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Third Vajpayee ministry

Union Council of Ministers headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Summary

Union Council of Ministers headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Field	Value
cabinet_name	Third Atal Bihari Vajpayee ministry
cabinet_type	ministry
cabinet_number	21st
jurisdiction	the Republic of India
image	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (crop 2).jpg
date_formed	13 October 1999
date_dissolved	22 May 2004
government_head	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
deputy_government_head	L. K. Advani
state_head	K. R. Narayanan (until 25 July 2002)
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
(from 25 July 2002)
legislature_status	Coalition
election	1999
last_election	2004
legislature_term
opposition_party	Indian National Congress
(Congress alliance)
opposition_leader	Sonia Gandhi (in Lok Sabha)
(13 October 1999 – 6 February 2004)

previous	Second Vajpayee ministry
successor	First Manmohan Singh ministry
political_parties

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (from 25 July 2002) (Congress alliance) (13 October 1999 – 6 February 2004)

Manmohan Singh (in Rajya Sabha) (till 21 May 2004) 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 the Third Vajpayee Ministry. During its tenure, this ministry became the largest Union Council of Ministers in India's history, comprising around 88 ministers to managing the broad-based National Democratic Alliance including over two dozen coalition partners.

The cabinet's size was later prompted the 91st Constitutional Amendment in 2003, which capped the number of ministers at 15% of the Lok Sabha strength.

Reshuffles

In a reshuffle on 29 September 2000, Venkaiah Naidu and Sushma Swaraj were inducted in the ministry as cabinet ministers and Shripad Yasso Naik (Goa), Satyabrata Mookherjee (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.https://www.rediff.com/news/2000/sep/30cab.htm[[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.http://www.indiatodaygroup.com/btoday/20010930/people.html

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. Moorthy .http://www.kodava.org/kf/Jul2002/kf070202.htm

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).

Council of Ministers

Cabinet Ministers

!Remarks Ministry of Planning Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space And all other important portfolios and policy issues not allocated to any Minister. Minister of Science and Technology Bifurcated into Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and Ministry of Shipping. Alleviation to form the Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation. Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation. Bifurcated into Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries. Bifurcated into Ministry of Law and Justice and Department of Company Affairs. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Communications and Information Technology. Ministry of Culture. Tourism and Culture. Tourism and Culture. Merged with Ministry of Tourism to form Ministry of Tourism and Culture. Tourism and Culture.

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Ministers of State

!Remarks Affairs. (Defence Production and Supplies) and Pensions](minister-of-personnel-public-grievances-and-pensions) (Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances) Minister of State in the Department of Space (Food Processing Industries) Public Distribution. Public Distribution](ministry-of-consumer-affairs-food-and-public-distribution) Transport and Highways and Shipping. Development and Poverty Alleviation. Poverty Alleviation](minister-of-housing-and-urban-affairs) Ministry of Coal. and Justice and Ministry of Company Affairs. Communications and Information Technology. Technology](ministry-of-communications-and-information-technology-india) and Culture, and Department of Youth Affairs and Sports.

Demographics of the Council of Ministers

Party	Cabinet Ministers	Ministers of State(Independent Charge)	Ministers of State	Total
Bharatiya Janata Party	30	4	21	55
Shiromani Akali Dal	1	0	0	1
Shiv Sena	4	0	0	4
Samta Party	2	0	0	2
Lok Janshakti Party	1	0	0	1
All India Trinamool Congress	1	0	1	2
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	3	0	1	4
Biju Janata Dal	1	2	0	3
Janata Dal (United)	1	0	0	1

References

IndiaSpend. (2014-11-10). "Modi Team Still leaner than UPA, Previous NDA".
(2019-05-30). "Explained: The making of a Union Cabinet".

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