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 third time on 13 October 1999.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...
  
  
• 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...
  
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• Lal Kishenchand Advani
• Jaswant Singh
  Jaswant Singh
  - Career :He is one of the few Indian politicians to have been the Minister for Defence, Finance and External Affairs.He started the new government of Vajpayee, which lasted its full term, as the External Affairs Minister and later on switched his ministry to Finance with Yashwant Sinha...
  
  
• Jagmohan
  Jagmohan
  Jag Mohan Malhotra is an Indian politician. He was born on 25 September 1927 in Hafizabad, Punjab in British India.*He is a former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state in India.*He was in government service for many years....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Pramod Mahajan
  Pramod Mahajan
  Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan was a prominent Indian politician. He was one of the most powerful second generation leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and, at the time of his death, was locked in a power struggle over who would take over the reins of the BJP when the current aging leadership...
  
  
• Satyanarain Jatia
• 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...
  
  
• Juel Oram
• 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...
  
  
• P R Kumaramangalam
• Sunderlal Patwa
• Shanta Kumar
  Shanta Kumar
  Shanta Kumar is a former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and a former minister in Government of India. He is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha from Kangra constituency in 1989. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998 and 1999 from the same constituency...
  
  
• Murasoli Maran
  Murasoli Maran
  Murasoli Maran was a prominent Tamil politician in India, and an important leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party which is headed by his maternal uncle and mentor, M. Karunanidhi. A Member of Parliament for 36 years, he was made a Union Minister in three separate central governments, in...
  
  
• T R Balu
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Ram Vilas Paswan
  Ram Vilas Paswan
  Ram Vilas Paswan is the president of the Lok Janshakti Party and a Rajya Sabha MP.-Early life and education:Paswan was born to a Dusadh family...
  
  
• Sharad Yadav
  Sharad Yadav
  Sharad Yadav, a politician from the Janata Dal party, is currently a Member of the Parliament of India representing the Madhepura constituency of Bihar in the Lok Sabha...
  
  
• Mamata Banerjee
  Mamata Banerjee
  Mamata Banerjee is the 11th and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal. She is the first woman to hold the office. Banerjee founded All India Trinamool Congress in 1997 and became chairperson, after separating from the Indian National Congress...
  
  
• Manohar Joshi
  Manohar Joshi
  Manohar Gajanan Joshi, is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He is one of the prominent leaders of the Shiv Sena political party. He was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1995–1999.-Background and family:...
  
  
• Suresh Prabhu
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Ministers of state with independent charge

• 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...
  
  
• Arun Jaitley
  Arun Jaitley
  Arun Jaitley is a prominent Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party , which is currently the largest Opposition party in India...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• M Kannapan
• N T Shanmugham
• 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....
  
  

Ministers of state

• O. Rajagopal
  O. Rajagopal
  O. Rajagopal is an Indian public figure and former Union Minister who is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party . Due to the low odds of election in the state of Kerala, Rajagopal represented Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha from 1992 until 2004-Early life:He was born on September 15, 1929...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Ch. Vidyasagar Rao
• 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...
  
  
• Chaman Lal Gupta
  Chaman Lal Gupta
  Chaman Lal Gupta is a former minister of state in the Government of India. He was union minister of state of defence from 2002 to 2004. Earlier, he held a portfolio of food processing and civil avaiation....
  
  
• Bijoya Chakravarty
  Bijoya Chakravarty
  Bijoya Chakravarty , is an Indian politician from the Bhartiya Janata Party.-Background:Bijoya began her political career in the Janata Party. She subsequently joined the regional Asom Gana Parishad and served in the Rajya Sabha from 1986 to 1992...
  
  
• Shriram Chauhan
  Shriram Chauhan
  Shriram Chauhan is a former union minister of state of India. He was minister of state for consumer affairs in Vajpayee ministry from 1999 to 2001. He was elected to 13th Lok Sabha from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. He was born in 1953 in Basti. He was imprisoned in the emergency in 1975.- External...
  
  
• Jaysinghrao Gaikwad Patil
• Vallabhbhai Kathiria
  Vallabhbhai Kathiria
  Dr. Vallabhbhai Kathiria is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Rajkot constituency of Gujarat and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.He was a minister of state in Vajpayee ministry.-External links:*...
  
  
• Faggan Singh Kulaste
  Faggan Singh Kulaste
  Faggan Singh Kulaste is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Mandla constituency of Madhya Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party....
  
  
• V Dhananjay Kumar
• Bangaru Laxman
  Bangaru Laxman
  Bangaru Laxman is an Indian politician. He was a minister of state for railways in Government of India from 1999 to 2000. Later he became President of Bharatiya Janata Party but resigned soon after Tehelka corruption case.-Early life:...
  
  
• Rita Verma
  Rita Verma
  Rita Verma is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is a former Minister of State of Mines and Minerals in the Indian government....
  
  
• Sumitra Mahajan
  Sumitra Mahajan
  Sumitra Mahajan is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party. Currently, she is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India...
  
  
• Subhash Maharia
  Subhash Maharia
  Subhash Maharia is a former union minister of state, rural development in Government of India. He was minister from 1999 to 2004...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Jayawantiben Mehta
  Jayawantiben Mehta
  Jayawantiben Mehta is an Indian politician. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party .She was born in Aurangabad in Maharashtra....
  
  
• Muni Lall
  Muni Lall
  Muni Lall is a former Union minister of state of India. He was minister of state for labour and employment in Third Vajpayee Ministry. A leader of Bharatiya Janata Party he was elected to 11th,12th and 13th Lok Sabha from Sasaram in Bihar...
  
  
• Omar Abdullah
  Omar Abdullah
  Omar Abdullah , born 10 March 1970 in United Kingdom, is an Indian Kashmiri politician and the scion of Kashmir's 'first family', the Abdullah family who became the 11th and the youngest Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir after forming a government in coalition with the Congress party, on...
  
  
• Ajit Kumar Panja
  Ajit Kumar Panja
  Ajit Kumar Panja was a former Union minister of state in the Government of India. He was a member of Congress party but left it to join Trinamool Congress. He was born in Calcutta and studied law at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta and at the Lincoln's Inn. A lawyer by profession, he...
  
  
• A. Raja
  A. Raja
  Andimuthu Raja is an Indian politician from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam political party. He was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing the Nilgiris constituency of Tamil Nadu....
  
  

Reshuffles

In a reshuffle on 29 September 2000 MVenkaiah Naidu

Venkaiah Naidu

M. Venkaiah Naidu is an Indian politician. From 2002 to 2004, he was the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is currently the opposition party in the Parliament of India. He resigned on October 18, 2004 and was succeeded by L.K...

 and 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...

 were inducted in the ministry as cabinet ministers and Shripad Yasso Naik

Shripad Yasso Naik

Shripad Yasso Naik is an Indian politician. He is the president of the Goa state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In 1999, he was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from Panaji constituency in Goa. He was re-elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004 from the same constituency...

 (Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

), Satyabrata Mukherjee (West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

), Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari

Kanyakumari is a town in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. It is also sometimes referred to as Cape Comorin. Located at the southernmost tip of the Indian Peninsula, it is the geographical end of the Indian mainland. The district in Tamil Nadu where the town is located is called Kanyakumari...

 MP P.Radhakrishnan and film star-turned-MP U V Krishnam Raju (Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

) as minister of state.http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/sep/30cab.htm

In a reshuffle in 2001 Vajpayee inducted Karia Munda, Ved Prakash Goyal

Ved Prakash Goyal

Ved Prakash Goyal was an Indian politician and the Union Minister of shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in India from 2001-2003. He was the treasurer of Bharatiya Janata Party for a long time. He was a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.- Early life :He...

, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain

Syed Shahnawaz Hussain

Syed Shahnawaz Hussain is a former Indian federal minister and a politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party.Born in Bihar in 1968, he studied for diploma in engineering at Patna and Delhi. He was elected to Lok Sabha in 1999 and was appointed Minister of State for food processing industries, youth...

 and Tapan Sikdar

Tapan Sikdar

Tapan Sikdar is a former Union minister of state in the National Democratic Alliance government of India and a Bharatiya Janata Party politician. He is known for his honesty in Indian politics. He was born on 20th September 1944 in Jessore. His father Dr.D.N. Sikdar was a renowned physician. His...

 as Cabinet ministers and Anna Sahib Patil, Ashok Pradhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad is an Indian lawyer and politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party . He represents Bihar in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India...

 and Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Rajiv Pratap Rudy is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Bihar, India. He is a National Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party...

 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

Shatrughan Sinha

Shatrughan Sinha is an Indian film actor and politician. Apart from being member of Rajya Sabha twice he was also Union Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Shipping...

, Sahib Singh Verma

Sahib Singh Verma

Sahib Singh Verma was an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Chief Minister of Delhi and was member of 13th Lok Sabha, Parliament of India...

, Jana Krishnamurthy, Balasaheb Vikhe Patil. The new ministers of state were: Basangouda Patil

Basangouda Patil

Basangouda Ramangouda Patil is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Bijapur constituency of Karnataka and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party....

, Sanjay Paswan, Shripad Yasso Naik

Shripad Yasso Naik

Shripad Yasso Naik is an Indian politician. He is the president of the Goa state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In 1999, he was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from Panaji constituency in Goa. He was re-elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004 from the same constituency...

, Vinod Khanna

Vinod Khanna

-Early life:Khanna was born to Kamla and Kishanchand Khanna, a textiles, dyes and chemicals businessman of Hindu Punjabi Khatri origin, on 6 October 1946, in Peshawar, British India . He has three sisters and one brother...

, Nikhil Chaudhary , S.Thirunavukarasar, Anant Geete

Anant Geete

Anant Gangaram Geete is an Indian politician and a current member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Raigad constituency in Maharashtra by defeating sitting MP and Cabinet Minister A R Antulay...

 and A.K.Murthy .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

Rajnath Singh

Rajnath Singh is a prominent Indian politician and who has served the country in many capacities. He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, a Cabinet Minister in the NDA regime and became the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is the single largest Opposition party in India...

, B.C. Khanduri and Subodh Mohite. The new ministers of state were : Chinmayanand Swami (BJP), Kailash Meghwal

Kailash Meghwal

Kailash Meghwal is a former union minister of state in Government of India and a national vice president of Bharatiya Janata Party. He represents Tonk constituency of Rajasthan in 14th Lok Sabha...

 (BJP), Nagmani (Rashtriya Janata Dal-Democratic), Prahlad Singh Patel

Prahlad Singh Patel

Prahlad Singh Patel is a former union minister of state of India. He was minister of state for coal in Third Vajpayee Ministry. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh in 1999 on Bharatiya Janata Party ticket...

 (BJP) and P.C. Thomas (Indian Federal Democratic Party).http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/05/25/stories/2003052503890100.htm

External links

• http://www.rediff.com/election/1999/oct/13vaj.htm
• http://pib.nic.in/profile/cabinet.html
• http://pib.myiris.com/council.php3