Vajpayee Cabinet and Ministry - 1999-2004

Cabinet

Portfolio Minister Took office
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee 13 October 1999 19 May 2004 BJP
Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani 29 June 2002
Minister of External Affairs Jaswant Singh 13 October 1999
  Yashwant Sinha 1 July 2002
Minister of Finance Yashwant Sinha 13 October 1999
  Jaswant Singh 1 July 2002
Minister of Defence George Fernandes 13 October 1999
  Jaswant Singh 16 March 2001
  George Fernandes 21 October 2001
Minister of Railways Mamata Banerjee 13 October 1999
  Nitish Kumar 20 March 2001 22 May 2004 JD(U)
Minister of Science and Technology Murali Manohar Joshi 13 October 1999
Minister of Labour Satyanarain Jatia 22 November 1999
  Sharad Yadav 1 September 2001
Minister of Health and Family Welfare Sushma Swaraj 30 September 2000
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Ram Naik 1999
Minister of Textiles Kashiram Rana 1999
  Syed Shahnawaz Hussain 25 May 2003
Minister of Rural Development Sunder Lal Patwa 13 October 1999
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Suresh Prabhu 13 October 1999
  Sunder Lal Patwa 30 September 2000
Minister of Mines Naveen Patnaik 13 October 1999
  Sunder Lal Patwa 7 November 2000
  Ram Vilas Paswan 2001
  Mamata Banerjee 9 January 2004
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shanta Kumar 13 October 1999 BJP
  Sharad Yadav 1 July 2002 15 May 2004 JD(U)
Minister of Commerce and Industry Murasoli Maran 1999
Minister of Environment and Forests T R Balu 1999
Minister of Communications Ram Vilas Paswan 1999
  Pramod Mahajan 1 September 2001 29 January 2003 BJP
Minister of Civil Aviation Sharad Yadav 13 October 1999
  Syed Shahnawaz Hussain 1 September 2001
Minister without portfolio Mamata Banerjee 15 March 2001
Minister of Law and Justice Ram Jethmalani 13 October 1999
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pramod Mahajan 13 October 1999
  Sushma Swaraj 30 September 2000
Minister of Tribal Affairs Jual Oram 13 October 1999
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Manohar Joshi 13 October 1999
Minister of Power P R Kumaramangalam 13 October 1999
  Suresh Prabhu 30 September 2000
Jagmohan


Ministers of state with independent charge

Maneka Gandhi
Arun Jaitley
Vasundhara Raje
Uma Bharti
M Kannapan
N T Shanmugham
Dilip Ray
Tripathy Braja  Kishore


Ministers of state
O. Rajagopal
Ramesh Bais
Bandaru Dattatreya
Ch. Vidyasagar Rao
Santosh Gangwar
Chaman Lal Gupta
Bijoya Chakravarty
Shriram Chauhan
Jaysinghrao Gaikwad Patil
Vallabhbhai Kathiria
Faggan Singh Kulaste
V Dhananjay Kumar
Bangaru Laxman
Rita Verma
Sumitra Mahajan
Subhash Maharia
Babulal Marandi
Jayawantiben Mehta
Muni Lall
Omar Abdullah
Ajit Kumar Panja
A. Raja