Border: | parliamentary |
Minister: | not_prime |
Insigniasize: | 120px |
Insigniacaption: | Seal of West Bengal Government |
Post: | Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal |
Incumbent: | Vacant |
Incumbentsince: | 5 November 2000 |
Appointer: | Governor of West Bengal |
Inaugural: | Jyoti Basu |
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.
No. | Deputy Chief Ministers (Constituency) | Portrait | Party | Term in Office | Chief Minister | |||||
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Term Start | Term End | Duration | Name | Party | ||||||
1 | Jyoti Basu | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1 March 1967 | 21 November 1967 | ||||||
25 February 1969 | 16 March 1970 | |||||||||
2 | Bijoy Singh Nahar | Indian National Congress | 2 April 1971 | 28 June 1971 | ||||||
3 | Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 12 January 1999 | 5 November 2000 | Jyoti Basu | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ||||