| Border: | parliamentary |
| Minister: | not_prime |
| Post: | Deputy Chief Minister |
| Incumbent: | Vacant |
| Incumbentsince: | 16 March 2022 |
| Inaugural: | Balram Das Tandon |
| Appointer: | Governor of Punjab |
| Nominator: | Chief Minister of Punjab |
| Memberof: | Cabinet of Punjab Government |
| Body: | the Punjab |
The Deputy Chief Minister of the Punjab is a member of the Cabinet of Punjab Government in the Government of Punjab, India. Not a constitutional office, it seldom carries any specific powers.[1] A deputy chief minister usually also holds a cabinet portfolio such as home minister or finance minister. In the parliamentary system of government, the Chief Minister is treated as the "first among equals" in the cabinet; the position of deputy chief minister is used to bring political stability and strength within a coalition government or in a party.
In history of PEPSU state there was only one deputy chief minister Brish Bhan.
Till now three people served as Deputy CM of Punjab. Balram Das Tandon was the first who hold the position when Bhartiya Jana Sangh formed coalition government with Akali Dal – Sant Fateh Singh under the chief ministership of Gurnam Singh. Then in 2004 former Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal became the Deputy CM under chief ministership of Amarinder Singh. Sukhbir Singh Badal is the only one who served the position for thrice. In 2021 for the first time two persons, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Om Parkash Soni appointed deputy cm under Charanjit Singh Channi.
| Sr. No. | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political Party | Chief Minister | Appointed by | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brish Bhan | 23 May 1951 | 21 April 1952 | 1 year, 275 days | Indian National Congress | Raghbir Singh | Yadavindra Singh | ||
| 8 March 1954 | 12 January 1955 | ||||||||
| Sr. No. | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political Party | Chief Minister | Appointed by | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balram Das Tandon | 17 February 1969 | 26 March 1970 | bgcolor= | Bhartiya Jana Sangh | Gurnam Singh | D. C. Pavate | [2] | |||
| No official Deputy CM (26 March 1970 - 6 June 2004) | |||||||||||
| 2 | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | 6 January 2004 | 1 March 2007 | Indian National Congress | Captain Amarinder Singh | O. P. Verma | [3] | ||||
| No official Deputy CM (1 March 2007 - 21 January 2009) | |||||||||||
| 3 | Sukhbir Singh Badal | 21 January 2009 | 1 July 2009 | Shiromani Akali Dal | Prakash Singh Badal | S. F. Rodrigues | [4] [5] | ||||
| No official Deputy CM (1 July 2009 - 10 August 2009) | |||||||||||
| (3) | Sukhbir Singh Badal | 10 August 2009 | 14 March 2012 | Shiromani Akali Dal | Prakash Singh Badal | S. F. Rodrigues | [6] | ||||
| 14 March 2012 | 16 March 2017 | Shivraj Patil | [7] | ||||||||
| No official Deputy CM (16 March 2017 - 20 September 2021) | |||||||||||
| 4 | Sukhjinder Singh | 20 September 2021 | 16 March 2022 | Indian National Congress | Charanjit Singh Channi | Banwarilal Purohit | [8] | ||||
| Om Parkash Soni | |||||||||||
| No official Deputy CM (since 16 March 2022) | |||||||||||