Prime Minister: Atal Bihari Vajpayee (also in charge of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions, Planning, Atomic Energy, Space):
Cabinet Ministers:
Deputy prime minister, Home, Coal and Mines: Lal Krishna Advani.
External Affairs: Yashwant Sinha
Defence: George Fernandes.
Law and Justice: Jana Krishnamurthi
Health and Family Welfare: Shatrughan Sinha
Heavy Industry: Balasahib Vikhe Patil
Labour: Sahib Singh Verma.
Commerce and Industry: Murasoli Maran.
Petroleum and Natural Gas: Ram Naik.
Railways: Nitish Kumar.
Information and Broadcasting: Sushma Swaraj.
Civil Aviation: Syed Shahnawaz Hussain.
Disinvestment: Arun Shourie.
Agriculture: Ajit Singh.
Shipping: Ved Prakash Goel.
Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation: Ananth Kumar.
Environment and Forests: T.R. Balu.
Minister of Tourism and Culture: Jagmohan Malhotra.
Social Justice and Empowerment: Satya Narayan Jatiya.
Human Resources Development, Science and Technology, Ocean Development: Murli Manohar Joshi.
Parliamentary Affairs, Communications, Information Technology: Pramod Mahajan.
Rural Development: Shanta Kumar.
Tribal Affairs: Jual Oram.
Water Resources: Arjun Sethi.
Chemicals and Fertilizers: Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa.
Power, Heavy Industries, Public Enterprises: Suresh Prabhu.
Textiles: Kashiram Rana.
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution: Sharad Yadav.
Youth Affairs and Sports: Uma Bharti.
Agri and Rural Industries: Kariya Munda.
Ministers of State: (Independent Charge)
Non-Conventional Energy Sources: M. Kannappan.
Planning, Small Scale Industries, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Atomic Energy, Space: Vasundhara Raje.
Steel: Braj Kishore Tripathi.
Road Transport and Highways: B.C. Khanduri.
Food Processing Industries: N.T. Shanmugam.
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Ministers of State:
a) External Affairs: Omar Abdullah. b) External Affairs: Digvijay Singh.
a) Home: I.D. Swami. b) Home: Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao.
a) Defence: Chaman Lal Gupta. b) Defence: Krishnamraju.
a) Finance: Gingee N. Ramachandran. b) Finance: Anant Geethe.
Information and Broadcasting: Ramesh Bais.
Communication and IT: Sumitra Mahajan.
Commerce and Industry: Raman Singh.
Civil Aviation: Shripad Naik.
Tourism and Culture: Vinod Khanna.
Water Resources: Bijoya Chakravarty
Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation: Bandaru Dattatraya.
Petroleum and Natural Gas, Parliamentary Affairs: Santosh Kumar Gangwar.
Industries, Public Enterprises: Vallabh Bhai Ramjibhai Kathiria.
Textile: Basangouda Patil.
Communications and IT: Sanjay Paswan.
Agro and Rural Industries: Nikhil Chaudhary.
Shipping: S. Thirunavukarasar.
Railways: A. K. Murthy.
Tribal Affairs: Faggan Singh Kulaste.
Textile: V. Dhananjaya Kumar.
Rural Development: Subhash Maharia.
Power: Jayawanti Mehta.
Consumer Affairs: Krishmam Raju.
Social Justice and Empowerment: Satyabrata Mookherjee.
Labour: Ashok Pradhan.
Youth Affairs and Sports: P. Radhakrishnan.
Health and Family Welfare: A. Raja.
Urban Development and Poverty Alliviation, Parliamentary Affairs: O. Rajagopal.
Science and Technology: Bachi Singh Rawat.
Commerce and Industry: Rajiv Pratap Rudi.
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution: Ashok Pradhan.
Human Resource Development: Rita Verma.
Agriculture: Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav.
Prime Minister's Office, Statistics and Programme Implementation, Animal Care: Vijay Goel.
Rural Development: Annasaheb M.K. Patil.
Law and Justice, Coal and Mines : Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Railways: Bandaru Duttaraya.
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution: Sreenivasa Prasad.
Defence Production and Supplies: Harin Pathak.
Chemical and Fertiliser: Tapan Sikdar.
