Minister of Home Affairs (India)

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The minister of home affairs or the home minister is the head of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India. One of the senior-most portfolios in the Central Cabinet, the chief responsibility of the home minister is the maintenance of the internal security of India; the country's large central police force comes under its jurisdiction. Occasionally, they are assisted by the minister of state of home affairs and the lower-ranked deputy minister of home affairs. Ever since the time of independent India's first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the office has been seen as second in seniority only to the prime minister in the Central cabinet. Like Patel, home ministers Yashwantrao Chavan and L. K. Advani have since held the additional portfolio of deputy prime minister. As of today, three home ministers have gone on to become the prime minister: Lal Bahadur Shastri, Charan Singh and P. V. Narasimha Rao. Amit Shah is the current and the longest serving home minister in history...

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