| Post: | Deputy Chief Minister |
| Body: | Telangana |
| Native Name: | తెలంగాణ ఉప ముఖ్యమంత్రి Telugu: Telaṅgāṇa Upa Mukhyamantri |
| Status: | Deputy Head of the Government |
| Insigniasize: | 200px |
| Insigniacaption: | Emblem of Telangana |
| Flagsize: | 210px |
| Flagcaption: | Emblem of Telangana |
| Flagborder: | yes |
| Incumbent: | Mallu Bhatti Vikaramarka |
| Nominator: | Chief Minister of Telangana |
| Appointer: | Governor of Telangana |
The deputy chief minister of Telangana is the deputy to the chief minister of Telangana, who is head of the government of Telangana. The deputy chief minister is the second highest ranking member of the Telangana Council of Ministers.[1] A deputy chief minister also holds a cabinet portfolio in the state ministry. In the legislative assembly 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 govern the state with the support of a single party member or to bring political stability and strength within a coalition government, or in times of state emergency, when a proper chain of command is necessary. On multiple occasions, proposals have arisen to make the post permanent, but without result. The same goes for the post of deputy prime minister at the national level.
The first deputy chief minister of Telangana was Mahmood Ali,[2] who was also Minister of Revenue, Relief & Rehabilitation, ULC, Stamps & Registration in Chandrashekar Rao's first ministry. The second deputy chief minister was T. Rajaiah,[3] who took on the role in addition to his health ministership in K. Chandrashekar Rao's government. On 25 January 2015, the chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao dismissed Rajaiah in the wake of serious charges of corruption in his department and soon that day position of Rajaiah was replaced by Kadiyam Srihari[4] and he became the third deputy chief minister of the state.
The current Deputy Chief Minister is Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka. He assumed the office on 7th December 2023.
| No. | Portrait | Name | Elected Constituency | Political Party | Term of office[5] | Chief Minister | Governor | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M. Mahmood Ali | Member of the State Legislative Council | Bharat Rashtra Samithi | 2 June 2014 | 12 December 2018 | K. Chandrashekar Rao | E. S. L. Narasimhan | |||||
| 2 | T. Rajaiah | Ghanpur (Station) | 2 June 2014 | 25 January 2015 | ||||||||
| 3 | Kadiyam Srihari | Member of the State Legislative Council | 25 January 2015 | 12 December 2018 | ||||||||
| 4 | Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka | Madhira | Indian National Congress | 7 December 2023 | Incumbent | Anumula Revanth Reddy | Tamilisai Soundararajan (7 December 2023 - 18 March 2024), C. P. Radhakrishnan (20 March 2024 - 30 July 2024), Jishnu Dev Varma (31 July 2024 - present) | |||||
| data-sort-type=number rowspan = "2" | Name | Party | Length of term | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longest continuous term | Total years of premiership | |||||
| data-sort-value="1" | 1 | M. Mohamood Ali | TRS | |||
| data-sort-value="2" | 2 | T. Rajaiah | TRS | |||
| data-sort-value="3" | 3 | Kadiyam Srihari | TRS | |||
| data-sort-value="4" | 4 | Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu | INC | |||
| data-sort-type=number | Political party | data-sort-type=number | Number of Deputy chief ministers | Total days of holding Deputy CMO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="1" | 1 | Bharat Rashtra Samithi | data-sort-type=3 | 3 | days |
| 2 | Indian National Congress | data-sort-type=3 | 1 | days |