Post: | Deputy Chief Minister |
Body: | Jammu and Kashmir |
Insignia: | Government of Jammu and Kashmir.svg |
Insigniasize: | 150px |
Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Jammu and Kashmir |
Incumbent: | Surinder Kumar Choudhary |
Incumbentsince: | 16 October 2024[1] |
Department: | Government of Jammu and Kashmir |
Type: | Deputy Head of Government |
Status: | Deputy Leader of the Executive |
Seat: | Civil Secretariat Jammu, Old Heritage City, Jammu and Kashmir |
Appointer: | Lt. Governor of Jammu and Kashmir on the advice of the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir |
Reportsto: | |
Inaugural: | Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad |
Abbreviation: | Dy CM |
Termlength: | At the confidence of the assembly |
Termlength Qualified: | Deputy Chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits. |
Nominator: | Members of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly |
Website: | Official website |
The Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir is the title given to the deputy head of government of Jammu and Kashmir. The state was reconstituted by the government of India as the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir on 31 October 2019.
Keys:
Sr. no. | Photo | Name | Took office | Left office | Duration | Political party | |||
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Deputy Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||
1 | Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad | 5 March 1948 | 9 August 1953 | Jammu & Kashmir National Conference | |||||
Deputy Chief Ministers of the State of Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||
2 | Mirza Afzal Beg | 1974 | 1977 | Jammu & Kashmir National Conference | |||||
3 | Devi Das Thakur | 2 July 1984 | 6 March 1986 | Jammu & Kashmir National Conference | |||||
4 | Mangat Ram Sharma | 2 November 2002 | 2 November 2005 | Indian National Congress | |||||
5 | Muzaffar Hussain Baig | 2 November 2005 | 11 July 2008 | Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party | |||||
6 | Tara Chand | 5 January 2009 | 24 December 2014 | Indian National Congress | |||||
7 | Nirmal Kumar Singh | 1 March 2015 | 6 January 2016 | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||
4 April 2016 | 29 April 2018 | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||||
8 | Kavinder Gupta | 30 April 2018 | 19 June 2018 | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||
Deputy Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir | |||||||||
9 | Surinder Kumar Choudhary | 16 October 2024 | Incumbent | bgcolor= | Jammu & Kashmir National Conference |