Morarji Desai Ministry
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Morarji Desai was sworn in as Prime Minister of India
on 24 March 1977. Here is the list of ministers in his ministry with portfolios.
Rabi Ray
was inducted in January 1979 to fill in the vacancy caused by Raj Narain's exit.
Prime Minister of India
The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
on 24 March 1977. Here is the list of ministers in his ministry with portfolios.
Cabinet ministers
- Morarji DesaiMorarji DesaiMorarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian independence activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977–79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress...
-Prime Minister - Charan Singh-Deputy Prime Minister of IndiaDeputy Prime Minister of IndiaThe Deputy Prime Minister of India is a member of the Indian cabinet in the Indian government. The post is not a constitutional post and seldom carries any specific powers. Generally a Deputy Prime Minister also holds other key portfolios like Home minister or Finance Minister...
-Home - Jagjivan RamJagjivan RamBabu Jagjivan Ram , known popularly as Babuji, was a freedom fighter and a social reformer hailing from the scheduled castes of Bihar in India. He was from the Chamar caste and was a leader for his community...
-Deputy Prime Minister of IndiaDeputy Prime Minister of IndiaThe Deputy Prime Minister of India is a member of the Indian cabinet in the Indian government. The post is not a constitutional post and seldom carries any specific powers. Generally a Deputy Prime Minister also holds other key portfolios like Home minister or Finance Minister...
-Defence - Atal Bihari VajpayeeAtal Bihari VajpayeeAtal Bihari Vajpayee is an Indian statesman who served as the tenth Prime Minister of India three times – first for a brief term of 13 days in 1996, and then for two terms from 1998 to 2004. After his first brief period as Prime Minister in 1996, Vajpayee headed a coalition government from...
-External affairs - Lal Krishna AdvaniLal Krishna AdvaniLal Kishanchand Advani known as Lal Krishna Advani is a Veteran Indian politician. A former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party , which is currently the major opposition party in the Indian Parliament. He also served as a Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004...
-Information & Broadcasting - George FernandesGeorge FernandesGeorge Mathew Fernandes is an Indian trade unionist, politician, journalist, agriculturist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He is a key member of the Janata Dal , and was the founder of the Samata Party...
-Industry - H.M. Patel-Finance
- Sikandar Bakht-Housing
- Surjit Singh BarnalaSurjit Singh BarnalaSurjit Singh Barnala is an Indian politician from Punjab. During his career in Indian politics, he has been Governor of four states, Chief Minister of Punjab, a minister in the union cabinet twice and a vice-presidential candidate once.-Early life:Barnala was born in Ateli village, which was then...
-Agriculture - Biju PatnaikBiju PatnaikBiju Patnaik was an Indian politician. Also known as Biju Babu.Son of Lakshminarayan and Ashalata Patnaik, Bijayananda Patnaik was born in Cuttack, Orissa on March 5, 1916..-Role in Indonesian freedom struggle:Biju...
- Pratap Chandra ChunderPratap Chandra ChunderPratap Chandra Chunder was a union minister of India, educationist and author. He served in Morarji Desai Ministry from 1977 to 1980 as a cabinet minister with education and social welfare portfolios.-Family and education:...
-Education - Shanti BhushanShanti BhushanShanti Bhushan in Allahabad, United Provinces is a former Law Minister of India at Ministry of Law and Justice in the Morarji Desai Ministry and also a senior advocate...
-Law - Brij Lal Verma-Communications
- Madhu DandavateMadhu DandavateMadhu Dandavate was an Indian politician.He was born in a Deshastha family. He was popularly known as an Economist....
-Railways - Raj NarainRaj NarainRaj Narain was an Indian politician who, as a candidate of Janata Party for the Lok Sabha in 1977, ran for office in Rae Bareli constituency and defeated Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India...
-Health - Hemvati Nandan BahugunaHemvati Nandan BahugunaHemvati Nandan Bahuguna was a Congress Party leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; he later joined Bharatiya Lok Dal and worked with Charan Singh.-Early life:...
-Petroleum - Ravindra VarmaRavindra VarmaRavindra Varma was the Minister for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs in the Morarji Desai Ministry in India from 1977 to 1979....
-Labour and parliamentary affairs - Mohan DhariaMohan DhariaMohan Dharia is a former Union minister, a lawyer and social worker. He currently stay at Pune and is environmentalist and run a non-government organisation Vanrai....
-Commerce
Rabi Ray
Rabi Ray
Rabi Ray is an Indian socialist politician, a former speaker of Lok Sabha and a former Union minister of India. He hails from Orissa...
was inducted in January 1979 to fill in the vacancy caused by Raj Narain's exit.
Ministers of state
- Abha MaitiAbha MaitiAbha Maiti is a former minister of state of India. She was minister of state for Industry in the Morarji Desai government from 1977 to 1979.She was elected to Lok Sabha in 1977 from Panskura in West Bengal on Janata Party ticket....
- Satish Chandra AgrawalSatish Chandra AgrawalSatish Chandra Agarwal was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of Sixth and Seventh Lok Sabha representing Jaipur Parliamentary Constituency of Rajasthan, India during 1977-84. Later he was elected to Rajya Sabha...
- Krishana Kumar GoyalKrishana Kumar GoyalKrishna Kumar Goyal or Krishna Kumar Goyal is an Indian politician and a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In 1977 he was elected to the 6th Lok Sabha from Kota constituency in Rajasthan state as a Janata Party candidate. He was the minister of civil supplies and cooperation in the union...
- Jagadambi Prasad YadavJagadambi Prasad YadavJagadambi Prasad Yadav was a Bharatiya Janata Party leader and a minister of state in the Morarji Desai Government of India from 1977 to 1979. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Godda in Jharkhand. At the time of his death in 2002, he was Convenor of the Parliamentary Committee on Official...
- Renuka Devi BarkatakiRenuka Devi BarkatakiRenuka Devi Barkataki is an Indian politician from Assam. She was the Union Minister of state for education, social welfare and culture in the Janata Party government led by prime minister Morarji Desai from 1977 to 1979. In 1962, she was elected to the 3rd Lok Sabha from Barpeta constituency as...
- Arif BegArif BegArif Beg is a former federal Indian minister and a Bharatiya Janta Party leader. He hails from Madhya Pradesh state. He had left the party in 1996 however returned to it in 2003. In 1977 he ran for parliament on the Bharatiya Lok Dal ticket from Bhopal and won the seat. In 1989 he was elected to...