Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas

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The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas is the head of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India.

Ministers[]

Name Term of office Party Prime Minister
Humayun Kabir[1] 21 November 1963 24 January 1966 Indian National Congress Jawaharlal Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri
O. V. Alagesan
(MoS, Independent Charge) 		24 January 1966 12 March 1967 Indira Gandhi
Asoka Mehta 13 March 1967 22 August 1968

(MoS, Independent Charge) 		22 August 1968 14 February 1969
14 February 1969 18 March 1971

(MoS, Independent Charge) 		18 March 1971 2 May 1971
2 May 1971 29 January 1972
H. R. Gokhale 29 January 1972 5 February 1973
5 February 1973 10 October 1974
10 October 1974 24 March 1977
Morarji Desai 26 March 1977 28 March 1977 Janata Party Morarji Desai
H. N. Bahuguna 28 March 1977 15 July 1979
15 July 1979 28 July 1979
T. A. Pai 28 July 1979 24 August 1979 Janata Party (Secular) Charan Singh
Aravinda Bala Pazhanoor 24 August 1979 23 December 1979 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Charan Singh 23 December 1979 27 December 1979 Janata Party (Secular)
27 December 1979 14 January 1980
Indira Gandhi 14 January 1980 16 January 1980 Indian National Congress Indira Gandhi
16 January 1980 7 March 1980
Virendra Patil 7 March 1980 19 October 1980
19 October 1980 15 January 1982
P Shiv Shankar 15 January 1982 31 December 1984 Indira Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi

(MoS, Independent Charge) 		31 December 1984 20 January 1986 Rajiv Gandhi
Chandrashekhar Singh
(MoS, Independent Charge) 		20 January 1986 24 June 1986
N. D. Tiwari 24 June 1986 22 October 1986
Brahm Dutt
(MoS, Independent Charge) 		22 October 1986 2 December 1989
V. P. Singh 2 December 1989 6 December 1989 Janata Party
(National Front) 		V. P. Singh
6 December 1989 10 November 1990
Chandra Shekhar 10 November 1990 21 November 1990 Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) Chandra Shekhar
Satya Prakash Malaviya 21 November 1990 21 June 1991
B. Shankaranand 21 June 1991 18 January 1993 Indian National Congress P. V. Narasimha Rao
Satish Sharma
(MoS, Independent Charge) 		18 January 1993 16 May 1996
Atal Bihari Vajpayee 16 May 1996 1 June 1996 Bharatiya Janata Party Atal Bihari Vajpayee
H. D. Deve Gowda 1 June 1996 21 April 1997 Janata Dal
(United Front) 		H. D. Deve Gowda
I. K. Gujral 21 April 1997 9 June 1997 I. K. Gujral
Janeshwar Mishra 9 June 1997 18 March 1998
Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy 18 March 1998 13 October 1999 Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress
(National Democratic Alliance) 		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Ram Naik 13 October 1999 22 May 2004 Bharatiya Janata Party
(National Democratic Alliance)
Mani Shankar Aiyar 22 May 2004 29 January 2005 Indian National Congress
(United Progressive Alliance) 		Manmohan Singh
Murli Deora 29 January 2005 20 January 2011
S. Jaipal Reddy 20 January 2011 29 October 2012
M. Veerappa Moily 29 October 2012 26 May 2014
Dharmendra Pradhan
(MoS, Independent Charge till 03 September 2017) 		26 May 2014 7 July 2021 Bharatiya Janata Party
(National Democratic Alliance) 		Narendra Modi
Hardeep Singh Puri 7 July 2021

References[]

  1. ^ "Council of Ministers" (PDF).


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