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.
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№: Incumbent number
† Assassinated or died in office
§ Returned to office after a previous term
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NC Resigned following a no-confidence motion
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Name(birth–death); constituency
Portrait
Party(Alliance )
Term of office[2]
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[RES]
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[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
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[NC]
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[RES]
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[RES]
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[3]
Incumbent
8 years, 26 days
2014 (16th )
N. Modi I
Pranab Mukherjee
2019 (17th )
N. Modi II
Ram Nath Kovind