Cabinet Deve Gowda

Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda

The Deve Gowda Cabinet was established in India on June 1, 1996 by Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda of Janata Dal (JD). It replaced the Vajpayee I cabinet and remained in office until April 21, 1997, after which it was replaced by the Gujral cabinet .

In the parliamentary elections on April 27, May 2 and 7, 1996 , the Indian National Congress (INC) received the most votes, but lost 7.46 percentage points and only had 140 of the 545 MPs. Due to the right to vote, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had almost 30 million votes less than the INC, became the strongest faction in the Lok Sabha with 161 seats . The Janata Dal (JD) had 46 parliamentarians and remained the third largest force. After the previous Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao was the first head of government in India to be convicted of bribery in a criminal case and then overthrown in a vote of no confidence on May 16, 1996, the BJP politician Atal Bihari Vajpayee became a minority government on May 16, 1991 . However, since he could not find a majority for his government, Vajpayee submitted his resignation on June 1, 1996 after just under two weeks in office. Since ultimately no party was able to provide a clear majority, Deve Gowda was a surprising compromise candidate for Prime Minister of a coalition government , the ministers from JD, Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC), Samajwadi Party (SP), Communist Party of India (CPI), Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and one non-party member.

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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	HD Deve Gowda	JD	June 1, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister of Science and Technology	HD Deve Gowda	JD	June 2, 1996	June 28, 1996
Minister of Finance and Minister for Corporate Affairs	P. Chidambaram	TMC	June 1, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister of Law and Justice	P. Chidambaram	TMC	June 2, 1996	June 28, 1996
Defense Minister	Mulayam Singh Yadav	SP	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Foreign minister	Indian Kumar Gujral	JD	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister for Water Resources	Indian Kumar Gujral Janeshwar Mishra	JD SP	June 2, 1996 June 28, 1996	June 28, 1996 April 21, 1997
Interior minister	HD Deve Gowda Indrajit Gupta	JD CPI	June 2, 1996 June 28, 1996	June 28, 1996 April 21, 1997
Minister of Agriculture	HD Deve Gowda Chaturanan Mishra	JD CPI	June 2, 1996 June 28, 1996	June 28, 1996 April 21, 1997
Railway Minister	Ram Vilas Paswan	JD	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister for Human Resource Development	SR Bommai	JD	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Industry Minister	Murasoli Maran	DMK	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister for Food and Civilian Services	Devendra Prasad Yadav	JD	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister for Consumer Affairs and Distribution	Devendra Prasad Yadav	JD	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister of Commerce	Devendra Prasad Yadav	JD	June 2, 1996	June 28, 1996
Minister for Urban Development and Employment	M. Arunachalam , H.D. Deve Gowda	TMC JD	June 2, 1996 June 28, 1996	June 28, 1996 April 21, 1997
Minister of Labor	Balwant Singh Ramoowalia M. Arunachalam	Independent TMC	June 2, 1996 June 28, 1996	June 28, 1996 April 21, 1997
Welfare minister	Balwant Singh Ramoowalia	Non-party	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism	CM Ibrahim	JD	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister for Information and Broadcasting	CM Ibrahim	JD	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Transport Minister	TG Venkatraman	DMK	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister for Rural Development and Employment	Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu	TDP	June 2, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs	Ram Vilas Paswan Srikant Kumar Jena	JD JD	June 2, 1996 June 28, 1996	June 28, 1996 April 21, 1997
Minister for Steel and Mining	Birendra Prasad Baishya	AGP	June 28, 1996	April 21, 1997
Minister for Textiles	RL Jalappa	JD	5th July 1996	April 21, 1997
Communications minister	Beni Prasad Verma	SP	July 10, 1996	April 21, 1997

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 DEVE GOWDA 2.6.1996 - 22.4.1997
• Gopa Sabharwal: India Since 1947: The Independent Years , Penguin UK, 2007, ISBN 9-35214-089-3
• India: Key Ministers (rulers.org)