Morarji Desai Ministry
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Morarji Desai was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 24 March 1977. Here is the list of ministers in his ministry with portfolios.

Cabinet ministers

• Morarji Desai-Prime Minister
• Charan Singh-Deputy Prime Minister of India-Home
• Jagjivan Ram-Deputy Prime Minister of India-Defence
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee-External affairs
• Lal Krishna Advani-Information & Broadcasting
• George Fernandes-Industry
• H.M. Patel-Finance
• Sikandar Bakht-Housing
• Surjit Singh Barnala-Agriculture
• Biju Patnaik
• Pratap Chandra Chunder-Education
• Shanti Bhushan-Law
• Brij Lal Verma-Communications
• Madhu Dandavate-Railways
• Raj Narain-Health
• Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna-Petroleum
• Ravindra Varma-Labour and parliamentary affairs
• Mohan Dharia-Commerce

Rabi Ray was inducted in January 1979 to fill in the vacancy caused by Raj Narain's exit.

Ministers of state

• Abha Maiti
• Satish Chandra Agrawal
• Krishana Kumar Goyal
• Jagadambi Prasad Yadav
• Renuka Devi Barkataki
• Arif Beg