List of deputy chief ministers of West Bengal

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Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal
Incumbent
Vacant
since 5 November 2000
Appointer Governor of West Bengal
Inaugural holder Jyoti Basu
FormationMarch 1, 1967;57 years ago (1967-03-01)

The deputy chief minister of West Bengal is the deputy head of Government of West Bengal. [1] [2] The seat is now vacant since 5 November 2000 after former deputy chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. In today's current government, there is no deputy chief minister in West Bengal.

List

No.Deputy Chief Ministers
(Constituency)		PortraitPartyTerm in officeChief Minister
Term startTerm endDurationNameParty
1 Jyoti Basu
(Baranagar) 		Jyoti Basu 006 (cropped).jpg Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1 March 196721 November 1967265 days Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee Bangla Congress
25 February 196916 March 19701 year, 19 days
2 Bijoy Singh Nahar
(Bowbazar) 		Indian National Congress 2 April 197128 June 197187 days
3 Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
(Jadavpur) 		The Chief Minister of West Bengal Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, addressing at the 52nd National Development Council Meeting at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on December 9, 2006.jpg Communist Party of India (Marxist) 12 January 19995 November 20001 year, 298 days Jyoti Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 to the specific case of West Bengal as well.
  2. ↑ "States of India since 1947" . Retrieved 6 November 2017.
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