Minister of Home Affairs (India)

Minister of Home Affairs
Minister of Home Affairs
	Emblem of India
	Flag of India
	Incumbent; Amit Shah; since 30 May 2019
	Ministry of Home Affairs
Style	The Honourable
Abbreviation	HM
Member of	Union Cabinet ; National Security Council
Reports to	Prime Minister,; Parliament of India
Seat	North Block, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
Appointer	President on the advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	5 years
Inaugural holder	Sardar Vallabhai Patel
Formation	15 August 1947
Website	mha.gov.in

The Minister of Home Affairs (or simply, the Home Minister) is the head of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India.

List of Home Ministers

№	Name	Term of office		Political party (Alliance)	Prime Minister
1	Vallabhbhai Patel	15 August 1947	12 December 1950	Indian National Congress	Jawaharlal Nehru
2	Jawaharlal Nehru	12 December 1950	26 December 1950
3	C. Rajagopalachari	26 December 1950	05 November 1951
4	Kailash Nath Katju	05 November 1951	10 January 1955
5	Govind Ballabh Pant	10 January 1955	25 February 1961
6	Lal Bahadur Shastri	25 February 1961	01 September 1963
7	Gulzarilal Nanda	01 September 1963	09 November 1966		Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi
8	Indira Gandhi	09 November 1966	13 November 1966		Indira Gandhi
9	Yashwantrao Chavan	13 November 1966	27 June 1970
(8)	Indira Gandhi	27 June 1970	05 February 1973
10	Uma Shankar Dikshit	05 February 1973	10 October 1974
11	Kasu Brahmananda Reddy	10 October 1974	24 March 1977
12	Charan Singh	24 March 1977	01 July 1978	Janata Party	Morarji Desai
13	Morarji Desai	01 July 1978	24 January 1979
14	Hirubhai M. Patel	24 January 1979	28 July 1979
(9)	Yashwantrao Chavan	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan Singh
15	Zail Singh	14 January 1980	22 June 1982	Indian National Congress	Indira Gandhi
16	R. Venkataraman	22 June 1982	02 September 1982
17	Prakash Chandra Sethi	02 September 1982	19 July 1984
18	P. V. Narasimha Rao	19 July 1984	31 December 1984		Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
19	Shankarrao Chavan	31 December 1984	12 March 1986		Rajiv Gandhi
(19)	P. V. Narasimha Rao	12 March 1986	12 May 1986
20	Buta Singh	12 May 1986	02 December 1989
21	Mufti Mohammad Sayeed	02 December 1989	10 November 1990	Janata Dal (National Front)	V. P. Singh
22	Chandra Shekhar	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	Samajwadi Janata Party (National Front)	Chandra Shekhar
(20)	Shankarrao Chavan	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
23	Murli Manohar Joshi	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
25	H. D. Deve Gowda	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	Janata Dal (United Front)	H. D. Deve Gowda
25	Indrajit Gupta	29 June 1996	19 March 1998	Communist Party of India (United Front)	H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
26	L. K. Advani	19 March 1998	22 May 2004	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
27	Shivraj Patil	22 May 2004	30 November 2008	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)	Manmohan Singh
28	P. Chidambaram	30 November 2008	31 July 2012
29	Sushilkumar Shinde	31 July 2012	26 May 2014
30	Rajnath Singh	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Narendra Modi
31	Amit Shah	30 May 2019	Incumbent	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Narendra Modi

Ministers of State of Home Affairs

№	Name	Term of office		Political Party	Prime Minister	Minister of Home Affairs
1	Subodh Kant Sahay^[1]	April 1990	November 1990	Janata Dal (National Front)	V. P. Singh	Mufti Mohammed Sayeed
2	Shriprakash Jaiswal^[2]	23 May 2004	2009	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)	Manmohan Singh	Shivraj Patil
2	Shriprakash Jaiswal^[2]	23 May 2004	2009			P. Chidambaram
3	R. P. N. Singh^[3]	28 October 2012	26 May 2014			Sushilkumar Shinde
4	Kiren Rijiju	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Narendra Modi	Rajnath Singh
5	G. Kishan Reddy	30 May 2019	Incumbent			Amit Shah
6	Nityanand Rai	30 May 2019	Incumbent			Amit Shah