List of prime ministers of India
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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
[change | change source]- №: 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
[change | change source]| No | Name (birth–death); constituency |
Portrait | Party (Alliance) |
Term of office | Elections (Lok Sabha) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur |
|
Indian National Congress | 15 August 1947 |
27 May 1964[†] |
— |
| 1952 (1st) | ||||||
| 1957 (2nd) | ||||||
| 1962 (3rd) | ||||||
| 2 | Ghulzarilal
Nanda (1898-1998) |
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|
IndianNationalCongress | 27 May
1964 |
9 June
1964 |
-( 3rd ) |
| 3 | Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad |
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|
Indian National Congress | 9 June 1964 |
11 January 1966[†] |
– (3rd) |
| 4 | Gulzarilal Nanda (1898-1998) |
|
Indian National Congress | 11 January
1966 |
24 January
1966 |
- (3rd) |
| 5 | Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli |
|
Indian National Congress | 24 January 1966 |
24 March 1977 |
– (3rd) |
| 1967 (4th) | ||||||
| 1971 (5th) | ||||||
| 6 | Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat |
|
Janata Party | 24 March 1977 |
28 July 1979[RES] |
1977 (6th) |
| 7 | Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat |
|
Janata Party (Secular) with INC |
28 July 1979 |
14 January 1980[RES] |
– (6th) |
| 8 | Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Medak |
|
Indian National Congress (I) | 14 January 1980[§] |
31 October 1984[†] |
1980 (7th) |
| 9 | Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi |
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|
Indian National Congress (I) | 31 October 1984 |
2 December 1989 |
– (7th) |
| 1984 (8th) | ||||||
| 10 | V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur |
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|
Janata Dal (National Front) |
2 December 1989 |
10 November 1990[NC] |
1989 (9th) |
| 11 | Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia |
|
Samajwadi Janata Party with INC |
10 November 1990 |
21 June 1991 |
– (9th) |
| 12 | P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal |
|
Indian National Congress (I) | 21 June 1991 |
16 May 1996 |
1991 (10th) |
| 13 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow |
|
Bharatiya Janata Party | 16 May 1996 |
1 June 1996[RES] |
1996 (11th) |
| 14 | H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Karnataka |
|
Janata Dal (United Front) |
1 June 1996 |
21 April 1997[RES] |
– (11th) |
| 15 | I. K. Gujral (1919–2012) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Bihar |
|
Janata Dal (United Front) |
21 April 1997 |
19 March 1998 |
– (11th) |
| 16 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow |
|
Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
19 March 1998[§] |
22 May 2004 |
1998 (12th) |
| 1999 (13th) | ||||||
| 17 | Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Assam |
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|
Indian National Congress (UPA) |
22 May 2004 |
26 May 2014 |
2004 (14th) |
| 2009 (15th) | ||||||
| 18 | Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi |
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|
Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) |
26 May 2014[1] |
Incumbent | 2014 (16th) |
| 2019 (17th) | ||||||
| 19 | — | |||||
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Narendra Modi appointed Prime Minister, swearing in on May 26". The Times of India. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2015.