Ministers of State with independent charge

Senior Congress leader Salman Khursheed won the Lok Sabha polls from Farrukhabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He has also served as the president of the UP Congress committee and the minister of state for External Affairs in the Narsimha Rao-led government.

Dinsha Patel, who won from Kheda constituency in Gujarat on a Congress ticket, served as the Minister of State  in the first UPA government.