First Indira Gandhi ministry

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First Indira Gandhi ministry
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6th ministry of the Republic of India
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Date formed24 January 1966 (1966-01-24)
Date dissolved13 March 1967 (1967-03-13)
People and organisations
Head of state Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Head of government Indira Gandhi
Member party Indian National Congress
Status in legislature Majority
Opposition partyNone
Opposition leaderNone
History
Outgoing election 1967
Predecessor Second Nanda ministry
Successor Second Indira Gandhi ministry

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.

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Background

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

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

Cabinet Ministers

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftofficePartyRemarks
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 196613 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 196613 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

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftofficePartyRemarks
Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of Information and Broadcasting 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of Mines and Metals 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of Health and Family Planning 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs 24 January 1966 [1] 13 November 1966  INC
Minister of Defence Supplies in the Ministry of Defence 24 January 1966 [1] 13 November 1966  INC
Minister of Technical Development and Supply24 January 1966 [1] 25 March 1966  INC Renamed as Supply, Technical Development and Materials Planning.
Minister of Supply, Technical Development and Materials Planning25 March 196613 March 1967  INC  
Minister of Social Welfare 28 January 1966 [5] 25 March 1966  INC Merged with Ministry of Planning.
Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Irrigation and Power 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence 24 January 1966 [1] 31 January 1966  INC
13 November 1966 [2] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence
(Department of Defence Production)
31 January 196613 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport and Aviation 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Law 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation 24 January 1966 [1] 14 February 1966 [6]   INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Community Development
and Cooperation
24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of Iron and Steel 29 January 1966 [4] 13 March 1967  INC
Minister of State in the Department of Parliamentary Affairs
Minister of State in the Department of Communications
14 February 1966 [6] 13 March 1967  INC

Deputy Ministers

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftofficeParty
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
14 February 1966 [6] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Home Affairs 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
14 February 1966 [6] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Health and Family Planning 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Irrigation and Power 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Education 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Planning 24 January 1966 [1] 14 February 1966 [6]   INC
Deputy Minister in the Department of Social Welfare 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Railways
Sham Nath
24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Works, Housing and Urban Development 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Defence 24 January 1966 [1] 14 February 1966 [6]   INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Iron and Steel 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Community Development and Cooperation 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
14 February 1966 [6] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Department of Parliamentary Affairs
Deputy Minister in the Department of Communications
24 January 1966 [1] 14 February 1966 [6]   INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemicals 24 January 1966 [1] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting 29 January 1966 [4] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Commerce 29 January 1966 [4] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Transport and Aviation 15 February 1966 [7] 13 March 1967  INC
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Mines and Metals
Syed Ahmad Mehdi
15 February 1966 [7] 13 March 1967  INC

Parliamentary Secretaries

PortfolioMinisterTookofficeLeftofficeParty
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

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