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Elections to the XIII Lok Sabha were held in Sept-Oct, 1999. Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the Bhartiya Janata Party was sworn in as the Prime Minister on 13 October '99 along with 25 Cabinet Ministers and 44 State Ministers.

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Minister
Portfolio
Atal Behari VajpayeeShri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Prime Minister 
Cabinet Ministers
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Prime Minister, also in charge of unallocated Ministries/Departments:
i) Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions 
ii) Planning 
iii) Statistics and Programme Implementation 
iv) Atomic Energy 
v) Space 
vi) Food Processing
Shri L. K. Advani Home
Shri Ananth Kumar Toursism and Culture 
Shri T.R. Balu  Environment & Forests
Smt. Sushma Swaraj Information & Broadcasting
Ms. Mamata Banerjee  Railways
Shri George Fernandes  Defence
Shri Jagmohan  Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation
Dr. Satya Narayan Jatiya  Labour
Shri Manohar Joshi  Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi Ocean Development, Human Resource Development and Science & Technology
Shri Pramod Mahajan  Information Technology and Parliamentary Affairs
Shri Murasoli Maran  Commerce & Industry
Shri Ram Naik  Petroleum & Natural Gas
Shri Nitish Kumar  Agriculture
Shri Juel Oram  Tribal Affairs
Shri Ram Vilas Paswan  Communications
Shri Sunder Lal Patwa Mines
Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu  Power
Shri Kashiram Rana  Textiles
Shri Shanta Kumar Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution
Shri Jaswant Singh External Affairs
Shri Yashwant Sinha  Finance
Shri Sharad Yadav Civil Aviation
Shri Rajnath Singh Surface Transport
Shri C P Thakur Health and Family Welfare
Shri Arjun Sethi Water Resources
Shri Arun Jaitley Law, Justice & Company Affairs with additional charge of Shipping
Ms. Uma Bharti Youth Affairs & Sports, Mines
Shri S S Dhindsa Chemical &Fertilisers
Shri Venkaiah Naidu Rural Development
Ministers of State (Independent Charge)
Ms. Maneka Gandhi  Social Justice & Empowerment 
Shri B.C.Khanduri Road Transport and Highways
Shri M. Kannappan  Non-Conventional Energy Sources
Ms. Vasundhara Raje Small Scale Industries, Agro & Rural Industries
Also, Minister of State assisting the Prime Minister in the Ministry of Personnel & Public Grievances and Pension, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space
Arun Shorie Department of Disinvestment (independent charge), Planning, Statistics & Programme Implementation, Deptt. of Administrative Reforms in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Shri N.T. Shanmugham Coal
Shri B.K.Tripathi Steel
Ministers of State
Shri Ramesh Bais Information & Broadcasting
Smt. Bijoya Chakravarty  Water Resources
Shri Shriram Chauhan  Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs
Shri Bandaru Dattatraya  Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation
Shri Jaysingrao Gaikwad-Patil  Mines
Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar Petroleum and Natural Gas & Parliamentary Affairs
Shri Chaman Lal Gupta Civil Aviation
Shri Syed Shahnawaz Hussain Human Resource Development
Dr. Vallabhai Ramjibhai Katheria  Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises
Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste  Tribal Affairs
Shri V. Dhananjaya Kumar  Textiles
Ms. Sumitra Mahajan  Human Resource Development
Shri Subhash Maheria  Rural Development
Ms. Jayawantibehn Mehta  Power
Shri Muni Lall  Labour & Employment
Shri Omar Farooq Abdullah  Commerce and Industry 
Shri Ajit Kumar Panja External Affairs
Shri Hiren Pathak  Defence
Dr. Devendra Pradhan  Agriculture
Shri E. Punnuswamy  Petroleum
Shri A. Raja  Health & Family Welfare
Shri O. Rajagopal  Parliamentary Affairs with additional charge of Railways
Dr. Raman  Commerce & Industry 
Shri Gingee N. Ramachandran  Finance
Shri C. Vidya Sagar Rao  Home
Shri Sripad Yesso Naik Agriculture
Shri Bachi Singh Rawat  Science & Technology
Shri Tapan Sikdar Communications
Shri Digvijay Singh Railways
Shri T.H. Chauba Singh Department of Food Processing in Ministry of Agriculture
Shri V. Sreenivasa Prasad  Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution
Shri I.D. Swami Home
Dr. (Smt.) Rita Verma  Rural Development
Shri EV Alias Balasaheb Vikhe Patil Finance
Shri Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav Shipping
Shri P. Radhakrishnan Youth Affairs & Sports
Shri Satyabrata Mukherjee Chemicals & Fertilisers
Shri U.V.Krishnamraju External Affairs

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