Third Vajpayee ministry

Third Vajpayee ministry
18th ministry of the Republic of India
Date formed	13 October 1999
Date dissolved	22 May 2004
People and organisations
Head of government	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Deputy head of government	L. K. Advani
Head of state	K. R. Narayanan (until 25 July 2002) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (from 25 July 2002)
Member party	Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)
Status in legislature	Coalition
Opposition party	Indian National Congress (Congress alliance)
Opposition leader	Sonia Gandhi (in Lok Sabha) (13 October 1999 – 6 February 2004) Manmohan Singh (in Rajya Sabha) (21 March 1998 – 21 May 2004)
History
Election(s)	1999
Outgoing election	2004
Legislature term(s)	4 years, 7 months and 9 days
Predecessor	Second Council of Ministers of Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Successor	First Council of Ministers of Manmohan Singh

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister of India for third time on 13 October 1999. He headed his Third Vajpayee Ministry. Here is the list of ministers in his ministry.

Cabinet ministers

Portfolio	Minister		Took office	Left office	Party
Prime Minister		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	13 October 1999	19 May 2004	BJP
Deputy Prime Minister		L. K. Advani[1]	29 June 2002	22 May 2004	BJP
Minister of External Affairs		Jaswant Singh	13 October 1999	1 July 2002	BJP
		Yashwant Sinha	1 July 2002	22 May 2004	BJP
Minister of Finance		Yashwant Sinha	13 October 1999	1 July 2002	BJP
		Jaswant Singh	1 July 2002	22 May 2004	BJP
Minister of Home Affairs		L. K. Advani	13 October 1999	22 May 2004	BJP
Minister of Defence		George Fernandes[2]	13 October 1999	16 March 2001	JD(U)
		Jaswant Singh	16 March 2001	21 October 2001	BJP
		George Fernandes	21 October 2001	22 May 2004	JD(U)
Minister of Railways		Mamata Banerjee[3]	13 October 1999	16 March 2001	AITMC
		Nitish Kumar	20 March 2001	22 May 2004	JD(U)
Minister of Science and Technology		Murali Manohar Joshi[4]	13 October 1999	21 May 2004	BJP
Minister of Labour		Satyanarain Jatia[5]	22 November 1999	1 September 2001	BJP
		Sharad Yadav[6]	1 September 2001	30 June 2002	JD(U)
Minister of Health and Family Welfare		Sushma Swaraj[7]	30 September 2000	April 2004	BJP
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas		Ram Naik	1999	2004	BJP
Minister of Textiles		Kashiram Rana	1999	25 May 2003	BJP
		Syed Shahnawaz Hussain[8]	25 May 2003	2004	BJP
Minister of Rural Development		Sunder Lal Patwa	13 October 1999	30 September 2000	BJP
		Venkaiah Naidu	30 September 2000	30 June 2002	BJP
		Kashiram Rana	25 May 2003	22 May 2004	BJP
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers		Suresh Prabhu[9]	13 October 1999	30 September 2000	Shiv Sena
		Sunder Lal Patwa	30 September 2000	7 November 2000	BJP
Minister of Mines		Naveen Patnaik[10]	13 October 1999	8 March 2000	BJD
		Sunder Lal Patwa	7 November 2000	1 September 2001	BJP
		Ram Vilas Paswan[11]	2001	2002	LJP
		Mamata Banerjee	9 January 2004	May 2004	AITMC
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution		Shanta Kumar[12]	13 October 1999	30 June 2002	BJP
		Sharad Yadav[13]	1 July 2002	15 May 2004	JD(U)
Minister of Commerce and Industry		Murasoli Maran	1999	2002	DMK
Minister of Environment and Forests		T R Balu[14]	1999	2003	DMK
Minister of Communications		Ram Vilas Paswan[15]	1999	1 September 2001	LJP
		Pramod Mahajan	1 September 2001	29 January 2003	BJP
Minister of Civil Aviation		Sharad Yadav[16]	13 October 1999	31 August 2001	JD(U)
		Syed Shahnawaz Hussain[17]	1 September 2001	23 May 2003	BJP
Minister without portfolio		Mamata Banerjee[18]	15 March 2001	8 January 2004	AITMC
Minister of Law and Justice		Ram Jethmalani	13 October 1999	23 July 2000	BJP
		Arun Jaitley	23 July 2000	July 2002	BJP
		Jana Krishnamurthy	July 2002	January 2003	BJP
		Arun Jaitley	29 January 2003	21 May 2004	BJP
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs		Pramod Mahajan[19]	13 October 1999	29 January 2003	BJP
		Sushma Swaraj[20]	30 September 2000	29 January 2003	BJP
Minister of Tribal Affairs		Jual Oram[21]	13 October 1999	22 May 2004	BJP
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises		Manohar Joshi[22]	13 October 1999	9 May 2002	Shiv Sena
Minister of Power		P R Kumaramangalam[23]	13 October 1999	23 August 2000	BJP
		Suresh Prabhu[24]	30 September 2000	24 August 2002	Shiv Sena
		Anant Geete	26 August 2002	21 May 2004	Shiv Sena

• Jagmohan

Ministers of state with independent charge

• Maneka Gandhi
• Arun Jaitley
• Vasundhara Raje
• Uma Bharti
• M Kannapan
• N T Shanmugham
• Dilip Ray
• TRIPATHY, SHRI BRAJA KISHORE-Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Steel

Ministers of state

• O. Rajagopal
• Ramesh Bais
• Bandaru Dattatreya
• Ch. Vidyasagar Rao
• Santosh Gangwar
• Chaman Lal Gupta
• Bijoya Chakravarty
• Shriram Chauhan
• Jaysinghrao Gaikwad Patil
• Vallabhbhai Kathiria
• Faggan Singh Kulaste
• V Dhananjay Kumar
• Bangaru Laxman
• Rita Verma
• Sumitra Mahajan
• Subhash Maharia
• Babulal Marandi
• Jayawantiben Mehta
• Muni Lall
• Omar Abdullah
• Ajit Kumar Panja
• A. Raja

Reshuffles

In a reshuffle on 29 September 2000 MVenkaiah Naidu and Sushma Swaraj were inducted in the ministry as cabinet ministers and Shripad Yasso Naik (Goa), Satyabrata Mukherjee (West Bengal), Kanyakumari MP P.Radhakrishnan and film star-turned-MP U V Krishnam Raju (Andhra Pradesh) as minister of state. Later that year Uma Bharti was elevated to cabinet rank.[[File:]]

In a reshuffle in 2001 Vajpayee inducted Karia Munda, Ved Prakash Goyal, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain and Tapan Sikdar as Cabinet ministers and Anna Sahib Patil, Ashok Pradhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Rajiv Pratap Rudy as ministers of state.

In a reshuffle in 2002 he dropped four ministers and inducted four new cabinet ministers and nine new ministers of state. New cabinet ministers were: Shatrughan Sinha, Sahib Singh Verma, Jana Krishnamurthy, Balasaheb Vikhe Patil. The new ministers of state were: Basangouda Patil, Sanjay Paswan, Shripad Yasso Naik, Vinod Khanna, Nikhil Chaudhary, S.Thirunavukarasar, Anant Geete and A.K.Murthy .

In a reshuffle in 2003 Vajpayee inducted three new cabinet rank ministers and five ministers of state . The new cabinet ministers were :Rajnath Singh, B.C. Khanduri and Subodh Mohite. The new ministers of state were : Chinmayanand Swami (BJP), Kailash Meghwal (BJP), Nagmani (Rashtriya Janata Dal-Democratic), Prahlad Singh Patel (BJP) and P.C. Thomas (Indian Federal Democratic Party).

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