Manmohan's ministers who contested polls and who backed out

Updated: Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 16:41 [IST]

Bangalore, May 13: A day after the exit polls projected a BJP-led NDA government in the future, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be chairing his last Cabinet meet on Tuesday.

Singh will address the people in his farewell speech on May 17, the day when he will be demitting his office. Singh on Tuesday will also host a dinners for his officers. After the exit polls projection, here is alook at the list of Singh's Cabinet ministers who contested the Lok Sabha elections.

Singh's Cabinet Ministers (who contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections) and their portfolios in UPA II-

Name	portfolio	LS Constituency
Pawan Kumar Bansal	Minister of Railways	Chandigarh
Sushilkumar Shinde	Minister of Home Affairs	Solapur SC
Salman Khurshid	Minister of External Affairs	Farrukhabad, UP
S Jaipal Reddy	Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences	Mahbubnagar, Telangana
Ghulam Nabi Azad	Minister of Health and Family Welfare	Uddhampur, J&K
Farooq Abdullah	Minister of New and Renewable Energy	Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Veerappa Moily	Minister of Petroleum	Chkkaballapur, Karnakata
Ajit Singh	Minister of Civil Aviation	Bagpat, UP
Mallikarjun Kharge	Minister of Labour and Employment	Gulbarga, Karnataka
M M Pallam Raju	Minister of HRD	Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh
Kapil Sibal	Minister of Communication and Information Technology	Chandni Chowk, Delhi
Ajay Maken	Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation	New Delhi
Chandresh Kumari	Minister of Culture	Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Kamal Nath	Minister of Urban Development, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs	Chindwara, Madhya Pradesh
Sriprakash Jaiswal	Minister of Coal	Kanpur, UP
Dinsha Patel	Minister of Mines	Kheda, Gujarat
Kishore Chandra Deo	Minister of Tribal Affairs and Minister of Panchayati Raj	Araku, Andhra Pradesh
Beni Prasad Verma	Minister of Steel	Gonda, UP
Praful Patel	Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Bhandara, Gondiya

Following are some star Cabinet Ministers who gave the elections a miss-

1. Manish Tewari- Minister of Information and Broadcasting
2. AK Antony- Minister of Defence
3. Jairam Ramesh- Minister of Rural Development
4. MK Alagiri- Former Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
5. Harish Rawat- Minister of Water Resources
6. P Chidambaram- Finance Minister

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