Minister of External Affairs (India)
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The External Affairs Minister or the Indian Foreign Minister is a position of office at cabinet level within the Government of India. The chief responsibility of the External Affairs Minister is to represent India and its government in the international community. The minister heads the "Ministry of External Affairs." Occasionally, a junior minister designated to the post of Minister of State for External Affairs assists the External Affairs Minister. In some cases, there have been Deputy External Affairs Ministers at a secondary level.
The External Affairs ministry is run by bureaucratic officials from the Indian Foreign Service. The head of this department is the Foreign Secretary. This department is also responsible for international Diplomatic postings. The position of external affairs minister hold significance in the sense that, when this position have been vacant, the Prime Ministers have been the only person to have held additional charge as External Affairs Minister. There have been a number of External Affairs Ministers who later went on to become the Prime Ministers of India.
The position is currently held by S. M. Krishna of the Indian National Congress Party.
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[edit] Foreign Ministers of India
| No | Name | Took Office | Left Office | Other Positions | Party | Lok Sabha (Term in Office) ^[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Jawaharlal Nehru | 2 September 1946 | 27 May 1964 | Prime Minister | INC | 1st 2nd 3rd (4th) |
| 2. | Gulzari Lal Nanda | 27 May 1964 | 9 June 1964 | Prime Minister | INC | 3rd (1st) |
| 3. | Lal Bahadur Shastri | 9 June 1964 | 17 July 1964 | Prime Minister | INC | 3rd (1st) |
| 4. | Sardar Swaran Singh | 18 July 1964 | 14 November 1966 | INC | 3rd (1st) | |
| 5. | M C Chagla | 14 November 1966 | 5 September 1967 | INC | 3rd 4th (1st) | |
| 6. | Indira Gandhi | 6 September 1967 | 13 February 1969 | Prime Minister | INC | 4th (1st) |
| 7. | Dinesh Singh | 14 February 1969 | 27 June 1970 | Cong(R) | 4th (1st) | |
| 8. | Sardar Swaran Singh | 27 June 1970 | 10 October 1974 | Cong(R) | 4th 5th (2nd) | |
| 9. | Y B Chavan | 10 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | Cong(R) | 5th (1st) | |
| 10. | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 26 March 1977 | 28 July 1979 | JP | 6th (1st) | |
| 11. | Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra | 28 July 1979 | 13 January 1980 | 6th (1st) | ||
| 12. | P V Narasimha Rao | 14 January 1980 | 19 July 1984 | Cong(I) | 7th (1st) | |
| 13. | Indira Gandhi | 19 July 1984 | 31 October 1984 | Prime Minister | Cong(I) | 7th (3rd) |
| 14. | Rajiv Gandhi | 31 October 1984 | 24 September 1985 | Prime Minister | Cong(I) | 7th 8th (1st) |
| 15. | Bali Ram Bhagat | 25 September 1985 | 12 May 1986 | Cong(I) | 8th (1st) | |
| 16. | P Shiv Shankar | 12 May 1986 | 22 October 1986 | Cong(I) | 8th (1st) | |
| 17. | Narayan Dutt Tiwari | 22 October 1986 | 25 July 1987 | Cong(I) | 8th (1st) | |
| 18. | Rajiv Gandhi | 25 July 1987 | 25 June 1988 | Prime Minister | Cong(I) | 8th (2nd) |
| 19. | P V Narasimha Rao | 25 June 1988 | 2 December 1989 | Cong(I) | 8th (1st) | |
| 20. | Vishwanath Pratap Singh | 2 December 1989 | 5 December 1989 | Prime Minister | JD | 9th (1st) |
| 21. | I K Gujral | 5 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | JD | 9th (1st) | |
| 22. | Vidya Charan Shukla | 21 November 1990 | 20 February 1991 | SJP | 9th (1st) | |
| 23. | Madhavsinh Solanki | 21 June 1991 | 31 March 1992 | Cong(I) | 10th (1st) | |
| 24. | P V Narasimha Rao | 31 March 1992 | 18 January 1993 | Prime Minister | Cong(I) | 10th (2nd) |
| 25. | Dinesh Singh | 18 January 1993 | 10 February 1995 | Cong(I) | 10th (2nd) | |
| 26. | Pranab Mukherjee | 10 February 1995 | 16 May 1996 | Dy. Chairman Planning Commission |
Cong(I) | 10th (1st) |
| 27. | Sikander Bakht | 21 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | BJP | 11th (1st) | |
| 28. | I K Gujral | 1 June 1996 | 18 March 1998 | Prime Minister | JD | 11th (2nd) |
| 29. | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 19 March 1998 | 5 December 1998 | Prime Minister | BJP | 12th (2nd) |
| 30. | Jaswant Singh | 5 December 1998 | 23 June 2002 | BJP | 12th 13th (1st) | |
| 31. | Yashwant Sinha | 1 July 2002 | 22 May 2004 | BJP | 13th (1st) | |
| 32. | Natwar Singh | 22 May 2004[2] | 6 November 2005[3] | INC | 14th (1st) | |
| 33. | Dr. Manmohan Singh | 6 November 2005[3] | 24 October 2006[4] | Prime Minister | INC | 14th (1st) |
| 34. | Pranab Mukherjee | 24 October 2006[4] | 22 May 2009 | INC | 14th (2nd) | |
| 35. | S. M. Krishna | 22 May 2009 | Till Date | INC |
[edit] Minister of State, External Affairs
| No | Name | Took Office | Left Office | Other Positions | Party | Lok Sabha (Term in Office) ^[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Laxmi N Menon | 16 April 1962 | 9 September 1964 | |||
| 2. | Laxmi N Menon | 15 June 1964 | 24 January 1966 | |||
| 3. | Dinesh Singh | 24 January 1966 | 13 March 1967 | |||
| 4. | Bali Ram Bhagat | 14 November 1967 | 14 February 1969 | |||
| 5. | Surendrapal Singh | 5 February 1973 | 10 October 1972 | |||
| 6. | Samarendra Kundu | 16 August 1977 | 28 July 1979 | |||
| 7. | Bedabrata Barua | 5 August 1979 | 13 January 1980 | |||
| 8. | Abubakar Abdul Rahim | 3 September 1982 | 31 October 1984 | |||
| 9. | Ram Niwas Mirdha | 2 August 1984 | 31 October 1984 | |||
| 10. | Abubakar Abdul Rahim | 4 November 1984 | 31 December 1984 | |||
| 11. | Ram Niwas Mirdha | 4 November 1984 | 31 December 1984 | |||
| 12. | Khurseed Alam Khan | 31 December 1984 | 25 September 1985 | |||
| 13. | K R Narayanan | 25 September 1985 | 22 October 1986 | |||
| 14. | Eduardo Falerio | 12 May 1986 | 14 February 1988 | |||
| 15. | K Deepak kumar | 22 October 1986 | 2 December 1989 | |||
| 16. | Prof. K K Tiwari | 27 June 1988 | 4 December 1989 | |||
| 17. | Hari Kishore Singh | 21 April 1990 | 10 November 1990 | |||
| 18. | Eduardo Falerio | 21 June 1991 | 17 January 1993 | |||
| 19. | Raghunandan Lal Bhatia | 2 July 1992 | 16 May 1996 | |||
| 20. | Salman Khursheed | 19 January 1993 | 16 May 1996 | |||
| 21. | Saleem Iqbal Shervani | 9 May 1997 | 19 March 1998 | |||
| 22. | Kamala Sinha | 3 June 1997 | 19 March 1998 | |||
| 23. | Vasundhara Raje | 19 March 1998 | 13 October 1999 | |||
| 24. | Ajit Kumar Panja | 13 October 1999 | 15 March 2001 | |||
| 25. | U V Krishnam Raju | 30 September 2000 | 22 July 2001 | |||
| 26. | Omar Abdullah | 23 July 2001 | 23 December 2002 | |||
| 27. | Digvijay Singh | 1 July 2002 | 22 May 2004 | |||
| 28. | Vinod Khanna | 29 January 2003 | 22 May 2004 | |||
| 29. | E. Ahmed | 22 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 | |||
| 30. | Anand Sharma | 29 January 2006 | 28 May 2009 | |||
| 31. | Shashi Tharoor | 28 May 2009 | 18 April 2010 | |||
| 32. | preneet kaur | 28 May 2009 | current |
[edit] Deputy Foreign Ministers of India
| No | Name | Took Office | Left Office | Other Positions | Party | Lok Sabha (Term in Office) ^[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dr. B V Keshkar | 7 December 1948 | 26 January 1950 | Commonwealth Relations | ||
| 2. | Dr. B V Keskar | 31 January 1950 | 13 May 1952 | |||
| 3. | Anil K Chanda | 12 August 1952 | 17 April 1957 | |||
| 4. | Dr. Syed Mahmud | 7 December 1954 | 17 April 1957 | |||
| 5. | Laxmi N Menon | 18 April 1957 | 10 April 1962 | |||
| 6. | Dinesh Singh | 8 May 1962 | 24 January 1966 | |||
| 7. | Surendrapal Singh | 18 March 1967 | 5 February 1973 | |||
| 8. | Bipinpal Das | 17 October 1974 | 24 March 1977 | |||
| 9. | Digvijay Singh | 29 November 1990 |
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c Ministry of External Affairs Library Website accessed 24 Oct, 2006.
- ^ Rediff.com dated 22 May 2004, accessed 25 October 2006.
- ^ a b BBC News dated 7 November 2005, accessed 25 October 2006.
- ^ a b The Hindu dated 25 October 2006, accessed 25 October 2006.
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