List of Railways Ministers of India

India has seen many railway ministers since of independence of India in 1947 and each railway minister has their own importance in the development of Indian Railways. Here we bring you the complete Railway Ministers of India list along with their basic details such as term of office, tenure and political party name with which they were associated.

List of Current And Past Railways Ministers of India

S. No	Name	From	To	Political Party
1	Ashwini Vaishnaw	7-Jul-21	Incumbent	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Piyush Goyal	3-Sep-17	7-Jul-21	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Suresh Prabhu	10-Nov-14	3-Sep-17	Bharatiya Janata Party
4	D. V. Sadananda Gowda	27-May-14	10-Nov-14	Bharatiya Janata Party
5	Mallikarjun Kharge	17-Jun-13	25-May-14	Indian National Congress
6	C. P. Joshi	11-May-13	16-Jun-13	Indian National Congress
7	Pawan Kumar Bansal	28-Oct-12	10-May-13	Indian National Congress
8	C. P. Joshi	22-Sep-12	28-Oct-12	Indian National Congress
9	Mukul Roy	20-Mar-12	21-Sep-12	Trinamool Congress
10	Dinesh Trivedi	12-Jul-11	14-Mar-12	Trinamool Congress
11	Mamata Banerjee	26-May-09	19-May-11	Trinamool Congress
12	Lalu Prasad Yadav	23-May-04	25-May-09	Rashtriya Janata Dal
13	Nitish Kumar	20-Mar-01	22-May-04	Janata Dal (United)
14	Mamata Banerjee	13-Oct-99	15-Mar-01	Trinamool Congress
15	Ram Naik	6-Aug-99	12-Oct-99	Bharatiya Janata Party
16	Nitish Kumar	19-Mar-98	5-Aug-99	Samata Party
17	Ram Vilas Paswan	1-Jun-96	19-Mar-98	Janata Dal
18	Jaffer Sharief	21-Jun-91	16-Oct-95	Indian National Congress
19	Janeshwar Mishra	21-Nov-90	21-Jun-91	Samajwadi Janata Party
20	George Fernandes	5-Dec-89	10-Nov-90	Janata Dal
21	Madhavrao Scindia	22-Oct-86	1-Dec-89	Indian National Congress
22	Mohsina Kidwai	24-Jun-86	21-Oct-86	Indian National Congress
23	Bansi Lal	31-Dec-84	4-Jun-86	Indian National Congress
24	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury	2-Sep-82	31-Dec-84	Indian National Congress
25	Prakash Chandra Sethi	15-Jan-82	2-Sep-82	Indian National Congress
26	Kedar Pandey	12-Nov-80	14-Jan-82	Indian National Congress
27	Kamalapati Tripathi	14-Jan-80	12-Nov-80	Indian National Congress
28	T. A. Pai	30-Jul-79	13-Jan-80	Janata Party (Secular)
29	Madhu Dandavate	26-Mar-77	28-Jul-79	Janata Party
30	Kamalapati Tripathi	11-Feb-75	23-Mar-77	Indian National Congress
31	Lalit Narayan Mishra	5-Feb-73	2-Jan-75	Indian National Congress
32	T. A. Pai	23-Jul-72	4-Feb-73	Indian National Congress
33	K. Hanumanthaiya	18-Mar-71	22-Jul-72	Indian National Congress
34	Gulzarilal Nanda	18-Feb-70	17-Mar-71	Indian National Congress
35	Panampilli Govinda Menon	4-Nov-69	18-Feb-70	Indian National Congress
36	Ram Subhag Singh	14-Feb-69	4-Nov-69	Indian National Congress
37	C. M. Poonacha	13-Mar-67	14-Feb-69	Indian National Congress
38	S. K. Patil	9-Jun-64	12-Mar-67	Indian National Congress
39	H. C. Dasappa	21-Sep-63	8-Jun-64	Indian National Congress
40	Swaran Singh	10-Apr-62	21-Sep-63	Indian National Congress
41	Jagjivan Ram	7-Dec-56	10-Apr-62	Indian National Congress
42	Lal Bahadur Shastri	13-May-52	7-Dec-56	Indian National Congress
43	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar	22-Sep-48	13-May-52	Indian National Congress
44	John Mathai	15-Aug-47	22-Sep-48	Indian National Congress
45	Asaf Ali	2-Sep-46	14-Aug-47	Indian National Congress