| Name |
TERM |
| 1. Shri N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar |
May, 1952 to February, 1953. |
| 2. Shri Charu Chandra Biswas |
February, 1953 to November, 1954. |
| 3. Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri |
November, 1954 to March, 1955. |
| 4. Shri Govind Ballabh Pant |
March, 1955 to February, 1961. |
| 5. Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim |
February, 1961 to August, 1963. |
| 6. Shri Y.B. Chavan |
August, to December, 1963. |
| 7. Shri Jaisukhlal Hathi |
February-March, 1964. |
| 8. Shri M.C. Chagla |
March, 1964 to November, 1967. |
| 9. Shri Jaisukhlal Hathi |
November, 1967 to November, 1969. |
| 10. Shri Kodradas Kalidas Shah |
November, 1969 to May, 1971. |
| 11. Shri Uma Shankar Dikshit |
May, 1971 to December, 1995. |
| 12. Shri Kamlapati Tripathi |
December, 1975 to March, 1977. |
| 13. Shri Lal K. Advani |
March, 1977 to August, 1979. |
| 14. Shri K.C. Pant |
August, 1979, to January, 1980. |
| 15. Shri Pranab Mukherjee |
January, 1980 to July, 1981 |
| August, 1981 to December, 1984 |
| 16. Shri Vishwanath Pratap Singh |
December, 1984 to April, 1987. |
| 17. Shri N.D. Tiwari |
April, 1987 to June, 1988. |
| 18. Shri P. Shiv Shankar |
July, 1988 to December, 1989. |
| 19. Shri M.S. Gurupadaswamy |
December, 1989 to November, 1990. |
| 20. Shri Yashwant Sinha |
December, 1990 to June, 1991. |
| 21. Shri S.B. Chavan |
July, 1991 to April, 1996. |
| 22. Shri Sikander Bakht |
20th May, 1996 to 31st May, 1996 |
| 23. Shri Inder Kumar Gujral |
June, 1996 to November, 1996. |
| 24. Shri H.D. Deve Gowda |
November, 1996 to April, 1997. |
| 25. Shri Inder Kumar Gujral |
April 1997 to March, 1998. |
| 26. Shri Sikander Bakht |
March 1998 to October, 1999. |
| 27. Shri Jaswant Singh |
13th October, 1999 to 22nd May, 2004. |
| 28. Dr. Manmohan Singh |
June, 2004 onwards. |
