List of deputy chief ministers of West Bengal
2nd highest ranking Minister in state government
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The deputy chief minister of West Bengal is the deputy head of Government of West Bengal.[1][2] Agnimitra Paul and Dilip Ghosh are currently serving as the deputy chief ministers of West Bengal in a dual capacity.
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Style
- The Honourable (formal)
- Mr. Deputy Chief Minister (informal)
- His Excellency (diplomatic)
StatusDeputy Leader of the Executive
AbbreviationDCM
| Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal | |
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| Paścimavaṅgera Upa Mukhyamantrī (ISO) | |
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| Style |
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| Type | Deputy head of government |
| Status | Deputy Leader of the Executive |
| Abbreviation | DCM |
| Member of | |
| Reports to | |
| Seat | Writer's Building, Kolkata |
| Nominator | Chief Minister of West Bengal |
| Appointer | Governor of West Bengal by convention on the advice of the Chief Minister |
| Term length | At the confidence of the chief minister Deputy Chief Minister's term is subject to the confidence of the Chief Minister and the Legislative Assembly |
| Inaugural holder | Jyoti Basu |
| Formation | 1 March 1967 |
List
| No. | Portrait | Deputy Chief Ministers (Constituency) |
Party | Term in office | Chief Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Term start | Term end | Duration | Name | Party | ||||
| 1 | .jpg) |
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) |
| 4 |  |
Agnimitra Paul (Asansol Dakshin) |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 9 May 2026 | Incumbent | 0 days | Suvendu Adhikari | Bharatiya Janata Party |
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Dilip Ghosh (Kharagpur Sadar) | |||||||
Statistics
- List of deputy chief ministers by length of term
| No. | Name | Party | 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 | |
| 4 | Agnimitra Paul | BJP | 0 days | 0 days | |
| 5 | Dilip Ghosh | 0 days | 0 days | ||