| Cabinet Name: | Third Atal Bihari Vajpayee ministry |
| Cabinet Type: | ministry |
| Cabinet Number: | 21st |
| Jurisdiction: | the Republic of India |
| Date Formed: | 13 October 1999 |
| Date Dissolved: | 22 May 2004 |
| Government Head: | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Deputy Government Head: | L. K. Advani |
| State Head: | K. R. Narayanan (until 25 July 2002) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (from 25 July 2002) |
| Legislature Status: | Coalition |
| Election: | 1999 |
| Last Election: | 2004 |
| Opposition Party: | Indian National Congress (Congress alliance) |
| Opposition Leader: | Sonia Gandhi (in Lok Sabha) (13 October 1999 – 6 February 2004) Manmohan Singh (in Rajya Sabha) (till 21 May 2004) |
| Previous: | Second Vajpayee ministry |
| Successor: | First Manmohan Singh ministry |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister of India for third time on 13 October 1999. He headed his Third Vajpayee Ministry. Here is the list of ministers in his ministry.
In a reshuffle on 29 September 2000, Venkaiah Naidu and Sushma Swaraj were inducted in the ministry as cabinet ministers and Shripad Yasso Naik (Goa), Satyabrata Mukherjee (West Bengal), Kanyakumari MP P.Radhakrishnan and film star-turned-MP U V Krishnam Raju (Andhra Pradesh) as minister of state. Later that year Uma Bharti was elevated to cabinet rank.http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/sep/30cab.htm
In a reshuffle in 2001 Vajpayee inducted Karia Munda, Ved Prakash Goyal, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain and Tapan Sikdar as Cabinet ministers and Anna Sahib Patil, Ashok Pradhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Rajiv Pratap Rudy as ministers of state.http://www.indiatodaygroup.com/btoday/20010930/people.html
In a reshuffle in 2002 he dropped four ministers and inducted four new cabinet ministers and nine new ministers of state. New cabinet ministers were: Shatrughan Sinha, Sahib Singh Verma, Jana Krishnamurthy, Balasaheb Vikhe Patil. The new ministers of state were: Basangouda Patil, Sanjay Paswan, Shripad Yasso Naik, Vinod Khanna, Nikhil Chaudhary, S.Thirunavukarasar, Anant Geete and A. K. Moorthy .http://www.kodava.org/kf/Jul2002/kf070202.htm
In a reshuffle in 2003 Vajpayee inducted three new cabinet rank ministers and five ministers of state . The new cabinet ministers were :Rajnath Singh, B.C. Khanduri and Subodh Mohite. The new ministers of state were : Chinmayanand Swami (BJP), Kailash Meghwal (BJP), Nagmani (Rashtriya Janata Dal-Democratic), Prahlad Singh Patel (BJP) and P.C. Thomas (Indian Federal Democratic Party).
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| Bharatiya Janata Party | 30 | 4 | 21 | 55 | |
| Shiromani Akali Dal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Shiv Sena | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Samta Party | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Lok Janshakti Party | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| All India Trinamool Congress | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Biju Janata Dal | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Janata Dal (United) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |