Third Vajpayee ministry
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:Infobox government cabinet Template:Atal Bihari Vajpayee series Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister of India for third time on 13 October 1999. He headed his Third Vajpayee Ministry. Here is the list of ministers in his 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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[1][[File:[2]Template:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".]]
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.[3]
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 .[4]
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).[5]Template:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">usurped]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Council of Ministers
Cabinet Ministers
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Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
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Ministers of State
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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 |
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