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 and
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.