No.
|
Portrait
|
Name (born – died) Constituency
|
Term of office
|
Ministerial offices held
|
Political party
|
Government
|
Prime Minister
|
Chairman (Tenure)
|
1
|
|
|
N. Gopalaswamy Ayyangar (1882–1953) MP for
Tamil Nadu
|
13 May 1952
|
10 February 1953
[†]
|
|
Indian National Congress
|
Nehru II
|
Jawaharlal Nehru
|
|
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1952–1962)
|
2
|
|
|
Charu Chandra Biswas (1888–1960) MP for
West Bengal
|
February 1953
|
November 1954
|
|
3
|
|
|
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for
Uttar Pradesh
|
November 1954
|
March 1955
|
|
4
|
|
|
Govind Ballabh Pant (1887–1961) MP for
Uttar Pradesh
|
March 1955
|
March 1961
[†]
|
|
Nehru III
|
5
|
|
|
Hafiz Mohamad Ibrahim (1889–1968) MP for
Uttar Pradesh
|
March 1961
|
August 1963
|
- Minister of Irrigation and Power
|
Nehru IV
|
Zakir Husain (1962–1967)
|
6
|
|
|
Yashwantrao Chavan (1913–1984) MP for
Maharashtra
|
August 1963
|
December 1963
|
|
7
|
|
|
Jaisukhlal Hathi (1909–1982) MP for
Gujarat
|
February 1964
|
March 1964
|
|
8
|
|
|
M. C. Chagla (1900–1981) MP for
Maharashtra
|
March 1964
|
November 1967
|
|
Nanda I
|
Gulzarilal Nanda
|
|
Shastri
|
Lal Bahadur Shastri
|
|
Nanda II
|
Gulzarilal Nanda
|
|
Indira I
|
Indira Gandhi
|
|
V. V. Giri (1967–1969)
|
(7)
|
|
|
Jaisukhlal Hathi (1909–1982) MP for
Gujarat
|
November 1967
|
November 1969
|
|
Gopal Swarup Pathak (1969–1974)
|
9
|
|
|
Kodardas Kalidas Shah (1908–1986) MP for
Gujarat
|
November 1969
|
May 1971
|
|
Indira II
|
10
|
|
|
Uma Shankar Dikshit (1901–1991) MP for
Uttar Pradesh
|
May 1971
|
December 1975
|
|
B. D. Jatti (1974–1979)
|
11
|
|
|
Kamalapati Tripathi (1905–1990) MP for
Uttar Pradesh
|
December 1975
|
March 1977
|
|
12
|
|
|
Lal Krishna Advani (born 1927) MP for
Gujarat
|
March 1977
|
August 1979
|
|
Janata Party
|
Desai
|
Morarji Desai
|
|
Charan
|
Charan Singh
|
|
13
|
|
|
Krishna Chandra Pant (1931–2012) MP for
Uttar Pradesh
|
August 1979
|
January 1980
|
|
Indian National Congress (Urs)
|
Mohammad Hidayatullah (1979–1984)
|
14
|
|
|
Pranab Mukherjee (1935–2018) MP for
West Bengal (until 1971) MP for
Gujarat (from 1971)
|
January 1980
|
10 July 1981
|
|
Indian National Congress
|
Indira III
|
Indira Gandhi
|
|
14 August 1981
|
December 1984
|
Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1984–1987)
|
15
|
|
|
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008) MP for
Uttar Pradesh
|
December 1984
|
April 1987
|
|
Rajiv
|
Rajiv Gandhi
|
|
16
|
|
|
Narayan Dutt Tiwari (1925–2018) MP for
Uttar Pradesh
|
April 1987
|
June 1988
|
|
Shankar Dayal Sharma (1987–1992)
|
17
|
|
|
P. Shiv Shankar (1929–2017) MP for
Gujarat
|
June 1988
|
December 1989
|
|
18
|
|
|
M. S. Gurupadaswamy (1924–2011) MP for
Karnataka
|
December 1989
|
November 1990
|
|
Janata Dal
|
V. P. Singh
|
V. P. Singh
|
|
19
|
|
|
Yashwant Sinha (born 1937) MP for
Bihar
|
November 1990
|
June 1991
|
|
Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
|
Chandra Shekhar
|
Chandra Shekhar
|
|
20
|
|
|
Shankarrao Chavan (1920–2004) MP for
Maharashtra
|
July 1991
|
April 1996
|
|
Indian National Congress
|
Rao
|
P. V. Narasimha Rao
|
|
K. R. Narayanan (1992–1997)
|
21
|
|
|
Sikander Bakht (1918–2004) MP for
Madhya Pradesh
|
May 1996
|
June 1996
|
|
Bharatiya Janata Party
|
Vajpayee I
|
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
|
|
22
|
|
|
Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP for
Bihar
|
June 1996
|
November 1996
|
|
Janata Dal
|
Deve Gowda
|
H. D. Deve Gowda
|
|
23
|
|
|
H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) MP for
Karnataka
|
November 1996
|
April 1997
|
|
Self
|
(22)
|
|
|
Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP for
Bihar
|
April 1997
|
March 1998
|
|
Gujral
|
Inder Kumar Gujral
|
|
Krishan Kant (1997–2002)
|
(21)
|
|
|
Sikander Bakht (1918–2004) MP for
Madhya Pradesh
|
19 March 1998
|
13 October 1999
|
|
Bharatiya Janata Party
|
Vajpayee II
|
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
|
|
24
|
|
|
Jaswant Singh (1938–2020) MP for
Rajasthan
|
13 October 1999
|
22 May 2004
|
|
Vajpayee III
|
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (2002–2007)
|
25
|
|
|
Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP for
Assam
|
22 May 2004
|
26 May 2014
|
|
Indian National Congress
|
Manmohan I
|
Self
|
|
Manmohan II
|
Mohammad Hamid Ansari (2007–2017)
|
26
|
|
|
Arun Jaitley (1952–2019) MP for
Gujarat (till 2018) MP for
Uttar Pradesh (from 2018)
|
26 May 2014
|
2 April 2018
|
|
Bharatiya Janata Party
|
Modi I
|
Narendra Modi
|
|
3 April 2018
|
11 June 2019
|
M. Venkaiah Naidu (2017–2022)
|
27
|
|
|
Thawar Chand Gehlot (born 1948) MP for
Madhya Pradesh
|
11 June 2019
[3]
|
6 July 2021
|
|
Modi II
|
28
|
|
|
Piyush Goyal (born 1964) MP for
Maharashtra
|
14 July 2021
[4]
[5]
|
Incumbent
|
|
Jagdeep Dhankhar (2022–present)
|