who is the foreign minister of india in current.
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As of now there are 29 person have hold the post of Foreign Minister of India. Mrs. Indira Gandhi was the first woman Foreign Minister of India. She hold this position from 6 September 1967 to 13 February 1969.
Now let’s have a look on the list of Foreign Ministers of India till date;
Foreign Minister Tenure
Prime Minister
1. Jawaharlal Nehru Sept. 1946 to 27 May 1964
2. Gulzarilal Nanda 27 May 1964 to 9 June 1964
3. Lal Bahadur Shastri 9 June 1964 to 17 July 1964
4. Swaran Singh 18 July 1964 to 14 Nov. 1966
5. M. C. Chagla 14 Nov. 1966 to 5 Sept. 1967
6. Indira Gandhi 6 Sept. 1967 to 13 Feb. 1969
7. Dinesh Singh 14 Feb. 1969 to 27 June 1970
Swaran Singh (reappointed) 27 June 1970 to 10 Oct. 1974
8. Yashwantrao Chavan 10 Oct. 1974 to 24 March 1977
9.Atal Bihari Vajpayee 26 March 1977 28 to July 1979
(Janata Party )
10. Shyam Nandan Prasad Mishra 28 July 1979 to 13 January 1980
(Janata Party (Secular))
11. P. V. Narasimha Rao 14 Jan. 1980 to 19 July 1984
Indira Gandhi 19 July 1984 to 31 Oct. 1984
(reappointed)
12. Rajiv Gandhi 31 Oct. 1984 to 24 Sept. 1985
13. Bali Ram Bhagat 25 Sept. 1985 to 12 May 1986
14. P. Shiv Shankar 12 May 1986 to 22 Oct. 1986
15.N. D. Tiwari 22 Oct. 1986 to 25 July 1987
Rajiv Gandhi (Repeated) 25 July 1987 to 25 June 1988
P. V. Narasimha Rao 25 June 1988 to 2 Dec. 1989
(
reappointed)
16. V. P. Singh (Janta Dal) 2 Dec. 1989 to 5 Dec. 1989
17. I. K. Gujral 5 Dec. 1989 to 10 Nov. 1990
(Janata Dal (National Front))
18. Vidya Charan Shukla 21 Nov. 1990 to 20 Feb. 1991
(Samajwadi Janata Party)
19. Madhavsinh Solanki 21 June 1991 to 31 March 1992
P. V. Narasimha Rao 31 March 1992 to 18 January 1993
(reappointed)
Dinesh Singh 18 January 1993 to 10 February 1995
(reappointed)
20. Pranab Mukherjee 10 February 1995 to 16 May 1996
21. Sikander Bakht 21 May 1996 to 1 June 1996
I. K. Gujral (Janata Dal ) 1 June 1996 to 18 March 1998
Atal Bihari Vajpayee 19 March 1998 to 5 December 1998
(reappointed)
22. Jaswant Singh 5 Dec. 1998 to 23 June 2002
23.Yashwant Sinha 1 July 2002 to 22 May 2004
24. Natwar Singh 22 May 2004 TO 6 Nov. 2005
25. Manmohan Singh 6 Nov. 2005 to 24 Oct. 2006
Pranab Mukherjee 24 Oct. 2006 to 22 May 2009
(reappointed)
26. S. M. Krishna 22 May 2009 to 26 Oct. 2012
27. Salman Khurshid 28 Oct. 2012 to 26 May 2014
28. Sushma Swaraj 26 May 2014 to 30 May 2019
29. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar 30 May 2019 -- Incumbent
It is also observed that the Foreign Minister is assisted by a Minister of State for External Affairs or the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of External Affairs.
The data given in the above table shows that on many occasions a Prime Minister hold the post of foreign minister also and this trend is started by the very first prime minister of India Mr. Jawahar Lal Nehru.
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Answer:
The Foreign Minister of India is a S.jayashankar.