Atal Bihari Vajpayee Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian poet, writer and statesman who served as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 ...

was sworn in as

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for third time on 13 October 1999. He headed his Third Vajpayee Ministry. Here is the list of ministers in his ministry.

Reshuffles

In a reshuffle on 29 September 2000,

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

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), Satyabrata Mookherjee (

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Kanyakumari Kanyakumari (Tamil; / kəɳjɑkʊmɑɾiː/; referring to Devi Kanya Kumari, officially known as Kanniyakumari, formerly known as Cape Comorin) is a town and a municipality in Kanyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is the ...

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

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) as minister of state. Later that year Uma Bharti was elevated to cabinet ran

In a reshuffle in 2001 Vajpayee inducted Karia Munda,

Ved Prakash Goyal Ved Prakash Goyal (1926 – 17 December 2008) was an Indian politician and the Union Minister of shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in India from 2001 to 2003. He was the treasurer of Bharatiya Janata Party for a long time. He was ...

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and Tapan Sikdar as Cabinet ministers and Anna Sahib Patil, Ashok Pradhan,

Ravi Shankar Prasad Ravi Shankar Prasad (born 30 August 1954) is an Indian politician and lawyer, from the Bharatiya Janata Party. A Member of Parliament since 2000, first in the Rajya Sabha (2000–2019) and then in the Lok Sabha (since 2019), Prasad has served a ...

and Rajiv Pratap Rudy as ministers of stat

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 Prasad Sinha (born 15 July 1946) is an Indian actor and politician. He is a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Asansol constituency as a member of All India Trinamool Congress (TMC). Earlier he was elected as Member of Parliament ...

, Sahib Singh Verma,

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, Balasaheb Vikhe Patil. The new ministers of state were: Basangouda Patil, Sanjay Paswan, Shripad Yasso Naik,

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, Nikhil Chaudhary, S.Thirunavukarasar, Anant Geete and

A. K. Moorthy A.K. Moorthy is Indian politician who was a Deputy General Secretary of Pattali Makkal Katchi, PMK, Former Member of parliament, Lok Sabha, Former Union Minister of State for Railways in Atal Bihari led NDA government. He was born 12 July 19 ...

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 (; born 10 July 1951) is an Indian politician and lecturer who is serving the Defence Minister of India since 20 May 2019. He was also the Deputy Leader of the House, Lok Sabha since 2014. He also served the Home Minister in th ...

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

Nagmani Nagmani Kushwaha (born 15 Jan 1953) is an Indian politician from Bihar and Jharkhand. He is the son of another Bihar politician and Social ReformerJagdeo Prasad, in whose party Shoshit Samaj Dal, Nagmani started his career. He has served as an ...

(Rashtriya Janata Dal-Democratic), Prahlad Singh Patel (BJP) and P.C. Thomas (Indian Federal Democratic Party).

Council of Ministers

Cabinet Ministers

!Remarks

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Ministers of State

!Remarks

Demographics of the Council of Ministers

References

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