13th Lok Sabha

The 13th Lok Sabha (20 October 1999 – 6 February 2004) is the thirteenth session of the Lok Sabha (House of the People, or lower house in the Parliament of India). It was convened after 1999 Indian general election held during September–October 1999.^[1]

13th Lok Sabha
← 12th Lok Sabha 14th Lok Sabha →
Old Parliament House, Sansad Marg, New Delhi, India
Overview
Legislative body	Indian Parliament
Election	1999 Indian general election

This majority group in the Lok Sabha during this period was the National Democratic Alliance, a nationalist group led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which won 270 seats, 16 more than 12th Lok Sabha. The NDA, under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee completed its term until the next general elections of May 2004 for the next 14th Lok Sabha. This was the first non-INC government to complete the full term.

Four sitting members from Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Indian Parliament, were elected to 13th Lok Sabha after the 1999 Indian general election.^[2]

Important members

• Speaker:
  • G. M. C. Balayogi from 22 October 1999 to 3 March 2002
  • Manohar Joshi from 10 May 2002 to 2 June 2004
• Deputy Speaker:
  • P M Sayeed from 27 October 1999 to 2 June 2004
• Secretary General:
  • G C Malhotra from 14 July 1999 to 28 July 2005^[3]
• Leader of the House
  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee (13 October 1999 to 6 February 2004)
• Leader of the Opposition
  • Sonia Gandhi(13 October 1999 to 6 February 2004)
• Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
  • Pramod Mahajan (13 October 1999 to 29 January 2003)
  • Sushma Swaraj (29 January 2003 to 22 May 2004)^[4]

List of members by political party

See also: List of members of the 13th Lok Sabha

S.No.	Party Name	Party flag	Number of MPs	Leader of Lok Sabha
1	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		186	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2	Indian National Congress (INC)		112	Sonia Gandhi
3	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))		33	Somnath Chatterjee
4	Telugu Desam Party (TDP)		29	Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu
5	Samajwadi Party (SP)		26
6	Janata Dal (United) (JD(U))		21
7	Shiv Sena (SS)		15
8	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)		14
9	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)		12
10	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)		10
11	Biju Janata Dal (BJD)		10
12	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)		8
13	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)		8
14	Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK)		8
15	Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)		7
16	Independent (Ind.)		6
17	Indian National Lok Dal (INLD)		5
18	Communist Party of India (CPI)		4
19	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (J&KNC)		4
20	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK)		4
21	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) (RSP)		3
22	Akhil Bharatiya Lok Tantrik Congress (ABLTC)		2
23	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)		2
24	Indian Union Muslim League (IUML)		2
25	Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)		2
26	Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)		2
27	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)		1
28	Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangha (BBM)		1
29	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI(ML)L)		1
30	Himachal Vikas Congress (HVC)		1
31	Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S))		1
32	Kerala Congress (M) (KC(M))	Kerala Congress(m) Flag	1
33	MGR Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MADMK)		1
34	Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP)		1
35	Peasants and Workers Party of India (PAWPI)		1
36	Shiromani Akali Dal (Simranjit Singh Mann) (SAD(M))		1
37	Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF)		1
38	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) (SJP(R))		1

Key

Female: 49 (9.02%)	Male: 494 (90.98%)
SC: Seat reserved for Scheduled Castes
ST: Seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes

Cabinet Ministers

Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office	Party		Remarks
Prime Minister and also in-charge of: Ministry of Planning Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	13 October 1999	22 May 2004		BJP	All other important portfolios and policy issues not allocated to any Minister.
Deputy Prime Minister	L. K. Advani	29 June 2002	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Home Affairs	L. K. Advani	13 October 1999	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	13 October 1999	29 January 2003		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	L. K. Advani	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of External Affairs	Jaswant Singh	13 October 1999	1 July 2002		BJP
	Yashwant Sinha	1 July 2002	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Finance	Yashwant Sinha	13 October 1999	1 July 2002		BJP	Renamed as Finance and Company Affairs.
Minister of Finance and Company Affairs	Jaswant Singh	1 July 2002	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Defence	George Fernandes	13 October 1999	16 March 2001		SAP
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 March 2001	18 March 2001		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Jaswant Singh	18 March 2001	15 October 2001		BJP	Additional charge.
	George Fernandes	15 October 2001	22 May 2004		JD(U)
Minister of Human Resource Development Minister of Science and Technology	Murli Manohar Joshi	13 October 1999	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Ocean Development	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	13 October 1999	22 November 1999		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Murli Manohar Joshi	22 November 1999	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	13 October 1999	1 September 2001		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Jagmohan	1 September 2001	18 November 2001		BJP
	Vikram Verma	18 November 2001	1 July 2002		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	1 July 2002	22 May 2004		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
Minister of Agriculture	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	13 October 1999	22 November 1999		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Nitish Kumar	22 November 1999	3 March 2001		SAP
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	3 March 2001	6 March 2001		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Sundar Lal Patwa	6 March 2001	27 May 2001		BJP
	Nitish Kumar	27 May 2001	22 July 2001		SAP
	Ajit Singh	22 July 2001	24 May 2003		RLD
	Rajnath Singh	24 May 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Labour	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	13 October 1999	22 November 1999		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Satyanarayan Jatiya	22 November 1999	1 September 2001		BJP
	Sharad Yadav	1 September 2001	1 July 2002		SAP
	Sahib Singh Verma	1 July 2002	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Water Resources	Pramod Mahajan	13 October 1999	22 November 1999		BJP
	C. P. Thakur	22 November 1999	27 May 2000		BJP
	Arjun Charan Sethi	27 May 2000	22 May 2004		BJD
Minister of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution	Shanta Kumar	13 October 1999	17 July 2000		BJP	Renamed as Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	Shanta Kumar	17 July 2000	1 July 2002		BJP
	Sharad Yadav	1 July 2002	22 May 2004		JD(U)
Minister of Food Processing Industries	Chaman Lal Gupta	1 September 2001	1 July 2002		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	N. T. Shanmugam	1 July 2002	15 January 2004		PMK	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	15 January 2004	17 January 2004		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Rajnath Singh	17 January 2004	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Health and Family Welfare	N. T. Shanmugam	13 October 1999	27 May 2000		PMK	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	C. P. Thakur	27 May 2000	1 July 2002		BJP
	Shatrughan Sinha	1 July 2002	29 January 2003		BJP
	Sushma Swaraj	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Railways	Mamata Banerjee	13 October 1999	16 March 2001		AITC
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 March 2001	20 March 2001		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Nitish Kumar	20 March 2001	22 May 2004		JD(U)
Minister of Civil Aviation	Sharad Yadav	13 October 1999	1 September 2001		SAP
	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	1 September 2001	24 May 2003		BJP
	Rajiv Pratap Rudy	24 May 2003	22 May 2004		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
Minister of Surface Transport	Nitish Kumar	13 October 1999	22 November 1999		SAP
	Rajnath Singh	22 November 1999	25 October 2000		BJP
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	25 October 2000	7 November 2000		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible. Bifurcated into Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and Ministry of Shipping.
Minister of Road Transport and Highways	B. C. Khanduri	7 November 2000	24 May 2003		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	B. C. Khanduri	24 May 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Shipping	Arun Jaitley	7 November 2000	1 September 2001		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Ved Prakash Goyal	1 September 2001	29 January 2003		BJP
	Shatrughan Sinha	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Rural Development	Sundar Lal Patwa	13 October 1999	30 September 2000		BJP
	M. Venkaiah Naidu	30 September 2000	1 July 2002		BJP
	Shanta Kumar	1 July 2002	6 April 2003		BJP
	Ananth Kumar	6 April 2003	24 May 2003		BJP
	Kashiram Rana	24 May 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Urban Development	Jagmohan	13 October 1999	22 November 1999		BJP
	Jagmohan	26 November 1999	27 May 2000		BJP	Merged with Ministry of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation to form the Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation.
Minister of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation	Satyanarayan Jatiya	13 October 1999	22 November 1999		BJP
	Jagmohan	22 November 1999	26 November 1999		BJP
	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	26 November 1999	27 May 2000		BJP	Merged with Ministry of Urban Development to form the Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation.
Minister of Works and Estates	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	22 November 1999	26 November 1999		SAD	Merged with Ministry of Urban Development.
Minister of Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation	Jagmohan	27 May 2000	1 September 2001		BJP
	Ananth Kumar	1 September 2001	12 July 2003		BJP
	B. C. Khanduri	12 July 2003	8 September 2000		BJP
	Bandaru Dattatreya	8 September 2003	22 May 2004		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
Minister of Commerce and Industry	Murasoli Maran	13 October 1999	9 November 2002		DMK
	Arun Shourie	9 July 2002	29 January 2003		BJP
	Arun Jaitley	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Manohar Joshi	13 October 1999	9 May 2002		SS
	Suresh Prabhu	9 May 2002	1 July 2002		SS
	Balasaheb Vikhe Patil	1 July 2002	24 May 2003		SS
	Subodh Mohite	24 May 2003	22 May 2004		SS
Minister of Small Scale Industries, Agro and Rural Industries	Vasundhara Raje	13 October 1999	1 September 2001		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible. Bifurcated into Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries.
Minister of Small Scale Industries	Vasundhara Raje	1 September 2001	29 January 2003		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	C. P. Thakur	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Agro and Rural Industries	Kariya Munda	1 September 2001	29 January 2003		BJP
	Sangh Priya Gautam	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
Minister of Textiles	Kashiram Rana	13 October 1999	24 May 2003		BJP
	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	24 May 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas	Ram Naik	13 October 1999	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers	Suresh Prabhu	13 October 1999	30 September 2000		SS
	Sundar Lal Patwa	30 September 2000	7 November 2000		BJP
	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	7 November 2000	22 May 2004		SAD
Minister of Mines and Minerals	Naveen Patnaik	13 October 1999	4 March 2000		BJD	Resigned after elected as Orissa CM
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	4 March 2000	6 March 2000		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	P. R. Kumaramangalam	6 March 2000	27 May 2000		BJP	Bifurcated into Ministry of Mines and Ministry of Coal.
Minister of Mines	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	27 May 2000	7 November 2000		SAD
	Sundar Lal Patwa	7 November 2000	1 September 2001		BJP
	Ram Vilas Paswan	1 September 2001	29 April 2002		LJP
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	29 April 2002	1 July 2002		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	L. K. Advani	1 July 2002	26 August 2002		BJP
	Uma Bharti	26 August 2002	29 January 2003		BJP
	Ramesh Bais	29 January 2003	9 January 2004		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Mamata Banerjee	9 January 2004	22 May 2004		AITC
Minister of Coal	N. T. Shanmugam	27 May 2000	7 February 2001		PMK	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	8 February 2001	1 September 2001		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Ram Vilas Paswan	1 September 2001	29 April 2002		LJP
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	29 April 2002	1 July 2002		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	L. K. Advani	1 July 2002	26 August 2002		BJP
	Uma Bharti	26 August 2002	29 January 2003		BJP
	Kariya Munda	29 January 2003	9 January 2004		BJP
	Mamata Banerjee	9 January 2004	22 May 2004		AITC
Minister of Power	P. R. Kumaramangalam	13 October 1999	23 August 2000		BJP	Died in office.
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	23 August 2000	30 September 2000		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Suresh Prabhu	30 September 2000	24 August 2002		SS
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	24 August 2002	26 August 2002		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Anant Geete	26 August 2002	22 May 2004		SS
Minister of Non-Conventional Energy Sources	M. Kannappan	13 October 1999	30 December 2003		DMK	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	30 December 2003	9 January 2004		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Kariya Munda	9 January 2004	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs	Pramod Mahajan	13 October 1999	29 January 2003		BJP
	Sushma Swaraj	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs	Ram Jethmalani	13 October 1999	23 July 2000		BJP
	Arun Jaitley	24 July 2000	1 July 2002		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible. Bifurcated into Ministry of Law and Justice and Department of Company Affairs.
Minister of Law and Justice	K. Jana Krishamurthy	1 July 2002	29 January 2003		BJP
	Arun Jaitley	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Information and Broadcasting	Arun Jaitley	13 October 1999	30 September 2000		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Sushma Swaraj	30 September 2000	29 January 2003		BJP
	Ravi Shankar Prasad	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
Minister of Communications	Ram Vilas Paswan	13 October 1999	1 September 2001		LJP
	Pramod Mahajan	22 November 1999	22 December 2001		BJP	Merged with Ministry of Information Technology to form Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Minister of Information Technology	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	13 October 1999	22 November 1999		BJP	Prime Minister was responsible.
	Pramod Mahajan	22 November 1999	22 December 2001		BJP	Merged with Ministry of Communications to form Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology	Pramod Mahajan	22 December 2001	29 January 2003		BJP
	Arun Shourie	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Culture, Youth Affairs and Sports	Ananth Kumar	13 October 1999	2 February 2000		BJP	Bifurcated into Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Ministry of Culture.
Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports	Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa	2 February 2000	7 November 2000		SAD
	Uma Bharti	7 November 2000	26 August 2002		BJP
	Vikram Verma	26 August 2002	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Department of Culture	Ananth Kumar	2 February 2000	27 May 2000		BJP	Merged with Ministry of Tourism to form Ministry of Tourism and Culture.
Minister of Tourism	Uma Bharti	13 October 1999	2 February 2000		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Ananth Kumar	2 February 2000	27 May 2000		BJP	Merged with Department of Culture to form Ministry of Tourism and Culture.
Minister of Tourism and Culture	Ananth Kumar	27 May 2000	1 September 2001		BJP	Bifurcated into Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Culture.
Minister of Culture	Maneka Gandhi	1 September 2001	18 November 2001		IND	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible. Merged with Ministry of Tourism to form Ministry of Tourism and Culture.
Minister of Tourism	Jagmohan	1 September 2001	18 November 2001		BJP	Merged with Ministry of Culture to form Ministry of Tourism and Culture.
Minister of Tourism and Culture	Jagmohan	18 November 2001	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Environment and Forests	T. R. Baalu	13 October 1999	21 December 2003		DMK
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	21 December 2003	9 January 2004		BJP
	Ramesh Bais	9 January 2004	22 May 2004		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment	Maneka Gandhi	13 October 1999	1 September 2001		IND	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Satyanarayan Jatiya	1 September 2001	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Tribal Affairs	Jual Oram	13 October 1999	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Disinvestment	Arun Jaitley	10 December 1999	24 July 2000		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Arun Shourie	24 July 2000	1 September 2001		BJP	Minister of State (I/C) was responsible.
	Arun Shourie	1 September 2001	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister of Development of North Eastern Region	Arun Shourie	1 September 2001	29 January 2003		BJP
	C. P. Thakur	29 January 2003	22 May 2004		BJP
Minister without portfolio	Murasoli Maran	9 November 2002	23 November 2003		DMK	Died in office.
	Mamata Banerjee	8 September 2003	9 January 2004		AITC