- Minister of Railways (India)
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The Minister of Railways is the head of the Ministry of Railways and one of the cabinet ministers of the Government of India.
List of railway ministers
Railway Ministers Name Term Party Notes[1] John Mathai 1947 Congress (not formally designated the Minister for Railways) presents the first Railway budget for independent India N Gopalaswamy Ayyangar 1948–1952 Congress worked on consolidating the various railways into the zonal railways Lal Bahadur Shastri 1952–1956Bold text Congress Resigned in 1956 taking responsibility for three fatal railway accidents Jagjivan Ram 1956–1962 Congress Sardar Swaran Singh 1962 Congress Kengal Hanumanthaiah or Ram Sew Singh? 1967 Congress Some sources suggest he was Railway Minister later, in 1971). Ram Sew Singh is also mentioned in some sources as a railway minister in 1966-1968, he may not have been a Cabinet minister for railways. C. M. Poonacha 1968 Congress Panampilly Govinda Menon 1969 Congress Gulzari Lal Nanda 1970–1971 Congress Kengal Hanumanthaiah may have been the Railway Minister briefly in 1971 Tonse Madhav Ananth Pai 1972–1973 Congress Lalit Narayan Mishra 1973–1975 Congress killed by a bomb blast 2-Jan-1975, at the opening of a railway line in Samastipur Kamalpati Tripathi 1975–1977 Congress Prof. Madhu Dandavate 1977–1979 Janta Party Kedar Pandey 1980–1981 Congress A. B. A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury (1981?) 1982–1984 Congress Bansi Lal 1984 Congress A brief stint during a reorganization of some ministries and government departments Madhav Rao Scindia 1984–1989 Congress George Fernandes 1989–1990 National Front Janeshwar Mishra 1990–1991 Very short tenure as MoS C. K. Jaffer Sheriff 1991–1995 Congress Suresh Kalmadi 1995–1996 Congress followed by Atal Behari Vajpayee also briefly, who held the Railways portfolio along with being PM Ram Vilas Paswan 1996–1998 United Front Nitish Kumar 1998–1999 Mamata Banerjee 1999–2000 NDA Nitish Kumar 2001–2004 NDA Laloo Prasad Yadav 2004–2009 UPA Mamata Banerjee 2009–2011 UPA Mamata Banerjee resigned from the Railway Ministry on May 19, 2011, after she became the Chief Minister of West Bengal. Manmohan Singh 2011 UPA Manmohan Singh, briefly, who held the Railways portfolio along with being PM [Dinesh Trivedi]] 2011–Incumbent UPA References
- ^ IRCFA Article "Railway Ministers". http://www.irfca.org/. Indian Railways Fan Club. http://www.irfca.org/docs/railway-ministers.html IRCFA Article. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
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