Second Nehru ministry

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Second Nehru ministry
Flag of India.svg
1st ministry of the Republic of India
Date formed 15 April 1952 (1952-04-15)
Date dissolved 4 April 1957 (1957-04-04)
People and organisations
Head of government Jawaharlal Nehru
Head of state Rajendra Prasad
Member party Indian National Congress
Status in legislature Majority
Opposition party None
Opposition leader None
History
Election(s) 1951
Outgoing election 1957
Legislature term(s) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
Predecessor First Nehru ministry
Successor Third Nehru ministry

Jawaharlal Nehru was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 15 August 1947. After first Indian general election, Nehru became the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the country and his second term started on 15 April 1952. In his ministry upon reelection, the ministers were as follows.

Cabinet

Portfolio Minister Took office Left office Party
Prime Minister
Minister of External Affairs
  Jawaharlal Nehru First Nehru Ministry Third Nehru ministry INC
Minister of Finance   C. D. Deshmukh First Nehru ministry 1957 INC
Minister of Home Affairs   Kailash Nath Katju First Nehru ministry 1955 INC
  Govind Ballabh Pant 1955 Third Nehru ministry INC
Minister of Defence   Baldev Singh First Nehru Ministry 1952 INC
  Kailash Nath Katju 1955 1957 INC
Minister of Railways   N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar First Nehru Ministry 13 May 1952 INC
  Lal Bahadur Shastri 13 May 1952 7 December 1956 INC
  Jagjivan Ram 7 December 1956 Third Nehru Ministry INC
Minister of Information and Broadcasting   B. V. Keskar 1952 Third Nehru Ministry INC
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs   Satya Narayan Sinha[1] First Nehru ministry Third Nehru ministry INC

References