Third Vajpayee ministry
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.Cabinet ministers
- Maneka Gandhi
- Arun Jaitley
- Vasundhara Raje
- Uma Bharti
- M Kannapan
- N. T. Shanmugam
- Dilip Ray
- Braja Kishore Tripathy
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
- Ashok Kumar Sharma
- Muni Lall
- Omar Abdullah
- Ajit Kumar Panja
- A. Raja
- I.D. Swami
- Pon.Radhakrishnan
Reshuffles
In a reshuffle on 29 September 2000 MVenkaiah Naidu and Sushma Swaraj were inducted in the ministry as cabinet ministers and Shripad Yasso Naik, Satyabrata Mukherjee, Kanyakumari MP P.Radhakrishnan and film star-turned-MP U V Krishnam Raju as minister of state. Later that year Uma Bharti was elevated to cabinet rank.
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.
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, Kailash Meghwal, Nagmani, Prahlad Singh Patel and P.C. Thomas.
