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Minister of External Affairs
*Videsh Mantrī*
Minister of External Affairs; Videsh Mantrī
	Emblem of India
	Incumbent; Subrahmanyam Jaishankar; since 30 May 2019
	Ministry of External Affairs
Appointer	President on the advice of the Prime Minister
Inaugural holder	Jawaharlal Nehru
Formation	2 September 1946

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The Minister of External Affairs (or simply, the Foreign Minister, in Hindi Videsh Mantri) is the head of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India. One of the senior-most offices in the Union Cabinet, the chief responsibility of the Foreign Minister is to represent India and its government in the international community. The Foreign Minister also plays an important role in determining Indian foreign policy. Occasionally, the Foreign Minister is assisted by a Minister of State for External Affairs or the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of External Affairs.

India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, also held the Foreign Minister post throughout his 17-year premiership of the country; he remains the country's longest-serving Foreign Minister. Several other Prime Ministers have since held the additional charge of foreign minister, but never has any other cabinet minister held additional charge of the office. There have been a number of Foreign Ministers who went on to become the Prime Minister like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, P. V. Narasimha Rao and I. K. Gujral.

The current Minister of External Affairs is Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, succeeding Sushma Swaraj of the Bharatiya Janata Party on 30 May 2019.

List of Foreign Ministers

№	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Length	Political party (Alliance)	Prime Minister
1	File:Jnehru.jpg	Jawaharlal Nehru	15 August 1947	27 May 1964	16 years, 286 days	Indian National Congress	Jawaharlal Nehru
2		Gulzarilal Nanda	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days		Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Lal Bahadur Shastri	9 June 1964	17 July 1964	38 days		Lal Bahadur Shastri
4		Swaran Singh	18 July 1964	14 November 1966	2 years, 119 days		Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi
5	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	M. C. Chagla	14 November 1966	5 September 1967	295 days		Indira Gandhi
6	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Indira Gandhi	6 September 1967	13 February 1969	1 year, 160 days
7		Dinesh Singh	14 February 1969	27 June 1970	1 year, 133 days
(4)		Swaran Singh	27 June 1970	10 October 1974	4 years, 105 days
8	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Yashwantrao Chavan	10 October 1974	24 March 1977	2 years, 165 days
9	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	26 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 124 days	Janata Party	Morarji Desai
10		Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan Singh
11	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	P. V. Narasimha Rao	14 January 1980	19 July 1984	4 years, 187 days	Indian National Congress	Indira Gandhi
(6)	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Indira Gandhi	19 July 1984	31 October 1984	104 days		Indira Gandhi
12		Rajiv Gandhi	31 October 1984	24 September 1985	328 days		Rajiv Gandhi
13	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Bali Ram Bhagat	25 September 1985	12 May 1986	230 days
14		P. Shiv Shankar	12 May 1986	22 October 1986	163 days
15	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	N. D. Tiwari	22 October 1986	25 July 1987	276 days
(12)		Rajiv Gandhi	25 July 1987	25 June 1988	336 days
(11)	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	P. V. Narasimha Rao	25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days
16		V. P. Singh	2 December 1989	5 December 1989	3 days	Janata Dal (National Front)	V. P. Singh
17	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	I. K. Gujral	5 December 1989	10 November 1990	340 days	Janata Dal (National Front)	V. P. Singh
18		Chandra Shekhar^[1]	10 November 1990	21 November 1990	11 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar
19		Vidya Charan Shukla	21 November 1990	20 February 1991	91 days
(18)		Chandra Shekhar^[2]	20 February 1991	21 June 1991	121 days
20		Madhavsinh Solanki	21 June 1991	31 March 1992	284 days	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
(11)	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	P. V. Narasimha Rao	31 March 1992	18 January 1993	293 days
(7)		Dinesh Singh	18 January 1993	10 February 1995	2 years, 23 days
21	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Pranab Mukherjee	10 February 1995	16 May 1996	1 year, 96 days
22		Sikander Bakht	21 May 1996	1 June 1996	11 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(17)	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	I. K. Gujral	1 June 1996	18 March 1998	1 year, 291 days	Janata Dal (United Front)	H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
(9)	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	19 March 1998	5 December 1998	261 days	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
23		Jaswant Singh	5 December 1998	1 July 2002	3 years, 208 days
24	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Yashwant Sinha	1 July 2002	22 May 2004	1 year, 326 days
25		Natwar Singh	22 May 2004^[3]	6 November 2005^[4]	1 year, 168 days	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)	Manmohan Singh
26		Manmohan Singh	6 November 2005	24 October 2006	352 days
(21)	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Pranab Mukherjee	24 October 2006^[5]	22 May 2009	2 years, 210 days
27		S. M. Krishna	22 May 2009	26 October 2012	3 years, 157 days
28		Salman Khurshid	28 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 210 days
29	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Sushma Swaraj	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	5 years, 4 days	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Narendra Modi
30	Error creating thumbnail: File missing	Subrahmanyam Jaishankar	30 May 2019	Incumbent	7 years, 75 days	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Narendra Modi

List of Ministers of State

Ministers of State of External Affairs
Minister of state	Portrait	Political party	Term		Years
V. K. Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	5 years, 4 days
M. J. Akbar			5 July 2016	17 October 2018	2 years, 104 days
V. Muraleedharan			30 May 2019	Incumbent	7 years, 75 days
Meenakshi Lekhi	Error creating thumbnail: File missing		7 July 2021	Incumbent	5 years, 37 days
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh			7 July 2021	Incumbent	5 years, 37 days

References

↑ "Council of Ministers" (PDF).
↑ "Council of Ministers" (PDF).
↑ Rediff.com dated 22 May 2004, accessed 25 October 200
↑ BBC News dated 7 November 2005, accessed 25 October 200
↑ The Hindu dated 25 October 2006, accessed 25 October 2006.

External links

[1] "Council of Ministers" (PDF).

[2] "Council of Ministers" (PDF).

[3] Rediff.com dated 22 May 2004, accessed 25 October 200

[BBC_News-4] BBC News dated 7 November 2005, accessed 25 October 200

[The_Hindu-5] The Hindu dated 25 October 2006, accessed 25 October 2006.

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