List of deputy chief ministers of West Bengal

Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal পশ্চিমবঙ্গের উপমুখ্যমন্ত্রী
Incumbent Vacant since 5 November 2000
Appointer	Governor of West Bengal
Inaugural holder	Jyoti Basu
Formation	March 1, 1967;58 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)	Portrait	Party		Term in office			Chief Minister
					Term start	Term end	Duration	Name	Party
1	Jyoti Basu (Baranagar)			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1 March 1967	21 November 1967	265 days	Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee				Bangla Congress
25 February 1969	16 March 1970	1 year, 19 days
2	Bijoy Singh Nahar (Bowbazar)			Indian National Congress	2 April 1971	28 June 1971	87 days
3	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Jadavpur)			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	12 January 1999	5 November 2000	1 year, 298 days	Jyoti Basu		Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee		CPI(M)	1 year, 298 days	1 year, 298 days
2	Jyoti Basu		CPI(M)	1 year, 19 days	1 year, 283 days
3	Bijoy Singh Nahar		INC	87 days	87 days

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.