The Grand Alliance government fell in bihar just two days ago and a new nda coalition government was formed. Two bharatiya janata party leaders Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Sinha took oath as Deputy Chief Ministers. In this way, there are now a total of 26 Deputy Chief Ministers in 14 states of India. The highest number is in Andhra Pradesh. Here five leaders have been given the post of Deputy Chief Minister. In some states there are 2 Deputy Chief Ministers and in some states there are 1 Deputy CM.
The strange thing is that nowhere in the Constitution it is said that it is mandatory to have the post of deputy chief minister or Deputy prime minister in any state. Not only this, nothing has been said about these posts in the Constitution. In such a situation, the question arises that when there is no mention of this post in the Constitution, then why is there a race to make deputy cm in all the states?
There is no mention of the post of deputy cm in the country's constitution.
Supreme court advocate Virag Gupta said, there is a provision in the Constitution of the country in Article 164 regarding the Chief Ministers and Ministers of the states. But nothing has been said about the Deputy Chief Minister. Even this post is not mentioned anywhere. He further said that the deputy chief minister of a state can look only at the department or ministry given by the CM. Not only this, the salary, other allowances and facilities of the deputy chief minister equal to that of a cabinet Minister. He told that the post of deputy chief minister started after the creation of the post of Deputy Prime Minister.
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