Ministry of Law and Justice

Kiren Rijiju is the Law and Justice Minister of India

The Ministry of Law and Justice is one of the oldest ministry in India. The ministry administers the responsibility and take charge of the policy formulation of the legal affairs, justice and legislative affairs in the country. The ministry is headed by the Minister of Law and justice and presently Kiren Rijiju is the Minister of law and Justice. Ravi Shankar Prasad from BJP was the last Minister to hold the position before the Cabinet re-shuffling. Some other ministers to held the position are B.R. Bedchamber, Ashanti Bushman, Bahamanian Seamy, Ram Jethmalani, Arun Jaitley, Salman Khurshid and Ashwani Kumar.

S. No	Name	From	To	Political Party
0	Kiren Rijiju	July 07, 2021	Incumbent	Bharatiya Janata Party
1	Ravi Shankar Prasad	July 05, 2016	July 06, 2021	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	Nov 10, 2014	July 05, 2016	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Ravi Shankar Prasad	May 26, 2014	Nov 10, 2014	Bharatiya Janata Party
4	Kapil Sibal	May 11, 2013	May 25, 2014	Indian National Congress
5	Ashwani Kumar	Oct 29, 2012	May 10, 2013	Indian National Congress
6	Salman Khurshid	May 28, 2011	Oct 28, 2012	Indian National Congress
7	Veerappa Moily	May 28, 2009	May 28, 2011	Indian National Congress
8	H. R. Bhardwaj	May 22, 2004	May 28, 2009	Indian National Congress
9	Arun Jaitley	2000	2002	Bharatiya Janata Party
10	Ram Jethmalani	1996	2000	Bharatiya Janata Party
11	Subramanian Swamy	1990	1991	Bharatiya Janata Party
12	Ashoke Kumar Sen	1985	1991	Indian National Congress
13	Hans Raj Khanna	1979	1979	Indian National Congress
14	Shanti Bhushan	1977	1979	Janata Party
15	Chaudhary Nitiraj Singh Daulat Singh	1971	1977	Indian National Congress
16	Panampilly Govinda Menon	1969	1970	Indian National Congress
17	Ashoke Kumar Sen	1957	1969	Indian National Congress
18	B. R. Ambedkar	1947	1952	Indian National Congress