| Insignia: | Seal of Uttar Pradesh.png |
| Insigniasize: | 120px |
| Insigniacaption: | Seal of Uttar Pradesh |
| Post: | Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
| Incumbent: | Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak |
| Department: | Deputy Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh |
| Appointer: | Governor of Uttar Pradesh |
| Nominator: | Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
| Style: | The Honourable |
| Status: | Deputy Head of Government |
| Abbreviation: | DCM |
| Member Of: | |
| Termlength: | At the confidence of the assembly |
| Termlength Qualified: | 5 years and is subject to no term limits.[1] |
| Inaugural: | Narain Singh |
| Seat: | Lok Bhavan, Lucknow |
The Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh is a member of the Cabinet of Uttar Pradesh Government in the Government of Uttar Pradesh. Not a constitutional office, it seldom carries any specific powers.[2] 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. The post of Deputy Chief Minister is a kind of informal post, which is not mentioned in the Constitution. It works like an ordinary cabinet minister. The appointment of Deputy Chief Minister is done by the ruling party only to maintain balance in the political situation. There is no fixed number for the post of Deputy Chief Minister, in any state it can be made two, three or even more. For example, in 1998, Madhya Pradesh had two deputy chief ministers, Subhash Yadav and Jamuna Devi, under Chief Minister Digvijay Singh. Similarly, after the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, two Deputy Chief Ministers Dinesh Sharma and Keshav Prasad Maurya were appointed under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to correct the electoral equations. Babu Narain Singh Gurjar was first Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.[3]
| No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Assembly | Chief Minister | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morna | 3 April 1967 | 25 February 1968 | 4th | Charan Singh | |||||
| 2 | Ram Chandra Vikal | Sikandrabad | ||||||||
| 3 | Ram Prakash Gupta | MLC | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |||||||
| 4 | Kamalapati Tripathi | Chandauli | 26 February 1969 | 17 February 1970 | 5th (1969 election) | Chandra Bhanu Gupta | Indian National Congress | |||
| 5 | MLC | 19 March 2017 | 25 March 2022 | 17th | Yogi Adityanath | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||
| 6 | Keshav Prasad Maurya | MLC | 19 March 2017 | Incumbent | ||||||
| 18th (2022 election) | ||||||||||
| 7 | Brajesh Pathak | Lucknow Cantonment | 25 March 2022 | Incumbent | ||||||