Nehru II cabinet

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1946)

The Nehru II cabinet was formed in India on May 13, 1952 by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru . It replaced the Nehru I cabinet and remained in office until April 4, 1957, after which it was replaced by the Nehru III cabinet .

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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	Jawaharlal Nehru	INC	May 13, 1952	April 4th 1957
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Relations with the Commonwealth of Nations	Jawaharlal Nehru	INC	May 13, 1952	April 4th 1957
Defense Minister	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar Jawaharlal Nehru Kailash Nath Katju Jawaharlal Nehru	INC INC INC INC	May 13, 1952 February 10, 1953 January 10, 1955 January 30, 1957	February 10, 1953 January 10, 1955 January 30, 1957 April 5, 1957
Finance minister	Chintaman Deshmukh Jawaharlal Nehru T. T. Krishnamachari	INC INC INC	May 13, 1952 April 24, 1956 August 30, 1956	April 24, 1956 August 30, 1956 April 5, 1957
Interior minister	Kailash Nath Katju Govind Ballabh Pant	INC INC	May 13, 1952 January 10, 1955	January 10, 1955 April 5, 1957
Minister of Education	Abul Kalam Azad	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957
Minister for Natural Resources and Scientific Research	Abul Kalam Azad	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957
Communications minister	Jagjivan Ram	INC	May 13, 1952	1956
Minister of Health	Amrit Kaur	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957
Minister for Planning, Irrigation and Energy	Gulzarilal Nanda	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957
Minister for the States	Kailash Nath Katju	INC	May 13, 1952	January 10, 1955
Minister for Trade and Industry	TT Krishnamachari Sardar Swaran Singh Morarji Desai	INC INC INC	May 13, 1952 1956 1956	1956 1956 April 5th 1957
Minister of Justice	Charu Chandra Biswas	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957
Minister for Minorities	Charu Chandra Biswas	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957
Minister for Railways and Transport	Lal Bahadur Shastri Jagjivan Ram	INC INC	May 13, 1952 December 7, 1956	December 7, 1956 April 5, 1957
Minister for Public Works, Housing and Utilities	Sardar Swaran Singh	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957
Minister of Labor	VV Giri Kandubhai K. Desai	INC	May 13, 1952 1954	1954 April 5th 1957
Minister for Information and Broadcasting	BV Keskar	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957
Minister for Rehabilitation and Minorities	Ajit Prasad Jain More Chand Khanna	INC INC	May 13, 1952 1954	November 1954 April 5, 1957
Minister for Iron and Steel	TT Krishnamachari	INC	1955	April 5th 1957
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs	Satya Narayan Sinha	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957
Minister for Income and Expenditures	Mahavir Tyagi Bezawada Gopala Reddy	INC	May 13, 1952 March 16, 1953	March 16, 1953 March 28, 1955
Minister of Defense Organization	Mahavir Tyagi	INC	March 16, 1953	April 5th 1957
Minister with no portfolio	Govind Ballabh Pant	INC	1954	1955
Minister for Heavy Industry	Govind Ballabh Pant	INC	1956	1956
Minister of Agriculture	Punjabrao Deshmukh	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957
Minister for Community Development Cooperation and Village Self-Government	SK Dey	INC	1956	April 5th 1957
Minister with no portfolio	VK Krishna Menon	INC	1956	April 5th 1957
Solicitor General	CK Daphtary	INC	May 13, 1952	April 5th 1957

Minister of State and Deputy Minister

Office	Surname	Political party	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires
Minister of State in the Ministry of Health	Maragatham Chandrasekar Dhahvanthi Handoo Rama Rau	INC INC	1952 1953	1953 1953
Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry	Nityanand Kanungo	INC	1955	1956
Minister of State in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture	Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Ajit Prasad Jain	INC INC	May 13, 1952 November 1954	November 1954 April 1956
Minister of State for Consumer Industry	Nityanand Kanungo	INC	1956	1957
Minister of State for Trade	Dattatraya Parasuram Karmarkar	INC	1952	1957
Vice Minister for Economic Affairs	Tarakeshwari Prasad Sinha	INC	1952	1957
Vice Minister for Education	KL Shrimali	INC	May 1955	1957
Vice Minister for Trade and Industry	Nityanand Kanungo	INC	1954	1955
Vice Minister of Labor	Abid Ali Jaferbhai	INC	1952	1957
Vice Minister for Planning	Shyam Nandan Mishra	INC	1954	1957
Vice Minister for Irrigation and Energy	Jaisukh Lal Hathi	INC	1952	1957
Parliamentary State Secretary to the Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs	Lakshmi N. Menon	INC	1952	1957
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Education	KL Shrimali	INC	December 1953	May 1955
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting	G. Rajagopalan	INC	1953	1957

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 MINISTERS NEHRU 2 May 13, 1952 - April 17, 1957
• Gopa Sabharwal: India Since 1947: The Independent Years , Penguin UK, 2007, ISBN 9-35214-089-3
• India: Key Ministers (rulers.org)