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Narendra Modi is the current (14th)
Prime Minister of India, since 26
May 2014.
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 sworn­in 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 fourteen Prime Ministers, fifteen including Gulzarilal
Nanda who twice acted in the role. The first was Jawaharlal Nehru of the Indian
National Congress party, who was sworn­in on 15 August 1947, when India
gained independence from the British. Serving until his death in May 1964,
Nehru remains India's longest­serving prime minister. He was succeeded by
fellow Congressman Lal Bahadur Shastri, whose 19­month term also ended in
death. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, succeeded Shastri in 1966 to become
the country's first woman premier. Eleven years later, she was voted out of
power in favour of the Janata Party, whose leader Morarji Desai became the
first non­Congress 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 sworn­in as India's youngest premier, and the third from his
family.
Rajiv's five­year term ended with his former cabinet colleague, V. P. Singh of the Janata Dal, forming the year­long
National Front coalition government in 1989. A six­month 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 five­year term was succeeded by four short­lived governments—the 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 1998–99. After Vajpayee was sworn­in for the third time, in 1999, he managed to lead
his National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government to a full five­year term, the first non­Congressman 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 BJP­led NDA government since 26 May
2014.
Contents
1 Key
2 Prime Ministers of India
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) 1977–1996[1]
Other key
№: Incumbent number
† Assassinated or died in office
§ Returned to office after a previous term
RES Resigned

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Janata Dal
Janata Party
Janata Party (Secular)
Samajwadi Janata Party
NC Resigned following a no­confidence 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
–
Gulzarilal
Nanda
(1898–1998)
MP for
Sabarkantha
Indian
National
Congress
27 May
1964
9 June
1964
13 days – (3rd) (acting)
Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
2
Lal
Bahadur
Shastri
(1904–1966)
MP for
Allahabad
Indian
National
Congress
9 June
1964
11 January
1966[†]
1 year,
216 days
– (3rd) Shastri
–
Gulzarilal
Nanda
(1898–1998)
MP for
Sabarkantha
Indian
National
Congress
11
January
1966
24 January
1966
13 days – (3rd) (acting)
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

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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.
Venkataraman8
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
(born 1924)
MP for
Lucknow
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
16 May
1996
1 June
1996[RES] 16 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
Inder
Kumar
Gujral
(1919–2012)
MP (Rajya
Janata Dal
(United
Front)
21 April
1997
19 March
1998
332 days – (11th) Gujral

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Sabha) for
Bihar
(10)
Atal Bihari
Vajpayee
(born 1924)
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
Modi
(born 1950)
MP for
Varanasi
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
(NDA)
26 May
2014[3] Incumbent
2 years,
152 days
2014
(16th)
Modi
Pranab
Mukherjee
See also
Prime Minister's Office
List of Prime Ministers of India by longevity
List of Presidents of India
References
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