The Deputy Chief Minister of the Punjab is a member of the Cabinet of Punjab Government in the

Government of Punjab, India The Government of Punjab, also known as the State Government of Punjab or locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Punjab and its 23 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor ...

. Not a

constitutional A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these princip ...

office, it seldom carries any specific powers. A deputy chief minister usually also holds a cabinet portfolio such as home minister or finance minister. In the

parliamentary system A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ...

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 A coalition government is a form of government in which political parties cooperate to form a government. The usual reason for such an arrangement is that no single party has achieved an absolute majority after an election, an atypical outcome in ...

or in a party.

History

PEPSU

In history of PEPSU state there was only one deputy chief minister

Brish Bhan Babu Brish Bhan was a freedom fighter and the last Chief Minister and one and only deputy chief minister of PEPSU. He completed his law from Law College Lahore in 1932. In 1951 and then in 1954 he became the deputy chief minister under the ch ...

Punjab

Till now three people served as Deputy CM of

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

Balram Das Tandon Balram Das Tandon (1 November 1927 – 14 August 2018) was an Indian politician and the Former Governor of Chhattisgarh. In his adulthood for some years he was a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and a leader of Bharatiya Jan ...

was the first who hold the position when

Bhartiya Jana Sangh The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS or JS, short name: Jan Sangh, full name: Akhil Bharatiya Jana Sangh; ) (ISO 15919: '' Akhila Bhāratīya Jana Saṅgha '' ) was an Indian right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the pol ...

formed coalition government with

Akali Dal – Sant Fateh Singh Akali may refer to: * In the context of Sikhism, "Akali" ("pertaining to Akal or the Supreme Power", "divine") may refer to: ** any member of the Khalsa, i.e. the collective body of baptized Sikhs ** a member of the Akali movement (1919-1925) ** a ...

under the chief ministership of

Gurnam Singh Gurnam Singh (25 February 1899 – 31 May 1973) was an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Punjab from 8 March 1967 to 25 November 1967, and again between 17 February 1969 to 27 March 1970. He was the first Shiromani Akali Dal Ch ...

. Then in 2004 former Chief Minister

Rajinder Kaur Bhattal Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (born 30 September 1945) is an Indian politician and member of Indian National Congress, Congress who served as the 14th List of Chief Ministers of Punjab (India), Chief Minister of Punjab from 1996 to 1997 and 2nd List o ...

became the Deputy CM under chief ministership of

Amarinder Singh Captain Amarinder Singh (born 11 March 1942), is an Indian politician, military historian, former royal and Indian Army veteran who served as the 15th Chief Minister of Punjab. A former Member of the Legislative Assembly, Punjab and Member ...

Sukhbir Singh Badal Sukhbir Singh Badal (born 9 July 1962) is an Indian politician and the president of Shiromani Akali Dal, and is currently a member of Parliament from the Firozpur. He served as Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab from 2009 to 2017. He is the son of ...

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 Om Parkash Soni is an Indian politician and Former Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab who belongs to the Indian National Congress. He is a member of Punjab Legislative Assembly represents Amritsar Central. He is also a Cabinet Minister in the gov ...

appointed deputy cm under Charanjit Singh Channi.

List of Deputy Chief Ministers

PEPSU

Punjab

References

{{Deputy Chief Ministers of Indian states Deputy chief ministers of Punjab, India

Lists of people from Punjab, India

History

PEPSU

Punjab

List of Deputy Chief Ministers

PEPSU

Punjab

See also

References