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Prime Minister and the Cabinet

October 13, 1999
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has been sworn-in as the Prime Minister of India. The
President Shri K.R. Narayanan administered the oath of office and secrecy at the

Rashtrapati Bhawan. Shri Vajpayee has assumed the office of the Prime Minister of
India for the third time.

Cabinet ministers

. LK Advani - Home

Ananth Kumar - Culture, Youth Affairs and
Sports

T R Balu - Environment and Forests

Ms Mamata Banerjee - Railways

George Fernandes - Defense

Jagmohan - Urban Development

Dr Satyanarain Jaitya - Urban Employment
and Poverty Alleviation

. Ram Jethamalani - Law, Justice and Com-

pany Affairs

. Manohar Joshi - Heavy Industries and Public

Enterprises

. Murli Manohar Joshi - Human Resource De-

velopment and Science and Technology.

. P R Kumaramangalam - Power
. Pramod Mahajan - Parliamentary Affairs and

Water Resources

. Murasoli Maran - Commerce and Industry

. Ram Naik - Petroleum and Natural Gas

. Nitish Kumar - Surface Transport

. Joel Oram - Tribal Affairs

. Ram Vilas Paswan - Communications

. Naveen Patnaik - Mines and Minerals

. Sunderlal Patwa - Rural Development

. Suresh Prabhu - Chemicals and Fertilizers

. Kashiram Rana - Textiles

. Shanta Kumar - Consumer Affairs and Public

Distribution

. Jaswant Singh - External Affairs
. Yashwant Sinha - Finance
. Sharad Yadav - Civil Aviation

Minister of state (Independent)

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. Maneka Gandhi - Social Justice and Empow-

erment

Arun Jaitley - Information and Broadcasting

M. Kannappan - Non-Conventional Energy
Sources

Dilip Ray - Steel

Ms Vasundhara Raje - Small-Scale Industries
N T Shanmugham - Health and Family Wel-
fare

Ms Uma Bharati - Tourism

Ministers of State

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Bandaru Dattatraya - Urban Development
Jaisingh Rao Patil - Human Resource Develop-
ment

Santosh Gangwar - Science and Technology
Chaman Lal Gupta - Civil Aviation

Dr Vallabhnhai Kathiriya - Heavy Industries and
Public Enterprises

Faggan Singh Kulaste - Parliamentary Affairs
V. Dhananjay Kumar - Finance

Bangaru Laxman - Planning and Program
Implementation

Ms Sumitra Mahajan - Human Resource Devel-
opment

. Subhash Maharia - Rural Development

. Babulal Marandi - Environment and Forests

. Ms Jayawanti Mehta - Power

. Munni Lal - Labor and Employment

. Omar Faroog Abdullah - Commerce and In-

dustries

. Ajit Kumar Panja - External Affairs

. Hiran Pathak - Defense

. Devendra Pradhan - Surface Transport

. E Punnuswami - Petroleum

. A Raja - Rural Development

. O Rajgopal - Law Justice and Company Af-

fairs

. Dr Raman - Commerce and Industries

- N G Ramachandran - Textiles

. Vidaya Sagar Rao - Home

. SBPPK Satyanarayanan Rao - Agriculture

. Bachi Singh Rawat - Defense

. Syed Shahnawaz Hussain - Food Processing
. Tapan Sikdar - Communication

. Digvijay Singh - Railways

. T. H. Chaoba Singh - Culture Youth Affairs

Sports

V. Sreenivasa Prasad - Consumer Affairs and
Public Distribution

I. D. Swami - Home

Dr (Ms.) Rita Verma - Mines and Minerals
Balasaheb Vikhe Patil - Finance

Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav - Agriculture

The Prime Minister will look after unallocated port-
folios. Ms Vasundhara Raje will also assist the Prime
Minister in handling the ministries of Personnel, Pub-
lic Grievances and Pensions, Department of En-

33. Ramesh Bais - Chemicals and Fertilizers
34. Bijoya Chakravarty - Water Resources
35. Shriram Chauhan - Parliamentary Affairs

ergy and Department of Space. Mr. Dilip Ray and
Santosh Gangwar will also assist the Minister of
Parliamentary Affairs.

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