Question

List of railway minister of india till now

Answer 1

List of railway ministers

№

Name

Portrait

Term of office

Political party
(Alliance)

Prime Minister

-

Asaf Ali



2 September 1946

14 August 1947

Indian National Congress

None
(Interim govt)

1

John Mathai



15 August 1947

22 September 1948

Jawaharlal Nehru

2

N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar



22 September 1948

13 May 1952

3

Lal Bahadur Shastri



13 May 1952

7 December 1956

4

Jagjivan Ram

7 December 1956

10 April 1962

5

Swaran Singh

10 April 1962

21 September 1963

6

H. C. Dasappa

21 September 1963

8 June 1964

7

S. K. Patil

9 June 1964

12 March 1967

Lal Bahadur Shastri
Indira Gandhi

8

C. M. Poonacha

13 March 1967 and

14 February 1969

Indira Gandhi

9

Ram Subhag Singh

14 February 1969

4 November 1969

10

Panampilli Govinda Menon

4 November 1969

18 February 1970

11

Gulzarilal Nanda

18 February 1970

17 March 1971

12

K. Hanumanthaiya

18 March 1971

22 July 1972

13

T. A. Pai

23 July 1972

4 February 1973

14

Lalit Narayan Mishra

5 February 1973

2 January 1975

15

Kamalapati Tripathi

11 February 1975

23 March 1977

16

Madhu Dandavate

26 March 1977

28 July 1979

Janata Party

Morarji Desai

(13)

T. A. Pai

30 July 1979

13 January 1980

Janata Party (Secular)

Charan Singh

17

Kamalapati Tripathi

14 January 1980

12 November 1980

Indian National Congress

Indira Gandhi

18

Kedar Pandey

12 November 1980

14 January 1982

19

Prakash Chandra Sethi

15 January 1982

2 September 1982

20

A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury

2 September 1982

31 December 1984

Indira Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi

21

Bansi Lal

31 December 1984

4 June 1986

Rajiv Gandhi

22

Mohsina Kidwai

24 June 1986

21 October 1986

23

Madhavrao Scindia

22 October 1986

1 December 1989

24

George Fernandes



5 December 1989

10 November 1990

Janata Dal

V. P. Singh

25

Janeshwar Mishra

21 November 1990

21 June 1991

Samajwadi Janata Party

Chandra Shekhar

26

C. K. Jaffer Sharief

21 June 1991

16 October 1995

Indian National Congress

P. V. Narasimha Rao

27

Ram Vilas Paswan



1 June 1996

19 March 1998

Janata Dal
(United Front)

H. D. Deve Gowda
I. K. Gujral

28

Nitish Kumar



19 March 1998

5 August 1999

Samata Party
(NDA)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

29

Ram Naik

6 August 1999

12 October 1999

Bharatiya Janata Party
(NDA)

30

Mamata Banerjee



13 October 1999

15 March 2001

All India Trinamool Congress
(NDA)

(28)

Nitish Kumar



20 March 2001

22 May 2004

Janata Dal (United)
(NDA)

31

Lalu Prasad Yadav

23 May 2004

25 May 2009

Rashtriya Janata Dal
(UPA)

Manmohan Singh

(30)

Mamata Banerjee



26 May 2009

19 May 2011

All India Trinamool Congress
(UPA)

32

Dinesh Trivedi

12 July 2011

14 March 2012

33

Mukul Roy

20 March 2012

21 September 2012

34

C. P. Joshi



22 September 2012

28 October 2012

Indian National Congress
(UPA)

35

Pawan Kumar Bansal



28 October 2012

10 May 2013

(34)

C. P. Joshi



11 May 2013

16 June 2013

36

Mallikarjun Kharge

17 June 2013

25 May 2014

37

D. V. Sadananda Gowda

-

26 May 2014

9 November 2014

Bharatiya Janata Party
(NDA)

Narendra Modi

38

Suresh Prabhu



10 November 2014

3 September 2017

39

Piyush Goyal



3 September 2017

Incumbent

If the office of Minister of Railways is vacant for any length of time, it automatically comes under the charge of the Prime Minister.

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