Deputy prime Minister
- Not related to any article so this is a Non constitutional post
- Deputy PM sworn as general minister
- Deputy PM do not receive any right of the PM
- Deputy PM became only when the PM feels that the workload is more on him
- The position of the deputy PM in Centre government is same as the deputy CM in state government that is, the post of deputy CM is also Non constitutional
The deputy PM declaration give him the cabinet
Who is Deputy Prime Minister of India?
The current government does not have a Deputy Prime Minister.
Only 7 people had become Deputy PM in India, till now
- Sardar Patel- 15 August 1947 – 15 December 1950 )
- Morarji Desai -21st March 1967 -6 December 1969
- Jagjivan Ram- 24 March 1977- 28 July 1979
- Chaudhary Charan Singh -24 March 1977 – 28 July 1979
- Y. V. Chauhan -28 July- 1979 14 Jan 1980
- Chaudhary Devi Lal –(2 December 1989- 1st August 1990) &(11 November 1990- 21st Jan 1991)
- Lal Krishna Advani -5 Feb 2002 -22 May 2004
- Morarji Desai has been the only PM whose tenure has 2-2 Deputy (Jagjivan Ram and Chaudhary Charan Singh)
- Chaudhary Devi Lal is the only Deputy PM who has worked in 2 separate PM.
- V.P. Singh
- Chandrashekha
- In India, till now there are two people who had worked as both PM and Deputy PM
- Morarji Desai
- Charan Singh
- Name of the PM’s at the time of deputy PM’s
- Sardar Patel- J.L.Nehru
- Morarji Desai- Indira Gandhi
- Jagjivan Ram- Morarji Desai
- Chaudhary Charan Singh – Morarji Desai
- Y. V. Chauhan -Chaudhary Charan Singh
- Chaudhary Devi Lal- Vishwanath Pratap and Chandrashekhar
Lal Krishna Advani -A.B. Vajpayee
- Among 14 pm, 6 are awarded by Bharat Ratna
- J.L. Nehru – 1955
- L.B. Shastri- 1966
- Indira Gandhi -1971
- Rajiv Gandhi -1991
- Morarji Desai -1991
- A.B. Vajpayee -2015