Minister of Home Affairs (India)

Minister of Home Affairs
Emblem of India
Incumbent Rajnath Singh
Ministry of Home Affairs
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Union Cabinet National Security Council
Reports to	The Prime Minister
Seat	North Block, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
Appointer	President on the advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	5 years
Formation	15 August 1947

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The Minister of Home Affairs (or simply, the Home Minister) 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 India's internal security; the country's large police force comes under his ambit. Occasionally, he/she is assisted by the Minister of State of Home Affairs and the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of 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 2018, three Home Ministers have gone on to become the Prime Minister who are: Lal Bahadur Shastri, Charan Singh and P. V. Narasimha Rao. L.K. Advani, serving from 19th March 1998 to 22nd May 2004, has held the office of the Home Minister for the longest contiguous period, as of 25th January 2019.

Since 26 May 2014, the Home Minister of India is Rajnath Singh of the Bharatiya Janta Party, taking over the reins from Sushilkumar Shinde.

Contents

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  1 List of Home Ministers
  


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  2 Ministers of State of Home Affairs
  


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  3 References
  


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  4 External links
  

List of Home Ministers

№	Name	Portrait	Term of office		Political party (Alliance)		Prime Minister
1	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel		15 August 1947	15 December 1950	Indian National Congress		Jawaharlal Nehru
2	C. Rajagopalachari		26 December 1950	25 October 1951
3	Kailash Nath Katju		25 October 1951	10 January 1955
4	Govind Ballabh Pant		10 January 1955	7 March 1961
5	Lal Bahadur Shastri		4 April 1961	29 August 1963
6	Gulzarilal Nanda		29 August 1963	14 November 1966			Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi
7	Yashwantrao Chavan		14 November 1966	27 June 1970			Indira Gandhi
8	Indira Gandhi		27 June 1970	4 February 1973
9	Uma Shankar Dikshit		4 February 1973	10 October 1974
10	Kasu Brahmananda Reddy		10 October 1974	24 March 1977
11	Charan Singh		24 March 1977	1 July 1978	Janata Party		Morarji Desai
12	Morarji Desai		1 July 1978	28 July 1979
(7)	Yashwantrao Chavan		28 July 1979	14 January 1980	Janata Party (Secular)		Charan Singh
13	Giani Zail Singh		14 January 1980	22 June 1982	Indian National Congress		Indira Gandhi
14	R. Venkataraman		22 June 1982	2 September 1982
15	Prakash Chandra Sethi		2 September 1982	19 July 1984
16	P. V. Narasimha Rao		19 July 1984	31 December 1984			Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
17	Shankarrao Chavan		31 December 1984	12 March 1986			Rajiv Gandhi
(16)	P. V. Narasimha Rao		12 March 1986	12 May 1986
18	Sardar Buta Singh		12 May 1986	2 December 1989
19	Mufti Mohammad Sayeed		December 1989	10 November 1990	Janata Dal (National Front)		V. P. Singh
20	Chandra Shekhar		10 November 1990	21 June 1991	Samajwadi Janata Party (National Front)		Chandra Shekhar
(17)	Shankarrao Chavan		21 June 1991	16 May 1996	Indian National Congress		P. V. Narasimha Rao
21	Murli Manohar Joshi		16 May 1996	1 June 1996	Bharatiya Janata Party		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
22	H.D. Deve Gowda		1 June 1996	29 June 1996	Janata Dal (United Front)		H.D. Deve Gowda
23	Indrajit Gupta		29 June 1996	19 March 1998	Communist Party of India (United Front)		H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
24	L. K. Advani		19 March 1998	22 May 2004	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
25	Shivraj Patil		22 May 2004	30 November 2008	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)		Manmohan Singh
26	P. Chidambaram		30 November 2008	31 July 2012
27	Sushilkumar Shinde		31 July 2012	26 May 2014
28	Rajnath Singh		26 May 2014	Incumbent	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)		Narendra Modi

Ministers of State of Home Affairs

Name	Term of office		Political Party		Prime Minister	Minister of Home Affairs
Subodh Kant Sahay[1]	April 1990	November 1990	Janata Dal National Front		V. P. Singh	Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
Shriprakash Jaiswal[2]	23 May 2004	2009	Indian National Congress United Progressive Alliance		Manmohan Singh	Shivraj Patil
						P. Chidambaram
R. P. N. Singh[3]	28 October 2012	26 May 2014	Indian National Congress United Progressive Alliance		Manmohan Singh	Sushilkumar Shinde
Kiren Rijiju	26 May 2014	Incumbent	Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance		Narendra Modi	Rajnath Singh

References

1. 
   ^ Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : Sahai, Shri Subodh Kant
   


2. 
   ^ Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : Jaiswal, Shri Sriprakash
   


3. 
   ^ Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : Singh, Shri Ratanjit Pratap Narain
   

External links

• Home Ministry, Govt. of India

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