Minister of Home Affairs (India)

Minister of Home Affairs Griha Mantri
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Incumbent Amit Shah since 30 May 2019
Ministry of Home Affairs
Style	The Honourable
Abbreviation	HM
Member of	Union Cabinet
Reports to	Prime Minister, Parliament of India
Seat	North Block, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
Appointer	President on the advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	5 years
Precursor	Rajnath Singh (2014-2019)
Inaugural holder	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1947-1950)
Formation	15 August 1947
Website	mha.gov.in

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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 India's internal security; 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.

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.

From 26 May 2014 to 30 May 2019, the Home Minister of India was Rajnath Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party, taking over the reins from Sushilkumar Shinde. On 31 May 2019, following the swearing-in of the Second Modi Ministry Amit Shah assumed the office as its 31st occupant.

List of Home Ministers[]

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Tenure (in years, days)	Political party (Alliance)		Prime Minister
1		Vallabhbhai Patel	15 August 1947	12 December 1950	3 years, 119 days	Indian National Congress		Jawaharlal Nehru
2		Jawaharlal Nehru	12 December 1950	26 December 1950	14 days
3		C. Rajagopalachari	26 December 1950	5 November 1951	314 days
4		Kailash Nath Katju	5 November 1951	10 January 1955	3 years, 66 days
5		Govind Ballabh Pant	10 January 1955	25 February 1961	6 years, 46 days
6		Lal Bahadur Shastri	25 February 1961	1 September 1963	2 years, 188 days
7		Gulzarilal Nanda	1 September 1963	9 November 1966	3 years, 69 days			Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi
8		Indira Gandhi	9 November 1966	13 November 1966	4 days			Indira Gandhi
9		Yashwantrao Chavan	13 November 1966	27 June 1970	3 years, 226 days
(8)		Indira Gandhi	27 June 1970	5 February 1973	2 years, 223 days
10		Uma Shankar Dikshit	5 February 1973	10 October 1974	1 year, 247 days
11		Kasu Brahmananda Reddy	10 October 1974	24 March 1977	2 years, 165 days
12		Charan Singh	24 March 1977	1 July 1978	1 year, 99 days	Janata Party		Morarji Desai
13		Morarji Desai	1 July 1978	24 January 1979	207 days
14		Hirubhai M. Patel	24 January 1979	28 July 1979	185 days
(9)		Yashwantrao Chavan	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Indian National Congress (Urs)		Charan Singh
15		Zail Singh	14 January 1980	22 June 1982	2 years, 159 days	Indian National Congress		Indira Gandhi
16		Ramaswamy Venkataraman	22 June 1982	2 September 1982	72 days
17		Prakash Chandra Sethi	2 September 1982	19 July 1984	1 year, 321 days
18		P. V. Narasimha Rao	19 July 1984	31 December 1984	165 days			Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
19		Shankarrao Chavan	31 December 1984	12 March 1986	1 year, 71 days			Rajiv Gandhi
(18)		P. V. Narasimha Rao	12 March 1986	12 May 1986	61 days
20		Buta Singh	12 May 1986	2 December 1989	3 years, 204 days
21		Mufti Mohammad Sayeed	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	Janata Dal (National Front)		V. P. Singh
22		Chandra Shekhar	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	223 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)		Chandra Shekhar
(19)		Shankarrao Chavan	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years, 330 days	Indian National Congress		P. V. Narasimha Rao
23		Murli Manohar Joshi	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
24		H. D. Deve Gowda	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	Janata Dal (United Front)		H. D. Deve Gowda
25		Indrajit Gupta	29 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 263 days	Communist Party of India (United Front)		H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
26		L. K. Advani	19 March 1998	22 May 2004	6 years, 64 days	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
27		Shivraj Patil	22 May 2004	30 November 2008	4 years, 192 days	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)		Manmohan Singh
28		P. Chidambaram	30 November 2008	31 July 2012	3 years, 244 days
29		Sushilkumar Shinde	31 July 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 299 days
30		Rajnath Singh	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	5 years, 4 days	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)		Narendra Modi
31		Amit Shah	30 May 2019	Incumbent	2 years, 250 days

List of Ministers of State[]

Ministers of State of Home Affairs

Minister of state	Portrait	Political party		Term		Years
Subodh Kant Sahay		Janata Dal		23 April 1990	21 June 1991	212 days
Sriprakash Jaiswal		Indian National Congress		23 May 2004	22 May 2009	4 years, 364 days
Mullappally Ramachandran				28 May 2009	26 May 2014	4 years, 363 days
R. P. N. Singh				28 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 210 days
Kiren Rijiju		Bharatiya Janata Party		26 May 2014	30 May 2019	5 years, 4 days
Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary				9 November 2014	5 July 2016	1 year, 239 days
Hansraj Gangaram Ahir				5 July 2016	25 July 2019	3 years, 20 days
G. Kishan Reddy				30 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 38 days
Nityanand Rai				30 May 2019	Incumbent	2 years, 250 days
Ajay Kumar Mishra				7 July 2021	Incumbent	212 days
Nisith Pramanik				7 July 2021	Incumbent	212 days

References[]

External links[]

• Home Ministry, Govt. of India
• Amit Shah take charge of Home Ministry of India 2019