Minister of Home Affairs (India)

Minister of Home Affairs of the Government of India
Griha Mantri
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Ministry of Home Affairs
Style	The Honourable Home Minister
Type	Cabinet minister
Status	Active
Abbreviation	HM
Member of	The Union Cabinet and The Parliament
Reports to	The Prime Minister
Seat	North Block, New Delhi
Nominator	The Prime Minister
Appointer	The President on the advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	5 years No restriction of renewal
Constituting instrument	The Constitution of India
Precursor	Rajnath Singh (2014-2019)
Formation	15 August 1947
First holder	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1947-1950)
Unofficial names	Home Minister
Deputy	Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs
Website	The Ministry of Home Affairs

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.

Central Armed Police Forces and domestic intelligence agency

Chiefs of CAPFs, NIA and IB report directly to the Home Minister. DGs of CAPFs may also report to Special Secretary (Internal Security) and Special Secretary/Additional Secretary (Border Management).

Chiefs of Central Armed Police Forces and Intelligence Bureau

	Designation
Arvind Kumar, IPS	Director of the Intelligence Bureau
Mr. Kuldeep Singh, IPS	Director General, Central Reserve Police Force
Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh, IPS	Director General, Border Security Force
Mr. Sheel Vardhan Singh, IPS	Director General, Central Industrial Security Force
Mr. Kumar Rajesh Chandra, IPS	Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal
Mr.Sanjay Arora IPS	Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police
Mr. M.A. Ganapathy, IPS	Director General, National Security Guard
Mr.Kuldiep Singh, IPS	Director General, National Investigation Agency

List of Home Ministers

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
1		Vallabhbhai Patel	15 August 1947	12 December 1950	3 years, 119 days	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian National Congress
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	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
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	Charan Singh	Indian National Congress (U)
15		Zail Singh	14 January 1980	22 June 1982	2 years, 159 days	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
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	V. P. Singh	Janata Dal
22		Chandra Shekhar	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	223 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
(19)		Shankarrao Chavan	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years, 330 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
23		Murli Manohar Joshi	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
24		H. D. Deve Gowda	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	H. D. Deve Gowda	Janata Dal
25		Indrajit Gupta	29 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 263 days	H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral	Communist Party of India
26		L. K. Advani	19 March 1998	22 May 2004	6 years, 64 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
27		Shivraj Patil	22 May 2004	30 November 2008	4 years, 192 days	Manmohan Singh	Indian National Congress
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	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
31		Amit Shah	30 May 2019	Incumbent	5 years, 76 days

List of Ministers of State

Ministers of State of Home Affairs

Portrait	Name	Term			Political party
	Subodh Kant Sahay	23 April 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Janata Dal
	Sriprakash Jaiswal	23 May 2004	27 May 2009	5 years, 4 days	Indian National Congress
	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	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	5 years, 4 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
	Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary	9 November 2014	5 July 2016	1 year, 239 days
	Hansraj Gangaram Ahir	5 July 2016	30 May 2019	2 years, 329 days
	G. Kishan Reddy	30 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 38 days
	Nityanand Rai	30 May 2019	Incumbent	5 years, 76 days
File:Ajay Kumar Mishra.jpg	Ajay Mishra Teni	7 July 2021	Incumbent	3 years, 38 days
	Nisith Pramanik

Department of Home (State Ministers)

S.No	State	Name	Party
1.	Andhra Pradesh	Taneti Vanita	YSRCP
2.	Arunachal Pradesh	Bamang Felix	BJP
3.	Assam	Himanta Biswa Sarma	BJP
4.	Bihar	Nitish Kumar	JD(U)
5.	Chhattisgarh	Tamradhwaj Sahu	INC
6.	Delhi	Satyendra Kumar Jain	AAP
7.	Goa	Pramod Sawant	BJP
8.	Gujarat	Bhupendra Patel	BJP
9.	Haryana	Anil Vij	BJP
10.	Himachal Pradesh	Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu	INC
11.	Jharkhand	Hemant Soren	JMM
12.	Karnataka	Araga Jnanendra	BJP
13.	Kerala	Pinarayi Vijayan	CPI(M)
14.	Madhya Pradesh	Dr. Narottam Mishra	BJP
15.	Maharashtra	Devendra Fadnavis	BJP
16.	Manipur	N. Biren Singh	BJP
17.	Meghalaya	Conrad Sangma	NPP
18.	Mizoram	Lalchamliana	MNF
19.	Nagaland	Y Patton	BJP
20.	Odisha	Naveen Patnaik	BJD
21.	Puducherry	A. Namassivayam	NRC
22.	Punjab	Bhagwant Mann	AAP
23.	Rajasthan	Ashok Gehlot	INC
24.	Sikkim	Prem Singh Tamang	SKM
25.	Tamil Nadu	M. K. Stalin	DMK
26.	Telangana	K Chandrasekhar Rao	BRS
27.	Tripura	Manik Saha	BJP
28.	Uttar Pradesh	Yogi Adityanath	BJP
29.	West Bengal	Mamata Banerjee	AITC
30.	Uttarakhand	Pushkar Singh Dhami	BJP

References

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External links

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