First Indira Gandhi ministry
First Indira Gandhi ministry | |
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 6th ministry of the Republic of India | |
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| Date formed | 24 January 1966 |
| Date dissolved | 13 March 1967 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| Head of government | Indira Gandhi |
| Member party | Indian National Congress |
| Status in legislature | Majority |
| Opposition party | None |
| Opposition leader | None |
| History | |
| Outgoing election | 1967 |
| Predecessor | Second Nanda ministry |
| Successor | Second Indira Gandhi ministry |
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1966–1977 1980–1984
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The First Indira Gandhi ministry was formed on 24 January 1966[1] under the premiership of Indira Gandhi who was elected as the Prime Minister of India by the Congress Parliamentary Party to succeed Gulzarilal Nanda who was serving as the acting prime minister since 11 January 1966 following the untimely demise of Lal Bahadur Shastri. The cabinet remained in office until the 1967 general election in which Indira Gandhi was re-elected to office.
Background
[edit]Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri passed away suddenly on 11 January 1966 at Tashkent during his visit to Uzbek SSR, just a day after signing the Tashkent Declaration which formally ended the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was succeeded by Home Minister Gulzarilal Nanda as the Acting Prime Minister. Nanda remained the prime minister for thirteen days until the election of Indira Gandhi who served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the cabinets of Shastri and Nanda. Indira Gandhi was formally elected as the Prime Minister by the ruling Indian National Congress party. She was thereupon formally sworn-in as the nation's third prime minister on 24 January 1966 by President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
Composition
[edit]Gandhi's council of ministers included a majority of the ministers from her predecessor's cabinet. Outgoing acting prime minister Gulzarilal Nanda was re-appointed home minister. She retained Defence Minister Yashwantrao Chavan, Education Minister M. C. Chagla, Railways Minister S. K. Patil, Finance Minister Sachindra Chaudhuri, Communications and Parliamentary Minister Satya Narayan Sinha, Agriculture Minister Chidambaram Subramaniam, External Affairs Minister Swaran Singh in their respective portfolios. Other ministers who were retained from the predecessor cabinet included Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Damodaram Sanjivayya, Manubhai Shah, Mehr Chand Khanna, Raj Bahadur, Surendra Kumar Dey, Sushila Nayyar, Jaisukhlal Hathi, Kotha Raghuramaiah, O. V. Alagesan, Ram Subhag Singh, Bali Ram Bhagat, A. M. Thomas, C. M. Poonacha, Jagannath Rao, C. R. Pattabhiraman, Bibudhendra Mishra, Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Shah Nawaz Khan, Dajisaheb Chavan, Purnendu Sekhar Naskar, B. S. Murthy, Lalit Narayan Mishra, T. S. Soundaram, Bhakt Darshan, Sham Nath, B. C. Bhagawati, Shyam Dhar Mishra.
Ministers
[edit]Cabinet Ministers
[edit]| Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Minister Minister of Atomic Energy And also in-charge of all other important portfolios and policy issues not allocated to any Minister. | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of Home Affairs | 24 January 1966[1] | 9 November 1966 | INC | |||
| 9 November 1966 | 13 November 1966 | INC | ||||
| 13 November 1966[2] | 13 March 1967 | INC | ||||
| Minister of Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of External Affairs | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 November 1966 | INC | |||
| 13 November 1966[2] | 13 March 1967 | INC | ||||
| Minister of Railways | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of Defence | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 November 1966 | INC | |||
| 13 November 1966 | 13 March 1967 | INC | ||||
| Minister of Transport and Aviation | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of Food, Agriculture, Community Development and Cooperation | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of Finance | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Communications | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of Education | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 November 1966 | INC | |||
| 13 November 1966[2] | 13 March 1967 | INC | ||||
| Minister of Industry | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of Planning | 24 January 1966[1] | 25 March 1966 | INC | Renamed as Planning and Social Welfare. | ||
| Minister of Planning and Social Welfare | 25 March 1966[3] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of Commerce | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of Law | 24 January 1966[1] | 13 March 1967 | INC | |||
| Minister of Irrigation and Power | 29 January 1966[4] | 13 November 1966 | INC | |||
| 13 November 1966[2] | 13 March 1967 | INC | Minister of State was responsible. | |||
Ministers of State
[edit]Deputy Ministers
[edit]Parliamentary Secretaries
[edit]| Portfolio | Minister | Took office | Left office | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of Atomic Energy | 15 February 1966[8] | 13 March 1967 | INC | ||
| Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of Communications | 15 February 1966[8] | 13 March 1967 | INC | ||
| Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs | 15 February 1966[8] | 13 March 1967 | INC | ||
| Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs | 15 February 1966[8] | 13 March 1967 | INC | ||
Trivia
[edit]- Two of the cabinet ministers, viz. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed and Neelam Sanjiva Reddy would later serve as the 5th and 6th President of India respectively. Reddy would also serve as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha on two separate occasions.
- Minister of Law Gopal Swarup Pathak would later be elected as the 4th Vice President of India in 1969.
- Chidambaram Subramaniam, Satya Narayan Sinha, Gopal Swarup Pathak, Jaisukhlal Hathi, Bali Ram Bhagat, C. M. Poonacha, Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Mohammad Shafi Qureshi, Bhanu Prakash Singh, S. C. Jamir would later be appointed as governors of several states.
- Tribhuvan Narain Singh would later serve as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Prakash Chandra Sethi as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and S. C. Jamir as Chief Minister of Nagaland.
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw "Press Communique: Allocation of portfolios among members of union council of ministers" (PDF). archive.pib.gov.in. 24 January 1966.
- ^ a b c d e Rashtrapati Bhavan (13 November 1966). "Press Communique: Re-allocation of portfolios among members of the council of ministers" (PDF). archive.pib.gov.in.
- ^ Cabinet Secretariat (25 March 1966). "Press Communique: Re-allocation of portfolio upon Shri Asoka Mehta" (PDF). archive.pib.gov.in.
- ^ a b c d Cabinet Secretariat (29 January 1966). "Press Communique: Assumption of offices by ministers of the union" (PDF). archive.pib.gov.in.
- ^ Cabinet Secretariat (28 January 1966). "Press Communique: Allocation of Department of Social Welfare on Shri Kotha Raghuramaiah" (PDF). archive.pib.gov.in.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Cabinet Secretariat (14 January 1966). "Press Communique: Re-allocation of portfolios among members of the union council of ministers" (PDF). archive.pib.gov.in.
- ^ a b Cabinet Secretariat (15 February 1966). "Press Communique: Assumption of office by Ministers of State - Jahanara Jaipal Singh and Syed Ahmad Mahdi" (PDF). archive.pib.gov.in.
- ^ a b c d Cabinet Secretariat (15 February 1966). "Press Communique: Allocation of portfolios among parliamentary secretaries" (PDF). archive.pib.gov.in.