First ministry of Manmohan Singh

First Manmohan Singh ministry
First Manmohan Singh ministry
	19th ministry of Republic of India
Date formed	22 May 2004
Date dissolved	22 May 2009
People and organisations
Head of government	Dr. Manmohan Singh
Head of state	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam; (until 25 July 2007); Pratibha Patil (from 25 July 2007)
Member party	Indian National Congress; (UPA and others)
Status in legislature	Coalition
Opposition party	Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)
Opposition leader	L. K. Advani (in Lok Sabha); Jaswant Singh (in Rajya Sabha)
History
Election(s)	2004
Outgoing election	2009
Legislature term(s)	Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
Predecessor	Third Council of Ministers of Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Successor	Second Council of Ministers of Manmohan Singh

The First Ministry of Manmohan Singh was the first Union Council of Ministers of India under the Prime Ministership of Dr. Manmohan Singh. It was formed after the Indian general election, 2004 held in four phases during 20 April - 10 May 2004, to elect the 14th Lok Sabha, and it functioned from 2004 to May 2009. After which Singh took the oath as the Prime Minister of India on 22 May 2004, and continued to hold the post till full term, the next Council of Ministers of the Republic of India was sworn in on 22 May 2009, when Singh started his second term in office as PM.

With three female Cabinet ministers, the Manmohan Singh ministry was the first Indian government to appoint more than one female Cabinet minister.^[1]

Overview

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All ministers are based in offices of their respective Union Ministries in New Delhi. All Cabinet members are mandated by the constitution to be members of either house of the Parliament of India. In a departure from the norm the current Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is a member of the Upper House, the Rajya Sabha, and has remained so for the duration of his entire term (2004–2009).

There are three categories of ministers, in descending order of rank:

Union Cabinet Minister - Senior minister in-charge of a ministry. A Cabinet minister may also hold additional charges of other Ministries, where no other Cabinet minister is appointed
Minister of State (Independent Charge)- with no overseeing Union Cabinet Minister for that portfolio
Minister of State (MoS) - junior minister with an overseeing Cabinet Minister, usually tasked with a specific responsibility in that ministry. For instance, an MoS in the Finance Ministry may only handle Taxation

Cabinet ministers

Portfolios	Name	Image	Parliamentary constituency	Party
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh		Assam (Rajya Sabha)	INC
Department of Atomic Energy
Department of Space
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Planning Commission
Ministry of Coal
Environment and Forests
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of External Affairs	Pranab Mukherjee		Jangipur	INC
Minister of Human Resource Development	Arjun Singh		Madhya Pradesh (Rajya Sabha)	INC
Ministry of Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	Sharad Pawar		Madha	NCP
Highways and Shipping	T.R.Baalu		Chennai South	DMK
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology	Dayanidhi Maran		Chennai Central	DMK
Minister of Railways	Lalu Prasad Yadav		Chapra	RJD
Ministry of Defence	A. K. Antony	65px	Kerala (Rajya Sabha)	INC
Minister of Home Affairs	Shivraj Patil		Maharashtra (Rajya Sabha)	INC
Minister of Minority Affairs	A. R. Antulay	[[File: \|65px]]	Kolaba	INC
Minister of Power	Sushilkumar Shinde		Maharashtra (Rajya Sabha)	INC
Minister of Chemicals, Fertilizers and Steel	Ram Vilas Paswan		Hajipur, Bihar	LJP
Minister of Urban Development	S. Jaipal Reddy		Miryalaguda	INC