- 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.
Cabinet ministers
- Morarji Desai-Prime Minister
- Charan Singh-Deputy Prime Minister of India-Home
- Jagjivan Ram-Deputy Prime Minister of India-Defence
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee-External affairs
- Lal Krishna Advani-Information & Broadcasting
- George Fernandes-Industry
- H.M. Patel-Finance
- Sikandar Bakht-Housing
- Surjit Singh Barnala-Agriculture
- Biju Patnaik
- Pratap Chandra Chunder-Education
- Shanti Bhushan-Law
- Brij Lal Verma-Communications
- Madhu Dandavate-Railways
- Raj Narain-Health
- Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna-Petroleum
- Ravindra Varma-Labour and parliamentary affairs
- Mohan Dharia-Commerce
Rabi Ray was inducted in January 1979 to fill in the vacancy caused by Raj Narain's exit.
Ministers of state
- Abha Maiti
- Satish Chandra Agrawal
- Krishana Kumar Goyal
- Jagadambi Prasad Yadav
- Renuka Devi Barkataki
- Arif Beg
Controversies
The janata party won all the 54 Lok Sabha seats during 1977 elections in unified Bihar.However, Desai's not inducting the Janata stalwarts Karpoori Thakur and Satyendra Narain Singh in the central cabinet ensured fragmentation of the party in the state which ultimately contributed to disintegration of the coalition.
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- Janata Party
- Desai administration
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