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List of prime ministers of India

Narendra Damodar Das Modi is the current prime minister of India, since 26 May 2014.

The prime minister of India, is the chief executive of the government of India. The prime minister leads the executive branch and chairs the Council of Ministers.

Since the Independence of India, India has had fifteen prime ministers. The first was Jawaharlal Nehru of the Indian National Congress party.

The current prime minister is Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2014.

Key

  • №: Incumbent number
  • †  Assassinated or died in office
  • §  Returned to office after a previous term
  • RES  Resigned
  • NC  Resigned following a no-confidence motion

Prime ministers

No Name
(birth–death); constituency 		Portrait Party
(Alliance) 		Term of office[1] Elections
(Lok Sabha) 		Council of
Ministers 		Appointed by
1 Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889–1964)
MP for Phulpur 		  Indian National Congress 15 August
1947 		27 May
1964[†]		 16 years, 286 days — Nehru I Lord Mountbatten
1952 (1st) Nehru II Rajendra Prasad
1957 (2nd) Nehru III
1962 (3rd) Nehru IV
- Ghulzarilal

Nanda (1898-1998)

  IndianNationalCongress 27 May

1964

9 June

1964

13 days -( 3rd ) Nanda Rajendra

Prasad

2 Lal Bahadur Shastri
(1904–1966)
MP for Allahabad 		  Indian National Congress 9 June
1964 		11 January
1966[†]		 1 year, 216 days  – (3rd) Shastri Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
(-) Gulzarilal Nanda (1898-1998)   Indian National Congress 11 January

1966

24 January

1966

13 days - (3rd) Nanda II
3 Indira Gandhi
(1917–1984)
MP for Rae Bareli 		  Indian National Congress 24 January
1966 		24 March
1977 		11 years, 59 days  – (3rd) I. Gandhi I
1967 (4th)
1971 (5th) I. Gandhi II V. V. Giri
4 Morarji Desai
(1896–1995)
MP for Surat 		  Janata Party 24 March
1977 		28 July
1979[RES]		 2 years, 126 days 1977 (6th) Desai B. D. Jatti
5 Charan Singh
(1902–1987)
MP for Baghpat 		  Janata Party (Secular)
with INC 		28 July
1979 		14 January
1980[RES]		 170 days  – (6th) C. Singh Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
(3) Indira Gandhi
(1917–1984)
MP for Medak 		  Indian National Congress (I) 14 January
1980[§]		 31 October
1984[†]		 4 years, 291 days 1980 (7th) I. Gandhi III
6 Rajiv Gandhi
(1944–1991)
MP for Amethi 		  Indian National Congress (I) 31 October
1984 		2 December
1989 		5 years, 32 days  – (7th) R. Gandhi Zail Singh
1984 (8th)
7 V. P. Singh
(1931–2008)
MP for Fatehpur 		  Janata Dal
(National Front) 		2 December
1989 		10 November
1990[NC]		 343 days 1989 (9th) V. P. Singh R. Venkataraman
8 Chandra Shekhar
(1927–2007)
MP for Ballia 		  Samajwadi Janata Party
with INC 		10 November
1990 		21 June
1991 		223 days  – (9th) Chandra Shekhar
9 P. V. Narasimha Rao
(1921–2004)
MP for Nandyal 		  Indian National Congress (I) 21 June
1991 		16 May
1996 		4 years, 330 days 1991 (10th) Rao
10 Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924–2018)
MP for Lucknow 		  Bharatiya Janata Party 16 May
1996 		1 June
1996[RES]		 13 days 1996 (11th) Vajpayee I Shankar Dayal Sharma
11 H. D. Deve Gowda
(born 1933)
MP (Rajya Sabha) for Karnataka 		  Janata Dal
(United Front) 		1 June
1996 		21 April
1997[RES]		 324 days – (11th) Deve Gowda
12 I. K. Gujral
(1919–2012)
MP (Rajya Sabha) for Bihar 		  Janata Dal
(United Front) 		21 April
1997 		19 March
1998 		332 days  – (11th) Gujral
(10) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(1924–2018)
MP for Lucknow 		  Bharatiya Janata Party
(NDA) 		19 March
1998[§]		 22 May
2004 		6 years, 64 days 1998 (12th) Vajpayee II K. R. Narayanan
1999 (13th) Vajpayee III
13 Manmohan Singh
(born 1932)
MP (Rajya Sabha) for Assam 		  Indian National Congress
(UPA) 		22 May
2004 		26 May
2014 		10 years, 4 days 2004 (14th) M. Singh I A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
2009 (15th) M. Singh II Pratibha Patil
14 Narendra Damodardas Modi
(born 1950)
MP for Varanasi 		  Bharatiya Janata Party
(NDA) 		26 May
2014[2]		 Incumbent 8 years, 100 days 2014 (16th) N. Modi I Pranab Mukherjee
2019 (17th) N. Modi II Ram Nath Kovind

List Of Prime Ministers Of India Media

  • Gulzarilal Nanda, Former Acting Prime Minister of the Republic of India

  • Lal Bahadur Shastri (from stamp)

  • Gulzarilal Nanda, Former Acting Prime Minister of the Republic of India

  • Indira Gandhi, Former Prime Minister of the Republic of India

  • Morarji Desai During his visit to the United States of America (cropped)

  • Prime minister Charan Singh

  • Indira Gandhi, Former Prime Minister of the Republic of India

  • Rajiv Gandhi, the 6th PM of India

References

  1. ↑ "Former Prime Ministers". PM India. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Narendra Modi appointed Prime Minister, swearing in on May 26". The Times of India. 20 May 2014. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Home/Lok-Sabha-Elections-2014/News/Narendra-Modi-appointed-Prime-Minister-swearing-in-on-May-26/articleshow/35388297.cms. Retrieved 22 January 2015. 
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