| Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal | |
|---|---|
Incumbent Vacant since 5 November 2000 | |
| Abbreviation | DCM |
| Appointer | Governor of West Bengal |
| Inaugural holder | Jyoti Basu |
| Formation | March 1, 1967 |
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[edit | edit source]
| No. | Deputy Chief Ministers (Constituency) |
Portrait | Party | Term in office | Chief Minister | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Term start | Term end | Duration | Name | Party | ||||||
| 1 | Jyoti Basu (Baranagar) |
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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[edit | edit source]
- 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 | |
See more[edit | edit source]
List of chief ministers of West Bengal
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "States of India since 1947". Retrieved 6 November 2017.
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