Twelfth Lok Sabha
Council of Ministers
Prime
Minister of India
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Ministry Wise Ministers of State
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Name of Minister | Name of Ministry |
| 1. | Shri Lal Krishna Advani | IndiaPress Affairs |
| 2. | Shri Ananth Kumar | Civil Aviation |
| 3. | Shri Sikander Bakht | Industry |
| 4. | Shri Surjit Singh Barnala | Chemicals and Fertilisers with additional charge of Food and Consumer Affairs |
| 5. | Shri George Fernandes | Defence |
| 6. | Shri Ram Krishna Hegde | Commerce |
| 7. | Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya | Labour |
| 8. | Shri Ram Jethmalani | Law, Justice and Company Affairs |
| 9. | Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi | Human Resource Development (excluding Department of Women and Child Developmant and Department of Youth Affairs and Sports) and Science and Technology with additional charge of Ocean Development |
| 10. | Shri P.R. Kumaramangalam | Power; and Parliamentary Affairs with additional charge of Non-Conventional Energy Sources |
| 11. | Shri Nitish Kumar | Railways with additional charge of Water Resources |
| 12. | Shri Naveen Patnaik | Steel and Mines |
| 13. | Shri Suresh Prabhu | Environment and Forests |
| 14. | Shri Vazhapady K. Ramamurthy | Petroleum and Natural Gas |
| 15. | Shri Kashi Ram Rana | Textiles |
| 16. | Shri Yashwant Sinha | Finance |
| 17. | Shri Pramod Mahajan | Information and Broadcasting with additional charge of Food Processing Industries |
| 18. | Shri Jaswant Singh | External Affairs with additional charge of Department of Electronics |
| 19. | Shri Jagmohan | Urban Development |
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Name of Minister | Name of Ministry |
| 1. | Shri Omak Apang | Tourism |
| 2. | Shri Sukhbir Singh Badal | Industry |
| 3. | Shri Ramesh Bais | Steel and Mines |
| 4. | Shri Dalit Ezhilmalai | Health and Family Welfare (Independent) |
| 5. | Shri Bandaru Dattatreya | Department of Urban Development, Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment |
| 6. | Smt. Maneka Gandhi | Social Justice and Empowerment |
| 7. | Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar | Petroleum and Natural Gas with additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs |
| 8. | Shri Babu Lal Marandi | Environment and Forests |
| 9. | Shri Ram Naik | Railways and IndiaPress Affairs with additional charge of Planning and Programme Implementation |
| 10. | Shri Mukhtar Naqvi | Information and Broadcasting with additinal charge of Parliamentary Affairs |
| 11. | Dr. A.K. Patel | Chemicals and Fertilisers |
| 12. | Shri Babagouda Patil | Rural Areas and Employment |
| 13. | Dr. Debendra Pradhan | Surface Transport |
| 14. | Shri Kabindra Purkayastha | Communications |
| 15. | Smt. Vasundhara Raje | External Affairs with additional charge of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions |
| 16. | Shri Dilip Ray | Coal with additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs |
| 17. | Shri Sompal | Agriculture with additional charge of Water Resources |
| 18. | Sadhvi Uma Shree Bharati | Department of Women and Ckunwarkunwarhild Development and Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Ministry of Human Resource Development |
| 19. | Shri Satya Pal Singh Yadav | Food and Consumer Affairs |
| S.No. | Name of Ministry | Name of Minister | Status |
| 1. | Agriculture | Shri Sompal | Minister of State |
| 2. | Chemicals and Fertilisers | Dr. A.K. Patel | Minister of State |
| 3. | Chemicals and Fertilisers with additional charge of Food | Shri Surjit Singh Barnala | Cabinet Minister |
| 4. | Civil Aviation | Shri Ananth Kumar | Cabinet Minister |
| 5. | Coal | Shri Dilip Ray | Minister of State |
| 6. | Commerce | Shri Ramakrishna Hegde | Cabinet Minister |
| 7. | Communications | Shri Kabindra Purkayastha | Minister of State |
| 8. | Defence | Shri George Fernandes | Cabinet Minister |
| 9. | Electronics | Shri Jaswant Singh | Cabinet Minister |
| 10. | Environment and Forests | Shri Suresh Prabhu | Cabinet Minister |
| 11. | Environment and Forests | Shri Babu Lal Marandi | Minister of State |
| 12. | External Affairs | Shri Jaswant Singh | Cabinet Minister |
| 13. | External Affairs | Smt. Vasundhara Raje | Minister of State |
| 14. | Finance | Shri Yashwant Sinha | Cabinet Minister |
| 15. | Food and Consumer Affairs | Shri Satya Pal Singh Yadav | Minister of State |
| 16. | Food Processing Industries | Shri Pramod Mahajan | Cabinet Minister |
| 17. | Health and Family Welfare | Shri Dalit Ezhilmalai | Minister of State |
| 18. | IndiaPress Affairs | Shri Lal Krishna Advani | Cabinet Minister |
| 19. | Human Resource Development | Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi | Cabinet Minister |
| 20. | Human Resource Development | Sadhvi Uma Shree Bharati | Minister of State |
| 21. | Industry | Shri Sikander Bakht | Cabinet Minister |
| 22. | Industry | Shri Sukhbir Singh Badal | Minister of State |
| 23. | Information and Broadcasting | Shri Pramod Mahajan | Cabinet Minister |
| 24. | Information and Broadcasting | Shri Mukhtar Naqvi | Minister of State |
| 25. | Labour | Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya | Cabinet Minister |
| 26. | Law, Justice and Company Affairs | Dr. M. Thambi Durai | Cabinet Minister |
| 27. | Non-Conventional Energy Sources | Shri P.R. Kumaramangalam | Cabinet Minister |
| 28. | Ocean Development | Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi | Cabinet Minister |
| 29. | Petroleum and Natural Gas | Shri Vazhapady K. Ramamurthy | Cabinet Minister |
| 30. | Petroleum and Natural Gas | Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar | Minister of State |
| 31. | Power | Shri P.R. Kumaramangalam | Cabinet Minister |
| 32. | Railways | Shri Nitish Kumar | Cabinet Minister |
| 33. | Railways and IndiaPress Affairs | Shri Ram Naik | Minister of State |
| 34. | Rural Areas and Employment | Shri Babagouda Patil | Minister of State |
| 35. | Science and Technology | Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi | Cabinet Minister |
| 36. | Social Justice and Empowerment | Smt. Maneka Gandhi | Minister of State |
| 37. | Steel and Mines | Shri Naveen Patnaik | Cabinet Minister |
| 38. | Steel and Mines | Shri Ramesh Bais | Minister of State |
| 39. | Surface Transport | Shri Debendra Pradhan | Minister of State |
| 40. | Textiles | Shri Kashi Ram Rana | Cabinet Minister |
| 41. | Tourism | Shri Omak Apang | Minister of State |
| 42. | Urban Development | Shri Jagmohan | Cabinet Minister |
| 43. | Urban Development | Shri Bandaru Dattatreya | Minister of State |
| 44. | Water Resources | Shri Sompal | Minister of State |