The Minister of Home Affairs (or simply, the Home Minister, short-form HM) is the head of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India. One of the senior-most officers in the Union Cabinet, the chief responsibility of the home minister is the maintenance of the internal security of India; the country's large police force comes under its jurisdiction. Occasionally, they are assisted by the Minister of State of Home Affairs and the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of Home Affairs.
| Minister of Home Affairs | |
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| Gr̥ha-Mantrī | |
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| Ministry of Home Affairs | |
| Abbreviation | MHA |
| Member of | Cabinet of India Cabinet Committee on Security |
| Reports to | President of India Prime Minister of India Parliament of India |
| Appointer | President of India on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of India |
| Formation | 1947 |
| First holder | Vallabhbhai Patel |
| Deputy | Minister of State for Home Affairs |
Ever since the time of independent India's first Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the office has been seen as second in seniority only to the Prime Minister in the union cabinet. Like Patel, several Home Ministers have since held the additional portfolio of Deputy Prime Minister. As of February 2020, three Home Ministers have gone on to become the Prime Minister: Lal Bahadur Shastri, Charan Singh and P. V. Narasimha Rao. L.K. Advani, serving from 19 March 1998 to 22 May 2004, has held the office of the Home Minister for the longest continuous period, as of February 2020.
On several occasions, the Prime Minister also held the additional portfolio of the Minister of Home Affairs. Jawaharlal Nehru briefly acted as home minister in 1950 following the demise of Vallabhbhai Patel, Indira Gandhi briefly served as home minister in 1966 following resignation of Gulzarilal Nanda, Morarji Desai held the portfolio from 1978 till 1979, Chandra Shekhar throughout his prime ministerial tenure and H. D. Deve Gowda briefly served as home minister in 1996.
P. Chidambaram who served as the home minister from 2008 till 2012 has the rare distinction of serving as both cabinet minister and minister of state in the ministry. He served as minister of state from 1986 till 1989. The current minister is Amit Shah of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has been in office since 31 May 2019 and succeeded his party colleague Rajnath Singh as the home minister.
Cabinet Ministers[1] edit
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| No. | Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Period | |||||||
| 1 | .jpg) | Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950) MCA for Bombay (Deputy Prime Minister) | 15 August 1947 | 12 December 1950[†] | 1 year, 119 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I | Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| – |  | Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for United Provinces (Prime Minister) | 12 December 1950 | 26 December 1950 | 14 days | ||||
| 2 |  | C. Rajagopalachari (1878–1972) Unelected | 26 December 1950 | 5 November 1951 | 314 days | ||||
| 3 |  | Kailash Nath Katju (1887–1968) MP for Mandsaur | 5 November 1951 | 13 May 1952 | 3 years, 66 days | ||||
| 13 May 1952 | 10 January 1955 | Nehru II | |||||||
| 4 |  | Govind Ballabh Pant (1887–1961) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh | 10 January 1955 | 17 April 1957 | 6 years, 56 days | ||||
| 17 April 1957 | 7 March 1961[†] | Nehru III | |||||||
| 5 | .jpg) | Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad | 26 February 1961 | 10 April 1962 | 2 years, 187 days | ||||
| 2 April 1962 | 1 September 1963 | Nehru IV | |||||||
| 6 |  | Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha | 1 September 1963 | 27 May 1964 | 3 years, 69 days | ||||
| 27 May 1964 | 9 June 1964 | Nanda I | Self (acting) | ||||||
| 9 June 1964 | 11 January 1966 | Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | ||||||
| 11 January 1966 | 24 January 1966 | Nanda II | Self (acting) | ||||||
| 24 January 1966 | 9 November 1966 | Indira I | Indira Gandhi | ||||||
| – |  | Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh (Prime Minister) | 9 November 1966 | 13 November 1966 | 4 days | ||||
| 7 |  | Yashwantrao Chavan (1913–1984) MP for Nashik | 13 November 1966 | 13 March 1967 | 3 years, 226 days | ||||
| 13 March 1967 | 27 June 1970 | Indian National Congress (R) | Indira II | ||||||
| – | | Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli (Prime Minister) | 27 June 1970 | 13 March 1971 | 2 years, 223 days | ||||
| 13 March 1971 | 5 February 1973 | Indira III | |||||||
| 8 | Uma Shankar Dikshit (1901–1991) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh | 5 February 1973 | 10 October 1974 | 1 year, 247 days | |||||
| 9 |  | Kasu Brahmananda Reddy (1909–1994) Rajya Sabha MP for Andhra Pradesh | 10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | 2 years, 165 days | ||||
| 10 | .jpg) | Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat | 24 March 1977 | 1 July 1978 | 1 year, 99 days | Janata Party | Desai | Morarji Desai | |
| – | .jpg) | Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat (Prime Minister) | 1 July 1978 | 24 January 1979 | 207 days | ||||
| 11 | Hirubhai M. Patel (1904–1993) MP for Sabarkantha | 24 January 1979 | 28 July 1979 | 185 days | |||||
| (7) | | Yashwantrao Chavan (1913–1984) MP for Satara (Deputy Prime Minister) | 28 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 170 days | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan Singh | Charan Singh | |
| 12 | .png) | Zail Singh (1916–1994) MP for Hoshiarpur | 14 January 1980 | 22 June 1982 | 2 years, 159 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Indira IV | Indira Gandhi | |
| 13 |  | Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910–2009) MP for Chennai South | 22 June 1982 | 2 September 1982 | 72 days | ||||
| 14 |  | Prakash Chandra Sethi (1919–1996) MP for Indore | 2 September 1982 | 19 July 1984 | 1 year, 321 days | ||||
| 15 | (2).jpg) | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Hanamkonda | 19 July 1984 | 31 October 1984 | 165 days | ||||
| 31 October 1984 | 31 December 1984 | Rajiv I | Rajiv Gandhi | ||||||
| 16 | .jpg) | Shankarrao Chavan (1920–2004) MP for Nanded | 31 December 1984 | 12 March 1986 | 1 year, 71 days | Rajiv II | |||
| (15) | | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Hanamkonda | 12 March 1986 | 12 May 1986 | 61 days | ||||
| 17 | _(cropped).jpg) | Buta Singh (1934–2021) MP for Jalore | 12 May 1986 | 2 December 1989 | 3 years, 204 days | ||||
| 18 |  | Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (1936–2016) MP for Muzaffarnagar | 2 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | 1 year, 8 days | Janata Dal | Vishwanath | V. P. Singh | |
| – |  | Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia (Prime Minister) | 10 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | 223 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Chandra Shekhar | |
| (17) | | Shankarrao Chavan (1920–2004) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra | 21 June 1991 | 16 May 1996 | 4 years, 330 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |
| 19 |  | Murli Manohar Joshi (born 1934) MP for Allahabad | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | 16 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee I | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| – |  | H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) Unelected (Prime Minister) | 1 June 1996 | 29 June 1996 | 28 days | Janata Dal | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | |
| 20 |  | Indrajit Gupta (1919–2001) MP for Midnapore | 29 June 1996 | 21 April 1997 | 1 year, 263 days | Communist Party of India | |||
| 21 April 1997 | 19 March 1998 | Gujral | Inder Kumar Gujral | ||||||
| 21 |  | L. K. Advani (born 1927) MP for Gandhinagar (Deputy Prime Minister from 29 June 2002) | 19 March 1998 | 13 October 1999 | 6 years, 64 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 13 October 1999 | 22 May 2004 | Vajpayee III | |||||||
| 22 |  | Shivraj Patil (born 1935) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra | 23 May 2004 | 30 November 2008 | 4 years, 191 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | |
| 23 |  | P. Chidambaram (born 1945) MP for Sivaganga | 30 November 2008 | 22 May 2009 | 3 years, 244 days | ||||
| 23 May 2009 | 31 July 2012 | Manmohan II | |||||||
| 24 |  | Sushilkumar Shinde (born 1941) MP for Solapur | 31 July 2012 | 26 May 2014 | 1 year, 299 days | ||||
| 25 | .jpg) | Rajnath Singh (born 1951) MP for Lucknow | 27 May 2014 | 30 May 2019 | 5 years, 3 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |
| 26 |  | Amit Shah (born 1964) MP for Gandhinagar | 31 May 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 358 days | Modi II | |||
Ministers of State edit
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| No. | Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
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| From | To | Period | |||||||
| 1 | Rustom Khurshedji Sidhwa (1882–1957) | 11 October 1951 | 13 May 1952 | 215 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I | Jawaharlal Nehru | ||
| 2 | B. N. Datar (1894–1963) MP for Belgaum | 14 February 1956 | 17 April 1957 | 6 years, 364 days | Nehru II | ||||
| 17 April 1957 | 10 April 1962 | Nehru III | |||||||
| 16 April 1962 | 13 February 1963 | Nehru IV | |||||||
| 3 |  | Ramchandra Martand Hajarnavis (1908–1976) MP for Bhandara | 22 February 1963 | 10 March 1964 | 1 year, 17 days | ||||
| 4 |  | Jaisukhlal Hathi (1909–1982) MP for Gujarat (Rajya Sabha) | 10 March 1964 | 27 May 1964 | 2 years, 248 days | ||||
| 27 May 1964 | 9 June 1964 | Nanda I | Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) | ||||||
| 9 June 1964 | 11 January 1966 | Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | ||||||
| 11 January 1966 | 24 January 1966 | Nanda II | Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) | ||||||
| 24 January 1966 | 13 November 1966 | Indira I | Indira Gandhi | ||||||
| 5 | .jpg) | Vidya Charan Shukla (1929–2013) MP for Mahasamund | 13 March 1967 | 27 June 1970 | 3 years, 106 days | ||||
| 6 | .jpg) | Ram Niwas Mirdha (1924–2010) MP for Rajasthan (Rajya Sabha) (Personnel and Administrative Reforms) | 27 June 1970 | 18 March 1971 | 264 days | ||||
| 7 | .jpg) | K. C. Pant (1931–2012) MP for Nainital | 27 June 1970 | 18 March 1971 | 3 years, 135 days | ||||
| 18 March 1971 | 9 November 1973 | Indira II | |||||||
| 8 | Om Mehta (1927–1995) MP for Jammu and Kashmir (Personnel and Administrative Reforms) | 10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | 2 years, 165 days | |||||
| 9 | S. D. Patil MP for Erandol | 14 August 1977 | 28 July 1979 | 1 year, 348 days | Janata Party | Desai | Morarji Desai | ||
| 10 | Dhanik Lal Mandal (1932–2022) MP for Jhanjharpur | 14 August 1977 | 15 July 1979 | 2 years, 153 days | |||||
| 30 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan Singh | Charan Singh | |||||
| 11 | Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (1921–1993) MP for Nandyal | 14 January 1980 | 31 October 1984 | 4 years, 291 days | Indian National Congress | Indira III | Indira Gandhi | ||
| 12 | Yogendra Makwana (born 1933) MP for Gujarat (Rajya Sabha) | 14 January 1980 | 15 January 1982 | 2 years, 1 day | |||||
| 13 | Nihar Ranjan Laskar (born 1932) MP for Karimganj | 15 January 1982 | 7 February 1984 | 2 years, 23 days | |||||
| 14 |  | Ram Dulari Sinha (1922–1994) MP for Sheohar | 7 February 1984 | 31 October 1984 | 267 days | ||||
| (11) | Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (1921–1993) MP for Nandyal | 4 November 1984 | 31 December 1984 | 57 days | Rajiv I | Rajiv Gandhi | |||
| (14) | | Ram Dulari Sinha (1922–1994) MP for Sheohar | 4 November 1984 | 31 December 1984 | 325 days | ||||
| 31 December 1984 | 25 September 1985 | Rajiv II | |||||||
| 15 |  | Arif Mohammad Khan (born 1951) MP for Bahraich | 12 August 1985 | 25 September 1986 | 44 days | ||||
| 16 |  | P. A. Sangma (1947–2016) MP for Tura (States) | 25 September 1985 | 20 January 1986 | 117 days | ||||
| 17 | Arun Nehru (1944–2013) MP for Raebareli (Internal Security) | ||||||||
| (6) | | Ram Niwas Mirdha (1924–2010) MP for Rajasthan (Rajya Sabha) | 14 March 1986 | 14 June 1986 | 0 days | ||||
| 18 | .jpg) | Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 1949) MP for Washim (States) | 12 May 1986 | 22 October 1986 | 163 days | ||||
| 19 | | P. Chidambaram (born 1945) MP for Sivaganga | 24 June 1986 | 2 December 1989 | 3 years, 161 days | ||||
| 20 |  | Chintamani Panigrahi (1922–2000) MP for Bhubaneswar | 22 October 1986 | 25 June 1988 | 1 year, 247 days | ||||
| 21 | .jpg) | Santosh Mohan Dev (1934–2017) MP for Silchar (Internal Security) | 25 June 1988 | 2 December 1989 | 1 year, 160 days | ||||
| 22 |  | Subodh Kant Sahay (born 1951) MP for Ranchi | 23 April 1990 | 5 November 1990 | 196 days | Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | V. P. Singh | |
| 21 November 1990 | 21 June 1991 | 228 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Chandra Shekhar | ||||
| 23 |  | M. M. Jacob (1926–2018) MP for Kerala (Rajya Sabha) | 21 June 1991 | 17 January 1993 | 1 year, 210 days | Indian National Congress | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |
| 24 |  | Rajesh Pilot (1945–2000) MP for Dausa (Internal Security) | 18 January 1993 | 15 September 1995 | 2 years, 240 days | ||||
| 25 |  | P. M. Sayeed (1941–2005) MP for Lakshadweep | 19 January 1993 | 2 years, 239 days | |||||
| 26 | .jpg) | Syed Sibtey Razi (1939–2022) MP for Uttar Pradesh (Rajya Sabha) | 15 September 1995 | 16 May 1996 | 244 days | ||||
| 27 | Ram Lal Rahi (1934–2020) MP for Misrikh | ||||||||
| 28 | Meijinlung Kamson (born 1939) MP for Outer Manipur | ||||||||
| 29 | .jpg) | Mohammed Taslimuddin (1943–2017) MP for Kishanganj | 1 June 1996 | 9 June 1996 | 8 days | Janata Dal | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | |
| 30 | Maqbool Dar (1943–2008) MP for Anantnag | 10 July 1996 | 21 April 1997 | 285 days | |||||
| 1 May 1997 | 19 March 1998 | 322 days | Gujral | Inder Kumar Gujral | |||||
| 31 |  | Ram Naik (born 1934) MP for Mumbai North | 5 May 1999 | 13 October 1999 | 161 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 32 |  | I. D. Swami (1929–2019) MP for Karnal | 13 October 1999 | 22 May 2004 | 4 years, 222 days | Vajpayee III | |||
| 33 | .png) | C. Vidyasagar Rao (born 1941) MP for Karimnagar | 13 October 1999 | 29 January 2003 | 3 years, 108 days | ||||
| 34 |  | Harin Pathak (born 1947) MP for Ahmedabad East | 29 January 2003 | 22 May 2004 | 1 year, 114 days | ||||
| 35 | .jpg) | Chinmayanand Swami (born 1947) MP for Jaunpur | 24 May 2003 | 22 May 2004 | 364 days | ||||
| 36 | .jpg) | Manikrao Hodlya Gavit (1934–2022) MP for Nandurbar | 23 May 2004 | 6 April 2007 | 2 years, 318 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | |
| 37 | .jpg) | Shriprakash Jaiswal (born 1944) MP for Kanpur | 23 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 | 4 years, 364 days | ||||
| 38 | .jpg) | S. Regupathy (born 1950) MP for Pudukkottai | 23 May 2004 | 15 May 2007 | 2 years, 357 days | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |||
| 38 | .jpg) | V. Radhika Selvi (born 1976) MP for Tiruchendur | 18 May 2007 | 22 May 2009 | 2 years, 4 days | ||||
| 39 | .jpg) | Shakeel Ahmad (born 1956) MP for Madhubani | 6 April 2008 | 22 May 2009 | 1 year, 46 days | Indian National Congress | |||
| 40 |  | Mullappally Ramachandran (born 1944) MP for Vatakara | 29 May 2009 | 26 May 2014 | 4 years, 362 days | Manmohan II | |||
| 41 | .jpg) | Ajay Maken (born 1964) MP for New Delhi | 29 May 2009 | 19 January 2011 | 1 year, 235 days | ||||
| 42 |  | Gurudas Kamat (1954–2018) MP for Mumbai North West | 19 January 2011 | 12 July 2011 | 174 days | ||||
| 43 |  | Jitendra Singh (born 1971) MP for Alwar | 12 July 2011 | 28 October 2012 | 1 year, 108 days | ||||
| 44 | .jpg) | R. P. N. Singh (born 1964) MP for Kushi Nagar | 28 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 | 1 year, 210 days | ||||
| 45 | .jpg) | Kiren Rijiju (born 1971) MP for Arunachal West | 26 May 2014 | 30 May 2019 | 5 years, 4 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | |
| 46 |  | Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary (born 1954) MP for Banaskantha | 9 November 2014 | 5 July 2016 | 1 year, 239 days | ||||
| 47 |  | Hansraj Gangaram Ahir (born 1954) MP for Chandrapur | 5 July 2016 | 30 May 2019 | 2 years, 329 days | ||||
| 48 |  | G. Kishan Reddy (born 1964) MP for Secunderabad | 31 May 2019 | 7 July 2021 | 2 years, 37 days | Modi II | |||
| 49 | .jpg) | Nityanand Rai (born 1966) MP for Ujiarpur | 31 May 2019 | Incumbent | 4 years, 358 days | ||||
| 50 | .jpg) | Ajay Mishra Teni (born 1960) MP for Kheri | 7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 321 days | ||||
| 51 |  | Nisith Pramanik (born 1986) MP for Cooch Behar | |||||||
Deputy Ministers edit
| No. | Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency | Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Period | |||||||
| 1 | B. N. Datar (1894–1963) MP for Belgaum North | 12 August 1952 | 14 February 1956 | 3 years, 186 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru II | Jawaharlal Nehru | ||
| 2 | .jpg) | Violet Alva (1909–1969) MP for Bombay (Rajya Sabha) | 23 April 1957 | 10 April 1962 | 4 years, 352 days | Nehru III | |||
| 3 |  | Maragatham Chandrasekar (1917–2001) MP for Sriperumbudur | 8 May 1962 | 27 May 1964 | 2 years, 19 days | Nehru IV | |||
| 4 |  | Lalit Narayan Mishra (1923–1975) MP for Bihar (Rajya Sabha) | 26 February 1964 | 27 May 1964 | 91 days | ||||
| (3) | | Maragatham Chandrasekar (1917–2001) MP for Sriperumbudur | 27 May 1964 | 9 June 1964 | 13 days | Nanda I | Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) | ||
| (4) | | Lalit Narayan Mishra (1923–1975) MP for Bihar (Rajya Sabha) | 27 May 1964 | 9 June 1964 | 1 year, 242 days | ||||
| 9 June 1964 | 11 January 1966 | Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | ||||||
| 11 January 1966 | 24 January 1966 | Nanda II | Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) | ||||||
| 5 |  | Purnendu Sekhar Naskar (1921–?) MP for Mathurapur | 24 January 1966 | 13 March 1967 | 1 year, 48 days | Indira I | Indira Gandhi | ||
| 6 | | Vidya Charan Shukla (1929–2013) MP for Mahasamund | 14 February 1966 | 13 March 1967 | 1 year, 27 days | ||||
| 7 | K. S. Ramaswamy (1922–2004) MP for Madras (Rajya Sabha) | 18 March 1967 | 18 March 1971 | 4 years, 0 days | |||||
| 8 | Fakruddinsab Hussensab Mohsin (1923–1996) MP for Dharwad South | 2 May 1971 | 24 March 1977 | 5 years, 326 days | Indira II | ||||
| 9 | Ram Lal Rahi (1934–2020) MP for Misrikh | 21 June 1991 | 15 September 1995 | 4 years, 86 days | Indian National Congress | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | ||
| Position not in use (since 15 September 1995) | |||||||||
References edit
- ^ "List of Home Ministers of India (1947 to 2022)". Jagranjosh.com. 4 January 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
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