List of Prime Ministers of India

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List of Prime Ministers of India

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The Prime Minister of India is the chief executive of the Government of India. In India's
parliamentary system, the Constitution names the President as head of state de jure, but
his de facto executive powers are vested in the Prime Minister and his Council of
Ministers. Appointed and sworn-in by the President, the Prime Minister is usually the
leader of the party or alliance that has a majority in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of
India's Parliament.
Since 1947, India has had fifteen prime ministers, including Gulzarilal Nanda who twice
acted in the role. The first was Jawaharlal Nehru of the Indian National Congress party,
who was sworn-in on 15 August 1947, when India gained independence from the British.
Serving until his death in May 1964, Nehru remains India's longest-serving prime minister.
He was succeeded by fellow Congressman Lal Bahadur Shastri, whose 19-month term also
ended in death. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, succeeded Shastri in 1966 to become the
country's first woman premier. Over eleven years later, she was voted out of power in
favour of the Janata Party, whose leader Morarji Desai became the first non-Congress
prime minister. After he resigned in 1979, his former deputy Charan Singh briefly held
office until Indira Gandhi was voted back in six months later. Indira Gandhi's second stint
as Prime Minister ended five years later on the morning of 31 October 1984, when she was
gunned down by her own bodyguards. That evening, her son Rajiv Gandhi was sworn-in
as India's youngest premier, and the third from his family.
Narendra Modi is the current

(14th) Prime Minister of India,
since 26 May 2014.
Rajiv's five-year term ended with his former cabinet colleague, V. P. Singh of the Janata Dal, forming the year-long National
Front coalition government in 1989. A six-month interlude under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar followed, after which
the Congress party returned to power, forming the government under P. V. Narasimha Rao in June 1991. Rao's five-year
term was succeeded by four short-lived governmentsthe Bharatiya Janata Party's Atal Bihari Vajpayee for 13 days in 1996,
a year each under United Front prime ministers H. D. Deve Gowda and I. K. Gujral, and Vajpayee again for 19 months in
199899. After Vajpayee was sworn-in for the third time, in 1999, he managed to lead his National Democratic Alliance
(NDA) government to a full five-year term, the first non-Congressman to do so. Vajpayee was succeeded by Congressman
Manmohan Singh, the first Sikh premier, whose United Progressive Alliance government was in office for 10 years between
2004 and 2014.
The incumbent Prime Minister of India is Narendra Modi who has headed the BJP-led NDA government since 26 May 2014.
Contents
1 Key
2 Prime Ministers
3 See also
4 References
Key
Colour key for party of the prime minister
Bharatiya Janata Party
Indian National Congress
designated Indian National Congress (I) 19771996[1]
Janata Dal
Janata Party
Janata Party (Secular)
Samajwadi Janata Party
Prime Ministers
Other key
: Incumbent number
Assassinated or died in office
Returned to office after a previous term
RES
NC
Resigned
Resigned following a no-confidence motion
Name
(birth
death);
constituency
Jawaharlal
Nehru
1
(18891964)
MP for
Phulpur
Gulzarilal
Nanda
-
(18981999)
MP for
Sabarkantha
Lal Bahadur
Shastri
2
(190466)
MP for
Allahabad
Gulzarilal
Nanda
-
(18981999)
MP for
Sabarkantha
Indira
Gandhi
3
(191784)
MP for Rae
Bareli
Morarji
Desai
(18961995)
MP for Surat
Charan
Singh
5
(190287)
MP for
Baghpat
Portrait
Party
Term of office[2]
(Alliance)
Indian
National
Congress
Indian
National
Congress
Indian
National
Congress
15 August
27 May
1947
1964[]
27 May
9 June
1964
1964
9 June
11 January
1964
1966[]
Council
of
(Lok Sabha)
Ministers
Elections
Nehru I
1952 (1st)
Nehru II
1957 (2nd)
Nehru III
1962 (3rd)
Nehru IV
13 days
(3rd)
(acting)
1 year,
216 days
(3rd)
Shastri
16 years,
286 days
Appointed by
Lord
Mountbatten
Rajendra
Prasad
Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
Indian
National
Congress
11
January
1966
24 January
1966
13 days
(3rd)
(acting)
(3rd)
Indian
National
Congress
Janata
Party
Janata
Party
(Secular)
24
January
1966
24 March
1977
24 March
28 July
1977
1979[RES]
28 July
14 January
1979
1980[RES]
11 years,
59 days
I. Gandhi I
1967 (4th)
1971 (5th)
I. Gandhi II
V. V. Giri
2 years,
126 days
1977 (6th)
Desai
B. D. Jatti
170 days
(6th)
C. Singh
with INC
Neelam
Sanjiva Reddy
(3)
Indira
Gandhi
(191784)
MP for Medak
Indian
National
Congress
(I)
14
January
1980[]
31 October
1984[]
4 years,
291 days
1980 (7th)
I. Gandhi
III
Rajiv
Gandhi
(194491)
MP for Amethi
V. P. Singh
7
(19312008)
MP for
Fatehpur
Chandra
Shekhar
(19272007)
MP for Ballia
P. V.
Narasimha
Rao
(19212004)
MP for
Nandyal
Atal Bihari
Vajpayee
10
(born 1924)
MP for
Lucknow
H. D. Deve
Gowda
11
(born 1933)
MP (Rajya
Sabha) for
Karnataka
Indian
National
Congress
(I)
Janata Dal
(National
Front)
31
October
1984
(7th)
2 December
1989
R. Gandhi
Zail Singh
1984 (8th)
2
December
10
November
1989
1990[NC]
Samajwadi
10
Janata
November
Party
1990
5 years,
32 days
21 June
1991
343 days
1989 (9th)
V. P. Singh
223 days
(9th)
Chandra
Shekhar
4 years,
330 days
1991
(10th)
Rao
13 days
1996
(11th)
Vajpayee I
324 days
(11th)
Deve
Gowda
332 days
(11th)
Gujral
1998
(12th)
Vajpayee II
1999
(13th)
Vajpayee III
2004
(14th)
M. Singh I
A. P. J. Abdul
Kalam
2009
(15th)
M. Singh II
Pratibha Patil
R.
Venkataraman
with INC
Indian
National
Congress
(I)
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
Janata Dal
(United
Front)
21 June
16 May
1991
1996
16 May
1 June
1996
1996[RES]
1 June
21 April
1996
1997[RES]
21 April
19 March
1997
1998
Shankar Dayal
Sharma
I. K. Gujral
12
(19192012)
MP (Rajya
Sabha) for
Bihar
Atal Bihari
Vajpayee
(10)
(born 1924)
MP for
Lucknow
Manmohan
Singh
13
(born 1932)
MP (Rajya
Sabha) for
Assam
Janata Dal
(United
Front)
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
19 March
22 May
1998[]
2004
6 years,
64 days
(NDA)
Indian
National
Congress
(UPA)
22 May
26 May
2004
2014
10 years,
4 days
K. R.
Narayanan
Narendra
Modi
14
(born 1950)
MP for
Varanasi
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
26 May
2014[3]
Incumbent
0 years,
309 days
2014
(16th)
Modi
Pranab
Mukherjee
(NDA)
See also
Prime Minister's Office
List of Prime Ministers of India by longevity
References
1. ^ "Indian National Congress" (http://www.britannica.com
3. ^ "Narendra Modi appointed Prime Minister, swearing in on
/EBchecked/topic/285841/Indian-National-Congress/232140
May 26" (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Home/Lok-
/Postindependence-from-dominance-to-decline).
Sabha-Elections-2014/News/Narendra-Modi-appointed-Prime-
Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
Minister-swearing-in-on-May-26/articleshow/35388297.cms).
2. ^ "Former Prime Ministers" (http://pmindia.gov.in/en/former-
The Times of India. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
prime-ministers/). PM India. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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