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 head of government of India, chief adviser to the President of India, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament. 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.^[1]

The current prime minister is Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janta Party. He was sworn in on 30 May 2019.

Key[edit | edit source]

Colour key for party of the prime minister

Bharatiya Janata Party
Indian National Congress
designated Indian National Congress (I) 1977–1996^[2]
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[edit | edit source]

№	Name (birth–death); constituency	Portrait	Party (Alliance)	Term of office^[3]			Elections (Lok Sabha)	Council of Ministers	Appointed by
1	Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur	File:Jnehru.jpg	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)	I. Gandhi I
							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	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
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
7	Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi		Indian National Congress (I)	31 October 1984	2 December 1989	5 years, 32 days	1984 (8th)	R. Gandhi	Zail Singh
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
(10)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	19 March 1998^[§]	22 May 2004	6 years, 64 days	1999 (13th)	Vajpayee III	K. R. Narayanan
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
14	Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Assam		Indian National Congress (UPA)	22 May 2004	26 May 2014	10 years, 4 days	2009 (15th)	M. Singh II	Pratibha Patil
15	Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	26 May 2014^[4]	Incumbent	12 years, 102 days	2014 (16th)	N. Modi	Pranab Mukherjee