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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.

As of Oct 2006, this position is currently held by Pranab Mukherjee of Indian National Congress Party.

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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 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[4] 24 October 2006[5] Prime Minister INC 14th (1st)
34. Pranab Mukherjee 24 October 2006[6] Till Date INC 14th (2nd)

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 1974
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. Anand Sharma 29 January 2006 current

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 21 June 1991

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Ministry of External Affairs Library Website accessed 24 Oct, 2006.
  2. ^ Rediff.com dated 22 May 2004, accessed 25 October 2006.
  3. ^ BBC News dated 7 November 2005, accessed 25 October 2006.
  4. ^ BBC News dated 7 November 2005, accessed 25 October 2006.
  5. ^ The Hindu dated 25 October 2006, accessed 25 October 2006.
  6. ^ The Hindu dated 25 October 2006, accessed 25 October 2006.

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