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№ | Name | Term of office | Political party (Alliance) |
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1 | Vallabhbhai Patel | 2 September 1946 | 1949 | Indian National Congress | width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=6| | Jawaharlal Nehru |
2 | R. R. Diwakar[1] | 1949 | 15 April 1952 | |||
3 | B. V. Keskar[2] | 1952 | 1962 | |||
4 | Satya Narayan Sinha[3] | September 1963 | June 1964 | |||
Lal Bahadur Shastri | ||||||
5 | Indira Gandhi[4] | 1964 | 1966 | |||
6 | Kodardas Kalidas Shah[5] | 1967 | 1971 | Indian National Congress (R) | width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress (R)/meta/color" rowspan=1| | Indira Gandhi |
(5) | Indira Gandhi[6] | 1971 | 1974 | Indian National Congress | width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=3| | |
7 | Inder Kumar Gujral[7][8] | 1975 | 1975 | |||
8 | Vidya Charan Shukla[9] | 1975 | 23 March 1977 | |||
9 | Lal Krishna Advani[10] | 24 March 1977 | 28 July 1979 | Janata Party | width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| | Morarji Desai |
10 | Purushottam Kaushik[11] | 28 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | Janata Party (Secular) | width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Party (Secular)/meta/color" rowspan=1| | Charan Singh |
11 | Vasant Sathe[12] | 1980 | 1982 | Indian National Congress | width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=6| | Indira Gandhi |
12 | H. K. L. Bhagat[13][14] | February 1983 | December 1984 | |||
Rajiv Gandhi | ||||||
13 | V. N. Gadgil[15][14] | January 1985 | October 1986 | |||
14 | Ajit Kumar Panja[16][14] | 1986 | 1988 | |||
(12) | H. K. L. Bhagat[13] | February 1988 | December 1989 | |||
15 | P. Upendra[17] | 2 December 1989 | 10 November 1990 | Telugu Desam Party National Front |
width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Telugu Desam Party/meta/color" rowspan=1| | V. P. Singh |
16 | Chandra Shekhar[18] | 1990 | 1991 | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)/meta/color" rowspan=1| | Chandra Shekhar |
(14) | Ajit Kumar Panja[16][14] | 1991 | 1993 | Indian National Congress | width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=3| | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
17 | K. P. Singh Deo[19] | January 1993 | September 1995 | |||
18 | P. A. Sangma[20] | 1995 | 1996 | |||
19 | Jaipal Reddy[21][22] | 1996 | 1998 | Janata Dal National Front |
width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Janata Dal/meta/color" rowspan=2| | H. D. Dewe Gowda |
I. K. Gujral | ||||||
20 | Arun Jaitley | 1998 | 2000 | Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance |
width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=3| | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
21 | Sushma Swaraj[23] | 30 September 2000 | 29 January 2003 | |||
22 | Ravi Shankar Prasad | 2003 | 2004 | |||
(19) | Jaipal Reddy[21] | 23 May 2004 | 17 November 2005 | Indian National Congress United Progressive Alliance |
width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" rowspan=4| | Manmohan Singh |
23 | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi[24] | November 2005 | 2009 | |||
24 | Ambika Soni | May 2009 | 28 October 2012 | |||
25 | Manish Tewari | 28 October 2012 | 26 May 2014 | |||
26 | Prakash Javadekar[25][14] | 26 May 2014 | 9 November 2014 | Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance |
width="4px" bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" rowspan=4| | Narendra Modi |
(20) | Arun Jaitley | 9 November 2014 | 5 July 2016 | |||
27 | Venkaiah Naidu | 5 July 2016 | 17 July 2017 | |||
28 | Smriti Irani | 18 July 2017 | Incumbent |
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