Third Vajpayee Ministry
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister of India for third time on 13 October 1999.Here is the list of ministers in his ministry.
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[edit] Cabinet ministers
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Yashwant Sinha,
- Lal Kishenchand Advani
- Jaswant Singh
- Jagmohan
- Murli Manohar Joshi
- Pramod Mahajan
- Satyanarain Jatia
- Ram Naik
- Juel Oram
- Kashiram Rana
- P R Kumaramangalam
- Sunderlal Patwa
- Shanta Kumar
- Murasoli Maran
- T R Balu
- George Fernandes
- Nitish Kumar
- Ram Vilas Paswan
- Sharad Yadav
- Mamata Banerjee
- Manohar Joshi
- Suresh Prabhu
- Naveen Patnaik
- Ram Jethmalani
[edit] Ministers of state with independent charge
- Maneka Gandhi
- Arun Jaitley
- Vasundhara Raje
- Uma Bharti
- M Kannapan
- N T Shanmugham
- Dilip Ray
[edit] 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
[edit] Reshuffles
In a reshuffle on September 29,2000 MVenkaiah Naidu and Sushma Swaraj were inducted in the ministry as cabinet ministers and Shripad Yasso Naik (Goa), Satyabrata Mukherjee (West Bengal), Coimbatore MP P.Radhakrishnan and film star-turned-MP U V Krishnam Raju (Andhra Pradesh) as minister of state.[1]
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.[2]
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 .[3]
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).[4]
