Second Vajpayee Ministry
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister of India
Prime Minister of India
The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...

 for second time on 19 March 1998.Here is the list of ministers in his ministry.

Cabinet ministers

  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who served as the tenth Prime Minister of India three times – first for a brief term of 13 days in 1996, and then for two terms from 1998 to 2004. After his first brief period as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from...

  • L.K. Advani
  • Ananth Kumar
    Ananth Kumar
    Ananth Kumar, is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Bangalore South constituency of Karnataka and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party.-Early life:...

  • Sikander Bakht
    Sikander Bakht
    Sikander Bakht was a politician from India. He was one of the Indian statesman and one of tallest leaders of BJP.-Early life:...

  • Surjit Singh Barnala
    Surjit Singh Barnala
    Surjit Singh Barnala is an Indian politician from Punjab. During his career in Indian politics, he has been Governor of four states, Chief Minister of Punjab, a minister in the union cabinet twice and a vice-presidential candidate once.-Early life:Barnala was born in Ateli village, which was then...

  • George Fernandes
    George Fernandes
    George Mathew Fernandes is an Indian trade unionist, politician, journalist, agriculturist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He is a key member of the Janata Dal , and was the founder of the Samata Party...

  • Ramakrishna Hegde
    Ramakrishna Hegde
    Ramakrishna Mahabaleshwar Hegde was an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Karnataka for three terms and as Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Union government.-Early life:...

  • Satyanarayan Jatiya
    Satyanarayan Jatiya
    Satyanarayan Jatiya is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Ujjain constituency of Madhya Pradesh. He is a former federal minister of India and a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party...

  • Ram Jethmalani
    Ram Jethmalani
    Ram Jethmalani, : राम जेठ्मलानी,: رام جيٺملاڻي born 14 September 1923, in Shikharpur in Sindh, British India) is an Indian lawyer and politician. He has served in various posts such as Union Law Minister and Chairman of Bar Associations...

  • Murli Manohar Joshi
    Murli Manohar Joshi
    Murli Manohar Joshi was the Union Human Resources Development minister of India in the NDA government. Joshi is a leading member of the Bharatiya Janata Party...

  • K.Ramamurthy
  • Madan Lal Khurana
    Madan Lal Khurana
    Madan Lal Khurana is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi. He has also served as the Governor of Rajasthan.-Early life:...

  • P R Kumaramangalam
  • M.Thambi Durai
  • Nitish Kumar
    Nitish Kumar
    Nitish Kumār is an Indian politician currently serving as Chief Minister of Bihar, an eastern state of India. He leads the Janata Dal party...

  • Naveen Patnaik
    Naveen Patnaik
    Naveen Patnaik is an Indian politician and the current Chief Minister of Orissa, India and the chief of Biju Janata Dal, a regional political party in Orissa.-Personal life:...

  • Suresh Prabhu
  • Kashiram Rana
    Kashiram Rana
    Kashi Ram Rana is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party of India. In 1989, he was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha from Surat constituency in Gujarat. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004 from the same constituency...

  • R. Muthiah
    R. Muthiah
    Sedapatti R. Muthiah is an Indian politician of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He was one of the Top Leaders of AIADMK right from its creation and was Second in command in AIADMK till 1998...

  • Yashwant Sinha
    Yashwant Sinha
    Yashwant Sinha is an Indian politician and a former finance minister of India and foreign minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet...

  • Buta Singh
  • Sushma Swaraj
    Sushma Swaraj
    Sushma Swaraj is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Member of Parliament. She is currently the Leader of the Opposition in the 15th Lok Sabha. She is a former union cabinet minister of India and a former Chief Minister of Delhi. Also she served as the Chairperson of the BJP's...


Ministers of State

  • Omak Apang
  • Sukhbir Singh Badal
    Sukhbir Singh Badal
    Sukhbir Singh Badal ' is President of Shiromani Akali Dal political party. He is the son of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal...

  • Bandaru Dattatreya
    Bandaru Dattatreya
    Bandaru Dattatreya is an Indian politician. He was the president of the Andhra Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party . He is succeeded as president by Kishan Reddy. He has been elected thrice as member of parliament from Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency in India and was a Union Minister in...

  • Ramesh Bais
    Ramesh Bais
    Ramesh Bais is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Raipur constituency of Chhattisgarh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party....

  • Uma Bharti
    Uma Bharti
    Uma Ragini Bharti , is an Indian politician. She was born in Tikamgarh District, Madhya Pradesh to a religious Lodhi Rajput family and from a very young age, started holding discourses on Indian Epics.Her father was an atheist...

  • Dalit Ezhilmalai
    Dalit Ezhilmalai
    Dalit Ezhilmalai is a former Union minister of India. He is a leader of Pattali Makkal Katchi who was Union Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare in Second Vajpayee Ministry in 1998-99. He was lected to 12th Lok Sabha from Chidambaram...

  • Maneka Gandhi
    Maneka Gandhi
    Maneka Gandhi is an Indian politician, animal rights activist, environmentalist, former model and widow of the Indian politician, Sanjay Gandhi. She has been a minister in four governments, and has authored a number of books in the areas of etymology, law and animal welfare...

  • Santosh Gangwar
    Santosh Gangwar
    Santosh Gangwar is a former minister of state in Government of India and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party . He had been the Member of Parliament from the city of Bareilly for 20 years...

  • R.K. Kumar
  • Babulal Marandi
    Babulal Marandi
    Babu Lal Marandi was the first Chief Minister of Jharkhand. He is the founder and national president of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha . He is the Member of Parliament from Koderma Lok Sabha constituency. He was the Minister of State, Forests & Environment, Govt...

  • Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
    Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
    Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is a former Indian federal minister and a Bharatiya Janata Party leader. Born in Allahabad in 15 Oct 1957 he studied law and arts at Allahabad University, while Collage time he was President of Student Union Government Intermediate College Allahabad.He contested first for...

  • Ram Naik
    Ram Naik
    Ram Naik is an Indian politician.He was born in Atpadi, in Sangli district , Maharashtra, in a middle class deshastha family. He married Kunda Naik on May 17, 1960 and has 2 daughters...

  • A. K. Patel
    A. K. Patel
    A. K. Patel is former union minister of state in Government of India. He served as minister of state for chemicals and fertilisers in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1998 to 1999. He is a senior leader of Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party. He has been representing Mehsana in the Lok Sabha since...

  • Babagouda Patil
    Babagouda Patil
    Babagouda Patil is a former union minister of state of India. He was the minister of Rural Areas & Employment in Second Vajpayee Ministry.Babagouda Patil was elected to Lok Sabha from Belgaum in Karnataka on Bharatiya Janata Party ticket.He has been active in the farmers' movement in Karnataka.-...

  • Debendra Pradhan
    Debendra Pradhan
    Debendra Pradhan, born , is a former minister of state of India. He served as minister of state for surface transport in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. He was born in Angul in Orissa and studied MBBS. He was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha from Deogarh ....

  • Kabindra Purkayastha
    Kabindra Purkayastha
    Kabindra Purkayastha is a former union minister of state of India. He served as minister of state for communication in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1998 to 1999. He is a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam....

  • Vasundhara Raje
    Vasundhara Raje
    Vasundhara Raje was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan state of India from December 2003 till December 2008. She is the first woman Chief Minister of Rajasthan.- Early life :...

  • Dilip Ray
    Dilip Ray
    Dilip Ray is an Ex- Member of the Parliament of India representing Orissa in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He was a union minister of state for coal in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1998....

  • Sompal
    Sompal
    Sompal or Sompal Singh Shastri is a politian of Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh, India. He belongs to Bagpat district in Uttar Pradesh. He has been Minister for Agriculture for the national government and a member of the Planning Commission...

  • Satyapal Singh Yadav
    Satyapal Singh Yadav
    Satyapal Singh Yadav is a former union minister of state in Government of India. He was minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government from 1998 to 1999 and held the portfolio of food and consumer affairs...

  • R. Janarthanan
    R. Janarthanan
    Kadambur R. Janarthanan is a former union minister of India and a leader of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam . He was union Minister of State, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions with additional Charge of minister of State for Finance...

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