .