Minister of External Affairs (India)
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| Minister of External Affairs | |
|---|---|
| Videś Mantrī | |
| File:Ministry of External Affairs India.svg | |
| File:Flag of India.svg | |
since 31 May 2019 | |
| Ministry of External Affairs | |
| Abbreviation | MEA |
| 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 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Deputy | Kirti Vardhan Singh • Pabitra Margherita |
The Minister of External Affairs (or simply, the External Affairs Minister Hindi: Videsh Mantri) is the head of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India. One of the senior-most offices in the union cabinet, the chief responsibility of the Minister of External Affairs is to represent India and its government in the international community. The Minister also plays an important role in determining the foreign policy. Occasionally, the Minister of External Affairs is assisted by a Minister of State for External Affairs or the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of External Affairs. India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, also held the post of External Affairs Minister throughout his 17-year premiership and remains the longest-serving External Affairs Minister. Several other Prime Ministers have since held the additional charge of the minister of external affairs, but never has any other cabinet minister held additional charge of the office - although during Nehru's premiership V. K. Krishna Menon was acknowledged as de facto Minister of External Affairs beyond his official designation as Defence Minister. There have been a number of external affairs ministers who went on to become the Prime Minister like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, P. V. Narasimha Rao and I. K. Gujral. Two former career-diplomats have served as ministers of external affairs, including K. Natwar Singh (2004–2005) who served as India's Ambassador to Poland and as High Commissioner to Pakistan, and the current minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar who retired as the Foreign Secretary. Two other ministers, M. C. Chagla and I. K. Gujral also served as ambassadors, with Chagla serving as India's Ambassador to the United States and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, while Gujral served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union. The current Minister of External Affairs is Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who succeeded Sushma Swaraj of the Bharatiya Janata Party on 30 May 2019.
Cabinet Ministers
| No. | Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency |
Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Period | ||||||||
| Minister of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations | ||||||||||
| 1 | File:Jnehru.jpg | Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MCA for United Provinces (Prime Minister) |
15 August 1947 |
26 January 1950 |
2 years, 164 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I | Self | ||
| Minister of External Affairs | ||||||||||
| (1) | File:Jnehru.jpg | Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MCA for United Provinces (till 1952) MP for Phulpur (from 1952) (Prime Minister) |
26 January 1950 |
27 May 1964[†] |
14 years, 122 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I | Self | ||
| Nehru II | ||||||||||
| Nehru III | ||||||||||
| Nehru IV | ||||||||||
| 2 | File:Gulzarilal Nanda 1.jpg | Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha (Prime Minister) |
27 May 1964 |
9 June 1964 |
13 days | Nanda I | Self | |||
| 3 | File:Lal Bahadur Shastri (from stamp).jpg | Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad (Prime Minister) |
9 June 1964 |
17 July 1964 |
38 days | Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | |||
| 4 | File:Sardar Swaran Singh.jpg | Swaran Singh (1907–1994) MP for Jullundur |
17 July 1964 |
11 January 1966 |
2 years, 120 days | |||||
| 11 January 1966 |
24 January 1966 |
Nanda II | Gulzarilal Nanda | |||||||
| 24 January 1966 |
14 November 1966 |
Indira I | Indira Gandhi | |||||||
| 5 | File:Mohamed Ali Currim Chagla.jpg | M. C. Chagla (1900–1981) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra |
14 November 1966 |
13 March 1967 |
295 days | |||||
| 13 March 1967 |
5 September 1967 |
Indira II | ||||||||
| 6 | File:Indira Gandhi official portrait.png | Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli (Prime Minister) |
6 September 1967 |
13 February 1969 |
1 year, 160 days | |||||
| 7 | File:Dinesh Singh Lok Sabha portrait.gif | Dinesh Singh (1925–1995) MP for Pratapgarh |
14 February 1969 |
27 June 1970 |
1 year, 133 days | Indian National Congress (R) | ||||
| (4) | File:Sardar Swaran Singh.jpg | Swaran Singh (1907–1994) MP for Jullundur |
27 June 1970 |
18 March 1971 |
4 years, 105 days | |||||
| 18 March 1971 |
10 October 1974 |
Indira III | ||||||||
| 8 | File:Yashwantrao Chavan.jpg | Yashwantrao Chavan (1913–1984) MP for Satara |
10 October 1974 |
24 March 1977 |
2 years, 165 days | |||||
| 9 | File:Atal Bihari Vajpayee (crop 2).jpg | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for New Delhi |
26 March 1977 |
28 July 1979 |
2 years, 124 days | Janata Party | Desai | Morarji Desai | ||
| 10 | File:Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra portrait.gif | Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra (1920–2004) MP for Begusarai |
28 July 1979 |
14 January 1980 |
170 days | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan | Charan Singh | ||
| 11 | File:Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped)(2).jpg | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Hanamkonda |
14 January 1980 |
19 July 1984 |
4 years, 187 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Indira IV | Indira Gandhi | ||
| (6) | File:Indira Gandhi official portrait.png | Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Medak (Prime Minister) |
19 July 1984 |
31 October 1984† |
104 days | |||||
| 12 | File:RajivGandhi.jpg | Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi (Prime Minister) |
31 October 1984 |
31 December 1984 |
328 days | Rajiv I | Rajiv Gandhi | |||
| 31 December 1984 |
24 September 1985 |
Rajiv | ||||||||
| 13 | File:Bali Ram Bhagat portrait.gif | Bali Ram Bhagat (1922–2011) MP for Arrah |
24 September 1985 |
12 May 1986 |
230 days | |||||
| 14 | File:P. Shiv Shankar (cropped).jpg | P. Shiv Shankar (1929–2017) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat |
12 May 1986 |
22 October 1986 |
163 days | |||||
| 15 | File:Shri Narayan Dutt Tiwari.jpg | N. D. Tiwari (1925–2018) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh |
22 October 1986 |
25 July 1987 |
276 days | |||||
| (12) | File:RajivGandhi.jpg | Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi (Prime Minister) |
25 July 1987 |
25 June 1988 |
336 days | |||||
| (11) | File:Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped)(2).jpg | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Ramtek |
25 June 1988 |
2 December 1989 |
1 year, 160 days | |||||
| 16 | File:V. P. Singh (cropped).jpg | Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur (Prime Minister) |
2 December 1989 |
5 December 1989 |
3 days | Janata Dal | Vishwanath | Vishwanath Pratap Singh | ||
| 17 | File:Inder Kumar Gujral 071.jpg | Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP for Jalandhar |
5 December 1989 |
10 November 1990 |
340 days | |||||
| 18 | File:Chandra Shekhar Singh.jpg | Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia (Prime Minister) |
10 November 1990 |
21 November 1990 |
11 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Chandra Shekhar | ||
| 19 | File:Vidya Charan Shukla (cropped).jpg | Vidya Charan Shukla (1929–2013) MP for Mahasamund |
21 November 1990 |
20 February 1991 |
91 days | |||||
| (18) | File:Chandra Shekhar Singh.jpg | Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia (Prime Minister) |
20 February 1991 |
21 June 1991 |
121 days | |||||
| 20 | Madhavsinh Solanki (1927–2021) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat |
21 June 1991 |
31 March 1992 |
284 days | Indian National Congress (I) | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | |||
| (11) | File:Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped)(2).jpg | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister) |
31 March 1992 |
18 January 1993 |
293 days | |||||
| (7) | File:Dinesh Singh Lok Sabha portrait.gif | Dinesh Singh (1925–1995) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh |
18 January 1993 |
10 February 1995 |
2 years, 23 days | |||||
| 21 | File:Pranab Mukherjee Portrait (cropped).jpg | Pranab Mukherjee (1935–2020) Rajya MP for West Bengal |
10 February 1995 |
16 May 1996 |
1 year, 96 days | |||||
| (9) | File:Atal Bihari Vajpayee (crop 2).jpg | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister) |
16 May 1996 |
21 May 1996 |
5 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee I | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ||
| 22 | File:Sikander Bakht Lok Sabha photo.jpg | Sikander Bakht (1918–2004) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh |
21 May 1996 |
1 June 1996 |
11 days | |||||
| (17) | File:Inder Kumar Gujral 071.jpg | Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar (Prime Minister from 21 April 1997) |
1 June 1996 |
21 April 1997 |
1 year, 290 days | Janata Dal | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | ||
| 21 April 1997 |
18 March 1998 |
Gujral | Self | |||||||
| (9) | File:Atal Bihari Vajpayee (crop 2).jpg | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister) |
19 March 1998 |
5 December 1998 |
261 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | ||
| 23 | File:Jaswant Singh in 2001.jpg | Jaswant Singh (1938–2020) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan |
5 December 1998 |
13 October 1999 |
3 years, 208 days | |||||
| 13 October 1999 |
1 July 2002 |
Vajpayee III | ||||||||
| 24 | File:Yashwant Sinha IMF.jpg | Yashwant Sinha (born 1937) MP for Hazaribagh |
1 July 2002 |
22 May 2004 |
1 year, 326 days | |||||
| 25 | File:K. Natwar Singh 2005.jpg | K. Natwar Singh (1929–2024) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan |
23 May 2004 |
6 November 2005 |
1 year, 167 days | Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | ||
| 26 | File:Manmohan Singh in 2009.jpg | Manmohan Singh (born 1932) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam (Prime Minister) |
6 November 2005 |
24 October 2006 |
352 days | |||||
| (21) | File:Pranab Mukherjee Portrait (cropped).jpg | Pranab Mukherjee (1935–2020) MP for Jangipur |
24 October 2006 |
22 May 2009 |
2 years, 210 days | |||||
| 27 | File:India-eam-krishna (cropped).jpg | S. M. Krishna (born 1932) Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka |
23 May 2009 |
28 October 2012 |
3 years, 158 days | Manmohan II | ||||
| 28 | File:Salman Khurshid portrait (cropped).jpg | Salman Khurshid (born 1953) MP for Farrukhabad |
28 October 2012 |
26 May 2014 |
1 year, 210 days | |||||
| 29 | File:Secretary Tillerson is Greeted by Indian Minister of External Affairs Swaraj (24074726498) (cropped).jpg | Sushma Swaraj (1952–2019) MP for Vidisha |
26 May 2014 |
30 May 2019 |
5 years, 4 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Narendra Modi | ||
| 30 | File:The official portrait of External Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.jpg | S. Jaishankar (born 1955) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat |
31 May 2019 |
Incumbent | 5 years, 228 days | Modi II | ||||
| Modi III | ||||||||||
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Deputy Ministers
| No. | Portrait | Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency |
Term of office | Political party | Ministry | Prime Minister | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | To | Period | ||||||||
| Deputy Minister of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations | ||||||||||
| 1 | File:B. V. Keskar portrait.gif | B. V. Keskar (1903–1984) MCA for Madras |
7 December 1948 |
26 January 1950 |
1 year, 50 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I | Jawaharlal Nehru | ||
| Deputy Minister of External Affairs | ||||||||||
| (1) | File:B. V. Keskar portrait.gif | B. V. Keskar (1903–1984) MCA for Madras |
31 January 1950 |
13 May 1952 |
2 years, 103 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru I | Jawaharlal Nehru | ||
| 2 | File:Anil Kumar Chanda portrait.gif | Anil Kumar Chanda (1906–1976) MP for Birbhum |
12 August 1952 |
17 April 1957 |
4 years, 262 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru II | |||
| 17 April 1957 |
1 May 1957 |
Nehru III | ||||||||
| 3 | File:Lakshmi N. Menon (1963).jpg | Lakshmi N. Menon (1899–1994) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar |
17 April 1957 |
10 April 1962 |
4 years, 358 days | |||||
| 4 | File:Dinesh Singh Lok Sabha portrait.gif | Dinesh Singh (1925–1995) MP for Pratapgarh |
8 May 1962 |
27 May 1964 |
3 years, 261 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru IV | |||
| 27 May 1964 |
9 June 1964 |
Nanda I | Gulzarilal Nanda | |||||||
| 15 June 1964 |
11 January 1966 |
Shastri | Lal Bahadur Shastri | |||||||
| 11 January 1966 |
24 January 1966 |
Nanda II | Gulzarilal Nanda | |||||||
| 5 | File:Surendra Pal Singh portrait.jpg | Surendra Pal Singh (1917–2009) MP for Bulandshahr |
18 March 1967 |
18 March 1971 |
5 years, 352 days | Indian National Congress | Indira II | Indira Gandhi | ||
| Indian National Congress (R) | ||||||||||
| 18 March 1971 |
5 February 1973 |
Indira III | ||||||||
| 6 | File:Bipinpal Das portrait.jpg | Bipinpal Das (1923–2005) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam |
17 October 1974 |
24 March 1977 |
2 years, 158 days | |||||
| 7 | File:Dig Vijaysingh.jpg | Digvijay Singh (1955–2010) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar |
28 November 1990 |
21 June 1991 |
205 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Chandra Shekhar | ||
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