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The Union Council of Ministers

The complete list of the 70-member Union Council of ministers that was sworn-in by the President, K R Narayanan, on the morning of October 13, 1999, at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan.

 Name  Party  Parliamentary
 Constituency
 State  Portfolio
 Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee  BJP  Lucknow  Uttar Pradesh  
 Cabinet Ministers
 L K Advani  BJP  Gandhinagar  Gujarat  Home
 Ananth Kumar  BJP  Bangalore South  Karnataka  Culture, youth
 affairs & sports
 T R Balu  DMK  Madras South  Tamil Nadu  Environment
 and forests
 Mamta Banerjee  TC  Calcutta South  West Bengal  Railways
 George Fernandes  JD-U  Nalanda  Bihar  Defence
 Jagmohan  BJP  New Delhi  Delhi  Urban
 development
 Dr Satyanarain Jatia  BJP  Ujjain  Madhya Pradesh  Urban
 employment
 and poverty
 alleviation
 Ram Jethmalani  IND  Member of Rajya Sabha  Law, justice
 & co affairs
 Manohar Gajanan Joshi  Shiv
 Sena
 Bombay North Central  Maharashtra  Heavy industries
 and public
 enterprises
 Dr Murli Manohar Joshi  BJP  Allahabad  Uttar Pradesh  HRD, science
 & technology
 P R Kumaramangalam  BJP  Tiruchirappalli  Tamil Nadu  Power
 Pramod Mahajan  BJP  Member of Rajya Sabha  Parliamentary
 affairs
 Murasoli Maran  DMK  Madras Central  Tamil Nadu  Commerce &
 industry
 Ram Naik  BJP  Bombay North  Maharashtra  Petroleum &
 natural gas
 Nitish Kumar  JD-U  Barh  Bihar  Surface
 transport
 Juel Oram  BJP  Sundargarh  Orissa  Tribal affairs
 Ram Vilas Paswan  JD-U  Hajipur  Bihar  Communications
 Naveen Patnaik  BJD  Aska  Orissa  Mines and
 minerals
 Sunderlal Patwa  BJP  Hoshangabad  Madhya Pradesh  Rural develop-
 ment
 Suresh Prabhu  Shiv
 Sena
 Rajapur  Maharashtra  Chemicals and
 fertilisers
 Kashiram Rana  BJP  Surat  Gujarat  Textiles
 Shanta Kumar  BJP  Kangra  Himachal Pradesh  Consumer affairs
 and public
 distribution
 Jaswant Singh  BJP  Member of Rajya Sabha  External affairs
 Yashwant Sinha  BJP  Hazaribagh  Bihar  Finance
 Sharad Yadav  JD-U  Madhepura  Bihar  Civil aviation
 Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
 Maneka Gandhi  IND  Pilibhit  Uttar Pradesh  Social justice
 & empowerment
 Arun Jaitley  BJP  Not a member of either house  I&B
 M Kannappan  MDMK  Tiruchengode  Tamil Nadu  Non-conven-
 tional energy
 Dilip Ray  BJD  Member of Rajya Sabha  Steel
 Vasundhararaje Scindia  BJP  Jhalawar  Rajasthan  Small-scale
 industries
 N T Shanmugham  PMK  Vellore  Tamil Nadu  Health &
 family welfare
 Uma Bharti  BJP  Bhopal  Madhya Pradesh  Tourism
 Ministers of State
 Ramesh Bais  BJP  Raipur  Madhya Pradesh  Chemicals and
 fertilisers
 Bijoya Chakravarty  BJP  Guwahati  Assam  Water resources
 Shriram Chauhan  BJP  Basti  Uttar Pradesh  Parliamentary
 affairs
 Bandaru Dattatreya  BJP  Secunderabad  Andhra Pradesh  Urban
 development
 Jaisinghrao Gaekwad Patil  BJP  Beed  Maharashtra  HRD
 Santosh Gangwar  BJP  Bareilly  Uttar Pradesh  Science and
 technology
 Chaman Lal Gupta  BJP  Udhampur  Jammu & Kashmir  Civil aviation
 Dr Vallabhbhai Kathiriya  BJP  Rajkot  Gujarat  Heavy industries
 & public
 enterprises
 Faggan Singh Kulaste  BJP  Mandla  Madhya Pradesh  Parliamentary
 affairs
 V Dhananjay Kumar  BJP  Mangalore  Karnataka  Finance
 Bangaru Lakshman  BJP  Not a member of either house  Planning and
 programme
 implementation
 Sumitra Mahajan  BJP  Indore  Madhya Pradesh  HRD
 Subhash Maharia  BJP  Sikar  Rajasthan  Rural
 development
 Babulal Marandi  BJP  Dumka  Bihar  Environment
 and forests
 Jaywanti Mehta  BJP  Bombay South  Maharashtra  Power
 Munni Lall  BJP  Sasaram  Bihar  Labour and
 employment
 Omar Farooq Abdullah  JKNC  Srinagar  Jammu & Kashmir  Commerce &
 industries
 Ajit Kumar Panja  TC  Calcutta North East  West Bengal  External affairs
 Harin Pathak  BJP  Ahmedabad  Gujarat  Defence
 Devendra Pradhan  BJP  Deogarh  Orissa  Surface transport
 E Ponnuswami  PMK  Chidambaram  Tamil Nadu  Petroleum
 A Raja  DMK  Perambalur  Tamil Nadu  Rural
 development
 O Rajagopal  BJP  Not a member of either house  Law, justice &
 company affairs
 Dr Raman  BJP  Rajnandgaon  Madhya Pradesh  Commerce and
 industries
 N Ginjee Ramachandran  MDMK  Tindivanam  Tamil Nadu  Textiles
 Ch Vidyasagar Rao  BJP  Karimnagar  Andhra Pradesh  Home
 S B P P K Satyanarayana Rao  BJP  Rajahmundry  Andhra Pradesh  Agriculture
 Bachi Singh Rawat  BJP  Almora  Uttar Pradesh  Defence
 Syed Shahnawaz Hussain  BJP  Kishanganj  Bihar  Food processing
 Tapan Sikdar  BJP  Dum Dum  West Bengal  Communications
 Digvijay Singh  Janata Dal
 (United)
 Banka  Bihar  Railways
 T H Chaoba Singh  MSCP  Inner Manipur  Manipur  Culture, youth
 affairs & sports
 V Sreenivasa Prasad  JD-U  Chamarajanagar  Karnataka  Consumer affairs
 and public
 distribution
 I D Swami  BJP  Karnal  Haryana  Home
 Dr Rita Verma  BJP  Dhanbad  Bihar  Mines and
 minerals
 Eknath Vikhe Patil  Shiv
 Sena
 Kopargaon  Maharashtra  Finance
 Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav  BJP  Madhubani  Bihar  Agriculture

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