List Of Prime Ministers Of India: Wiki list article
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.
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Prime ministers
| No | 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 | ||||||||
| - | Ghulzarilal Nanda (1898-1998) | .jpg) | IndianNationalCongress | 27 May 1964 | 9 June 1964 | 13 days | -( 3rd ) | Nanda | Rajendra Prasad |
| 2 | Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad | .jpg) | Indian National Congress | 9 June 1964 | 11 January 1966[†] | 1 year, 216 days | – (3rd) | Shastri | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| (-) | Gulzarilal Nanda (1898-1998) | | Indian National Congress | 11 January 1966 | 24 January 1966 | 13 days | - (3rd) | Nanda II | |
| 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 | |
| 6 | Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi | .jpg) | 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 | .jpg) | Janata Dal (National Front) | 2 December 1989 | 10 November 1990[NC] | 343 days | 1989 (9th) | V. P. Singh | R. Venkataraman |
| 8 | 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 (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow |  | Bharatiya Janata Party | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996[RES] | 13 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 | 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 | ||||||||
| 13 | Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Assam | .jpg) | 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 Damodardas Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi | .jpg) | Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) | 26 May 2014 | Incumbent | 9 years, 290 days | 2014 (16th) | N. Modi I | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 2019 (17th) | N. Modi II | Ram Nath Kovind | |||||||
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