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 administrative authority of the government of India, the chief adviser to the president of India, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in the parliament of India. The prime minister leads the executive branch of the Government of India.

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

Colour key for party of the prime minister

•   Bharatiya Janata Party
•   Indian National Congress
  designated Indian National Congress (I) 1977–1996
•   Janata Dal
•   Janata Party
•   Janata Party (Secular)
•   Samajwadi Janata Party

Other 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

№	Name (birth–death); constituency	Portrait	Party (Alliance)	Term of office			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
2	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha		Indian National Congress	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days	– (3rd)	(acting)	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad		Indian National Congress	9 June 1964	11 January 1966	1 year, 216 days	– (3rd)	Shastri
(2)	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha		Indian National Congress	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days	– (3rd)	(acting)
4	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
5	Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat		Janata Party	24 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 126 days	1977 (6th)	Desai	B. D. Jatti
6	Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat		Janata Party (Secular) with INC	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	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
7	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)
8	V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur		Janata Dal (National Front)	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	1989 (9th)	V. P. Singh	R. Venkataraman
9	Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia		Samajwadi Janata Party with INC	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	223 days	– (9th)	Chandra Shekhar
10	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
11	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow		Bharatiya Janata Party	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	13 days	1996 (11th)	Vajpayee I	Shankar Dayal Sharma
12	H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Karnataka		Janata Dal (United Front)	1 June 1996	21 April 1997	324 days	– (11th)	Deve Gowda
13	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
14	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
15	Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	26 May 2014	Incumbent	8 years, 26 days	2014 (16th)	N. Modi I	Pranab Mukherjee
							2019 (17th)	N. Modi II	Ram Nath Kovind