Minister of State, External Affairs

No   1.	Name   Laxmi N Menon	Took Office   16 April 1962	Left Office   9 September 964
2.	Laxmi N Menon	15 June 1964	24 January 1966
3.	Dinesh Singh	24 January 1966	13 March 1967
4.	Bali Ram Bhagat	14 November 1967	14 February 1969
5.	Surendrapal Singh	5 February 1973	10 October 1974
6.	Samarendra Kundu	16 August 1977	28 July 1979
7.	Bedabrata Barua	5 August 1979	13 January 1980
8.	Abubakar Abdul Rahim	3 September 1982	31 October 1984
9.	Ram Niwas Mirdha	2 August 1984	31 October 1984
10.	Abubakar Abdul Rahim	4 November 1984	31 December 1984
11.	Ram Niwas Mirdha	4 November 1984	31 December 1984
12.	Khurseed Alam Khan	31 December 1984	25 September 1985
13.	K R Narayanan	25 September 1985	22 October 1986
14.	Eduardo Falerio	12 May 1986	14 February 1988
15.	K Deepak kumar	22 October 1986	2 December 1989
16.	Prof. K K Tiwari	27 June 1988	4 December 1989
17.	Hari Kishore Singh	21 April 1990	10 November 1990
18.	Eduardo Falerio	21 June 1991	17 January 1993
19.	Raghunandan Lal Bhatia	2 July 1992	16 May 1996
20.	Salman Khursheed	19 January 1993	16 May 1996
21.	Saleem Iqbal Shervani	9 May 1997	19 March 1998
22.	Kamala Sinha	3 June 1997	19 March 1998
23.	Vasundhara Raje	19 March 1998	13 October 1999
24.	Ajit Kumar Panja	13 October 1999	15 March 2001
25.	U V Krishnam Raju	30 September 2000	22 July 2001
26.	Omar Abdullah	23 July 2001	23 December 2002
27.	Digvijay Singh	1 July 2002	22 May 2004
28.	Vinod Khanna	29 January 2003	22 May 2004
29.	Anand Sharma	29 January 2006	28 May 2009
29.	Shashi Tharoor	28 May 2009	current