Chandra Shekhar Cabinet

The Chandra Shekhar cabinet was established in India on November 10, 1990 by Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar of the Samajwadi Janata Party (SJD). It replaced the VP Singh cabinet and remained in office until June 21, 1991, after which it was replaced by the Rao cabinet .

After the split of Janata Dal (JD), the party of the previous Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh , and its overthrow by a vote of no confidence in parliament, Chandra Shekhar took over the office of Prime Minister. He had previously founded the SJD, which emerged from members of the JD, which, however, only had a few seats in the Lok Sabha . However, his minority government was tolerated by the Indian National Congress (INC) of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi , the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the two communist parties Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)) and Communist Party of India (CPI) . After this support was terminated, early elections were announced on April 12, 1991. In these parliamentary elections May 20, June 12 and June 15, 1991 , which were overshadowed by the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi on May 21, 1991, the INC won 232 of the 523 seats in the Lok Sabha, while BJP received 120 and JD 59 seats. PV Narasimha Rao of the INC then formed a new government on June 21, 1991.

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The Cabinet consisted of the following ministers:

Office	Surname	Political party	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires
prime minister	Chandra Shekhar	SJD	November 10, 1990	June 21, 1991
Interior minister	Chandra Shekhar	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister for Information and Broadcasting	Chandra Shekhar	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Vice Prime Minister	Chaudhary Devi Lal	SJD	November 10, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister of Agriculture	Chaudhary Devi Lal	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Tourism Minister	Chaudhary Devi Lal	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Foreign minister	Vidya Charan Shukla	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister of Commerce	Subramanian Swamy	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister of Law and Justice	Subramanian Swamy	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Finance minister	Yashwant Sinha	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister for Petroleum and Chemicals	Satya Prakash Malaviya	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs	Satya Prakash Malaviya	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister for Health and Family Welfare	Shakeelur Rehman	SJD	November 21, 1990	February 20, 1991
Railway Minister	Janeshwar Mishra	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister for Human Resource Development	Raj Mangal Pande	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister for Textiles and the Food Industry	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Energy minister	Kalyan Singh Kalvi	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister for Water Resources	Manubhai Kotadia	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Transport Minister	Manubhai Kotadia	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister for Urban Development	Daulatram Saran	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister for Steel and Mining	Ashoke Kumar Sen.	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991
Minister for Food and Civilian Services	Rao Birender Singh	SJD	November 21, 1990	June 21, 1991

Web links

• All Members of Lok Sabha (Since 1952): Members Biographical Sketches on the Lok Sabha homepage
• RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 1952 - 2003 on the homepage of Rajya Sabha
• COUNCIL OF MINISTER SHEKHAR 11/21/1990 - 6/20/1991
• Gopa Sabharwal: India Since 1947: The Independent Years , Penguin UK, 2007, ISBN 9-35214-089-3
• India: Key Ministers (rulers.org)