The Home Minister, or more properly the Minister for Home Affairs, is a position in the Indian Cabinet, at both State and Union levels. The Home Ministry

Ministry of Home Affairs (India)

Ministry of Home Affairs , known as the Home Ministry or MHA, is an Indian government ministry. It is an interior ministry mainly responsible for the maintenance of Internal security and domestic policy.-Ministerial Team:...

 is one of the most important, powerful and high profile ministry after the Prime Minister. The minister is in charge of the Internal administration of the country, with responsibility for

• all matters relating to Centre-State and Inter-State relations;
• all matters related to internal security;
• maintenance of law and order within the country;
• matters like Citizenship and Naturalisation Census of Population, National Anthem, National Flag, Official Languages; and
• basic functions under the Constitution like notification of assumption of office by the President, Vice-President, Prime Minister and other Ministers; notification of appointment, resignation and removal of Governors of States and Lieut. Governors and Administrators in Union Territories.

Home Ministers - Past and Current

In the past this position has been occupied by prominent statesman and politicians such as

• Sardar Patel
• C. Rajagopalachari
  C. Rajagopalachari
  Chakravarti Rajagopalachari , informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian lawyer, independence activist, politician, writer and statesman. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India...
  
  
• Kailash Nath Katju
• Govind Ballabh Pant
  Govind Ballabh Pant
  Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist, and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand and of the movement to establish Hindi as the official language of India.-Early life:Govind Ballabh Pant was born on September 10, 1887 in...
  
  
• Lal Bahadur Sastri
• Gulzari Lal Nanda
• Uma Shankar Dikshit
  Uma Shankar Dikshit
  Uma Shankar Dikshit was an Indian politician, cabinet minister and Governor of West Bengal and Governor of Karnataka.He was awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award in India in 1989, by the Government of India.-Early life and education:...
  
   (1973-1974)
• Morarji Desai
  Morarji Desai
  Morarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian independence activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977–79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress...
  
  
• Yashwantrao Chavan
  Yashwantrao Chavan
  Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the division of Bombay State and the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was a strong Congress leader, Cooperative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as Leader of Common People...
  
  
• Shankarrao Chavan
  Shankarrao Chavan
  Shankarrao Bhavrao Chavan was an Indian politician who served twice as Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1975 until 1977 and from 13 March 1986 until 24 June 1988...
  
  
• Giani Zail Singh
• Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
  Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
  Kasu Brahmananda Reddy at Hyderabad, was the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India from 29 February 1964 to 30 September 1971. On 3 June 1977 he was elected president of the Indian National Congress.-Early life:...
  
  
• P. V. Narasimha Rao
  P. V. Narasimha Rao
  Pamulaparti Venkata "Narasimha Rao" was the ninth Prime Minister of India . He led an important administration, overseeing a major economic transformation and several home incidents affecting national security of India. Rao accelerated the dismantling of the Licence Raj. He is often referred to as...
  
  
• Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
• Buta Singh
• Indrajit Gupta
  Indrajit Gupta
  Indrajit Gupta was a Communist leader who became Indias Union Minister for Home Affairs in the United Front government from 1996 to 1998...
  
  
• Lal Krishna Advani
  Lal Krishna Advani
  Lal Kishanchand Advani known as Lal Krishna Advani is a Veteran Indian politician. A former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party , which is currently the major opposition party in the Indian Parliament. He also served as a Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004...
  
  
• Shivraj Patil
  Shivraj Patil
  Shivraj Vishwanath Patil is an Indian politician and current state Punjab governor and the Administrator of Union Territory of Chandigarh. Previously he had been the Speaker of the 11th Lok Sabha and served the Manmohan Singh cabinet as the Union Minister of Home Affairs...
  
  
• P.Chidambaram.

Shivraj Patil

Shivraj Patil

Shivraj Vishwanath Patil is an Indian politician and current state Punjab governor and the Administrator of Union Territory of Chandigarh. Previously he had been the Speaker of the 11th Lok Sabha and served the Manmohan Singh cabinet as the Union Minister of Home Affairs...

 was forced to resign from the post of Minister Of Home Affairs on 30 Nov 2008 after a string of terrorist attacks during his tenure, most notably the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. He was succeeded by the incumbent P. Chidambaram

P. Chidambaram

P. Chidambaram or Chidambaram Palaniappan, sometimes written Palaniappan Chidambaram is an Indian politician with the Indian National Congress and present Union Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of India. Previously he was the Finance Minister of India from May 2004 to November 2008...

who is the current home minister in the Government of India.

External links

• Home Ministry, Govt. of India