Second Nehru ministry

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{{Infobox government cabinet
| cabinet_name = Second Nehru ministry
| cabinet_number = 1st
| cabinet_type= ministry
| jurisdiction = the [[Republic of India]]
| flag = Flag of India.svg
| flag_border = true
| incumbent =
| image = Rajendra_Prasad_swears_in_Jawaharlal_Nehru_as_the_first_Prime_Minister_of_republic_India_on_January_26,1950.png
| image_size =
| caption =
| date_formed = {{Start date|df=yes|1952|04|15}}
| date_dissolved = {{Start date|df=yes|1957|04|04}}
| government_head = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
| government_head_history =
| deputy_government_head =
| state_head = [[Rajendra Prasad]]
| members_number =
| former_members_number =
| total_number =
| political_party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| legislature_status = [[Majority government|Majority]]{{Composition bar|364|489|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}|background-color=|border border-color=darkgray|width=|per=1}}
| opposition_cabinet =
| opposition_party = ''None''
| opposition_leader = ''None''
| election = [[1951 Indian general election|1951]]
| last_election = [[1957 Indian general election|1957]]
| legislature_term = {{Age in years, months and days|1952|04|15|1957|04|04}}
| budget =
| advice_and_consent1 =
| advice_and_consent2 =

| incoming_formation =
| outgoing_formation =
| previous = [[First Cabinet of independent India|First Nehru ministry]]
| successor = [[Third Nehru ministry]]
}}

'''Jawaharlal Nehru''' was sworn in as [[Prime Minister of India]] on 15 August 1947. After [[1951 Indian general election|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==
===Cabinet ministers===
{{Cabinet table start|hiderefcol=n}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Minister of External Affairs (India)|Minister of External Affairs]] Minister of Defence (1952-10 January 1955; from 30 January 1957)
| minister1 = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
| minister1_termstart = [[First Cabinet of Independent India|First Nehru Ministry]]
| minister1_termend = [[Third Nehru ministry]]
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref =
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister without Portfolio (External Affairs)
| minister1 = [[V. K. Krishna Menon]]
| minister1_termstart = 14 February 1956
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="Minister56"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research
| minister1 = [[Abul Kalam Azad]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = [[Third Nehru ministry]]
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref =<ref name="debates"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = [[Minister of Finance (India)|Minister of Finance]]
| minister1 = [[C. D. Deshmukh]]
| minister1_termstart = First Nehru ministry
| minister1_termend = 24 July 1956
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref =<ref>{{cite web|title=Press Communique|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1956/CAB-1956-06-24_117.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=24 July 1956|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
| minister2 = [[T. T. Krishnamachari]]
| minister2_termstart = 1 September 1956
| minister2_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister2_party = Indian National Congress
| minister2_ref =<ref name="note56">{{cite web|title=Press Note|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1956/CAB-1956-08-30_119.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=30 August 1956|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = [[Minister of Home Affairs (India)|Minister of Home Affairs]] (Minister of Heavy Industries - additional charge from September–November 1956)
| minister1 = [[Kailash Nath Katju]]
| minister1_termstart = First Nehru ministry
| minister1_termend = 1955
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref =
| minister2 = [[Govind Ballabh Pant]]
| minister2_termstart = 10 January 1955
| minister2_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister2_party = Indian National Congress
| minister2_ref =<ref>{{cite web|title=Press Communique|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1955/CAB-1955-01-10_015.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=10 January 1955|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref><ref name="note56"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Food and Agriculture
| minister1 = [[Rafi Ahmed Kidwai]]
| minister1_termstart = First Nehru Ministry
| minister1_termend = 1954
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref =<ref name="debates"/>
| minister2 = [[Ajit Prasad Jain]]
| minister2_termstart = 25 November 1954
| minister2_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister2_party = Indian National Congress
| minister2_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Press Communique|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/CABINATE%20SECRETARIATE/1951-JAN-DEC-CABINET-SECRETIEAT/CAB-1954-11-25_009.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=25 November 1954|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = [[Minister of Defence (India)|Minister of Defence]]
| minister1 = [[Baldev Singh]]
| minister1_termstart = First Nehru Ministry
| minister1_termend = 1952
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref =
| minister2 = [[N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar]]
| minister2_termstart = 13 May 1952
| minister2_termend = 1952
| minister2_party = Indian National Congress
| minister2_ref =<ref name="debates"/>
| minister3 = Kailash Nath Katju
| minister3_termstart = 10 January 1955
| minister3_termend = 30 January 1957
| minister3_party = Indian National Congress
| minister3_ref =<ref>{{cite web|title=Press Communique|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1955/CAB-1955-01-10_014.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=10 January 1955|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Press Communique|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/CABINATE%20SECRETARIATE/1956-JAN-DEC-CABINET-SECRETARIAT/CAB-1957-01-30_023.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=30 January 1957|access-date=21 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Law and Minority Affairs
| minister1 = [[Charu Chandra Biswas]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = [[Minister of Railways (India)|Minister of Railways]]
| minister1 = [[N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar]]
| minister1_termstart = First Nehru Ministry
| minister1_termend = 13 May 1952
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref =
| minister2 = [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]
| minister2_termstart = 13 May 1952
| minister2_termend = 7 December 1956
| minister2_party = Indian National Congress
| minister2_ref =
| minister3 = [[Jagjivan Ram]]
| minister3_termstart = 7 December 1956
| minister3_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister3_party = Indian National Congress
| minister3_ref =
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Communications
| minister1 = Jagjivan Ram
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = 7 December 1956
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Commerce and Industry (to September 1956) Minister of Iron and Steel (from June 1955)
| minister1 = [[T. T. Krishnamachari]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Press Communique|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1955/CAB-1955-05-29_019.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=29 May 1955|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Heavy Industry and Commerce and Consumer Industries (to January 1957) Minister of Commerce and Industries (from January 1957)
| minister1 = [[Morarji Desai]]
| minister1_termstart = 14 November 1956
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Shri Morarji Desai|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/CABINATE%20SECRETARIATE/1956-JAN-DEC-CABINET-SECRETARIAT/CAB-1956-11-14_016.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=14 November 1956|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Press Note|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/CABINATE%20SECRETARIATE/1956-JAN-DEC-CABINET-SECRETARIAT/CAB-1956-12-30_021.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=1 January 1957|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Labour
| minister1 = [[V. V. Giri]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = September 1954
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/>
| minister2 = [[Khandubhai Kasanji Desai]]
| minister2_termstart = September 1954
| minister2_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister2_party = Indian National Congress
| minister2_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Press Communique|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/CABINATE%20SECRETARIATE/1951-JAN-DEC-CABINET-SECRETIEAT/CAB-1954-09-08_006.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=8 September 1954|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Works, Housing and Supply (Ministry of Commerce and Consumer Industries - additional charge September–November 1956)
| minister1 = [[Swaran Singh]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/><ref name="note56"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Planning and River Valley Schemes
| minister1 = [[Gulzarilal Nanda]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Health
| minister1 = [[Amrit Kaur]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Production
| minister1 = [[K. Chengalaraya Reddy]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/>
}}
|}

===Ministers of State===
{{Cabinet table start|hiderefcol=n}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = [[Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (India)|Minister of Parliamentary Affairs]]
| minister1 = [[Satya Narayan Sinha]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/LS/ataglace.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-07-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521205101/http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/LS/ataglace.htm |archive-date=2014-05-21 }} LOK SABHA</ref>
| minister1_termstart = First Nehru ministry
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Rehabilitation
| minister1 = [[Ajit Prasad Jain]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = 24 November 1954
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates">{{cite journal |date=13 May 1952 |title=Parliamentary Debates |url=https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/55142/3/lsd_01_01_13-05-1952.pdf |journal=Lok Sabha Debates |volume=1 |issue=1 |access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
| minister2 = [[Mehr Chand Khanna]]
| minister2_termstart = 7 December 1954
| minister2_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister2_party = Indian National Congress
| minister2_ref = <ref name="minister54">{{cite web|title=Press Communique|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1954/CAB-1954-12-07_011.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=7 December 1954|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of State (External Affairs)
| minister1 = [[Syed Mahmud]]
| minister1_termstart = 7 December 1954
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="minister54"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Agriculture
| minister1 = [[Panjabrao Deshmukh]]
| minister1_termstart = 17 April 1952
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref =
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Legal Affairs Minister of Civil Aviation (from 7 December 1956, additional charge)
| minister1 = [[Hari Vinayak Pataskar]]
| minister1_termstart = 7 December 1954
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="minister54"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Press Note|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1956/CAB-1956-12-07_127.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=7 December 1956|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Natural Resources
| minister1 = [[Keshav Dev Malaviya]]
| minister1_termstart = 7 December 1954
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="minister54"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Revenue and Expenditure
| minister1 = [[Mahavir Tyagi]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = 16 March 1953
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Revenue and Civil Expenditure
| minister1 = [[Manilal Chaturbhai Shah]]
| minister1_termstart = 7 December 1954
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="minister54"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Revenue and Defence Expenditure
| minister1 = [[Arun Chandra Guha]]
| minister1_termstart = 7 December 1954
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="minister54"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Defence Organisation
| minister1 = [[Mahavir Tyagi]]
| minister1_termstart = 16 March 1953
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Shri Tyagi Appointed Minister of Defense Organisation|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1953/CAB-1953-03-15_103.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=15 March 1953|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Commerce (Minister of Trade from June 1956)
| minister1 = D. P. Karmarkar
| minister1_termstart = 6 August 1955
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Minister for Industries|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1955/CAB-1955-08-06_023.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=6 August 1955|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref><ref name="min_desig">{{cite web|title=Ministers' Designations|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1956/CAB-1956-06-13_116.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=13 June 1956|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Industries (Minister of Consumer Industries from June 1956)
| minister1 = [[Nityanand Kanungo]]
| minister1_termstart = 6 August 1955
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Minister for Industries|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1955/CAB-1955-08-06_023.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=6 August 1955|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ministers' Designations|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1956/CAB-1956-06-13_116.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=13 June 1956|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref><ref name="min_desig"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Industrial Development (Minister of Heavy Industry from June 1956)
| minister1 = [[Manubhai Shah]]
| minister1_termstart = May 1956
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Portfolios of New Ministers|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1956/CAB-1956-04-30_111.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=30 May 1956|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref><ref name="min_desig"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Minister of Information and Broadcasting]]
| minister1 = [[B V Keskar|B. V. Keskar]]
| minister1_termstart = 15 April 1952
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="debates"/>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of State (Home Affairs)
| minister1 = B. N. Datar
| minister1_termstart = 14 February 1956
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="Minister56">{{cite web|title=Press Communique|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1956/CAB-1956-02-14_109.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=14 February 1956|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Community Development
| minister1 = [[S. K. Dey]]
| minister1_termstart = September 1956
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Minister for Community Development|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveFirstPhase/CABINET%20SECTT/1956/CAB-1956-09-18_122.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=14 February 1956|access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref>
}}
{{Cabinet table minister
| title = Minister of Communications
| minister1 = [[Raj Bahadur]]
| minister1_termstart = 14 February 1956
| minister1_termend = Third Nehru Ministry
| minister1_party = Indian National Congress
| minister1_ref = <ref name="Minister56"/>
}}
|}

==References==
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{{Jawaharlal Nehru}}

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[[Category:Nehru administration]]
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