Minister of Law and Justice

Minister of Law and Justice
Incumbent
Ravi Shankar Prasad
since 5 July 2016
Ministry of Law and Justice
Style The Honourable
Nominator Prime Minister
Appointer President (on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Inaugural holder Babasaheb Ambedkar
Formation 15 August 1947
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The Minister of Law and Justice is the head of the Ministry of Law and Justice and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India.

The first Law and Justice minister of independent India was Babasaheb Ambedkar, who served in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet during 1947–52. Ravi Shankar Prasad, the current Law and Justice minister of India.

List of Law & Justice Ministers

Name Portrait Term of office Party Prime Minister
B. R. Ambedkar[1] 15 August 1947 1952 Congress Jawaharlal Nehru
Charu Chandra Biswas[2] May 1952 April 1957
Ashoke Kumar Sen[3] 1957 1966
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Gopal Swarup Pathak 1966 1967 Indira Gandhi
Shanti Bhushan[3] 1977 1979 JP Morarji Desai
Hans Raj Khanna 1979 1979 JNP (S) Charan Singh
P. Shiv Shankar[4] 1980 1982 Congress Indira Gandhi
Jagannath Kaushal[5] 1982 1984
Ashoke Kumar Sen[3] 1984 1987 Rajiv Gandhi
P. Shiv Shankar[4] 1987 1988
Bindeshwari Dubey 14 February 1988 26 June 1988
B. Shankaranand[6] June 1988 December 1989
Dinesh Goswami[7] 2 December 1989 10 November 1990 AGP V. P. Singh
Subramanian Swamy[8] 1990 1991 JP Chandra Shekhar
Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy[9] 1991 1992 Congress P. V. Narasimha Rao
Ram Jethmalani 16 May 1996 1 June 1996 BJP Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Ramakant Khalap[10][11] 1 June 1996 21 April 1997 MGP H. D. Dewe Gowda
M. Thambidurai[12] 19 March 1998 April 1999 AIADMK
NDA		 Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Ram Jethmalani October 1999 23 July 2000 BJP
NDA
Arun Jaitley[13] 23 July 2000 July 2002
Jana Krishnamurthy[14] July 2002 January 2003
Arun Jaitley 29 January 2003 21 May 2004
H. R. Bhardwaj 22 May 2004 28 May 2009 Congress
UPA		 Manmohan Singh
Veerappa Moily[15] 31 May 2009 19 July 2011
Salman Khurshid[16] July 2011 28 October 2012
Ashwani Kumar 28 October 2012 10 May 2013
Kapil Sibal[17] 11 May 2013 26 May 2014
Ravi Shankar Prasad 26 May 2014 9 November 2014 BJP
NDA		 Narendra Modi
D. V. Sadananda Gowda 9 November 2014 5 July 2016
Ravi Shankar Prasad 5 July 2016 Incumbent

References

  1. ↑ RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 - 2003: A
  2. ↑ RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 - 2003: B
  3. 1 2 3 RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 - 2003:
  4. 1 2 Biographical Sketch, Member of Parliament, 12th Lok Sabha : SHIV SHANKER, SHRI P.
  5. ↑ 8th Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : KAUSHAL, SHRI JAGANNATH
  6. ↑ Tenth Lok sabha;, Members Bioprofile; SHANKARANAND, SHRI B.; Lok Sabha/National Informatics Centre
  7. ↑ RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 - 2003: G
  8. ↑ Biographical Sketch, Member of Parliament, 12th Lok Sabha: SWAMY, DR. SUBRAMANIAN
  9. ↑ Biographical Sketch, Member of Parliament, 12th Lok Sabha: REDDY, SHRI KOTLA VIJAYA BHASKARA
  10. ↑ Biographical Sketch, Member of Parliament, XI LOK SABHA : KHALAP, SHRI RAMAKANT D. Archived 17 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑ Minister of State (Independent Charge)
  12. ↑ Sixteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : Thambidurai,Dr. Munisamy
  13. ↑ Jaitley was Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Law and Justice till 7 November 2000, then was Union Cabinet Minister
  14. ↑ RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 - 2003: K
  15. ↑ Sixteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile: Moily, Dr. M. Veerappa
  16. ↑ Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile: Khurshid, Shri Salman
  17. ↑ Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile: Sibal, Shri Kapil
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