Prime Ministers[edit]

Name
(birthdeath);
constituency
Portrait
Party
(Alliance)
Term of office
[2]

Elections
(Lok Sabha)
Council
of
Ministers
Appointed by
1
Jawaharlal
Nehru
(18891964)
MP forPhulpur

Indian
National
Congress
15 August
1947
27 May
1964
[]

16 years,286 days
d Nehru I
Lord
Mountbatten
1952 (1st) Nehru II
Rajendra
Prasad
1957 (2nd) Nehru III
1962 (3rd) Nehru IV
2
Gulzarilal
Nanda
(18981998)
MP
forSabarkantha

Indian
National
Congress
27 May
1964
9 June
1964
13 days (3rd) (acting)
Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
3
Lal Bahadur
Shastri
(190466)
MP
forAllahabad

Indian
National
Congress
9 June
1964
11 January
1966
[]

1 year,216 days (3rd) Shastri
(2)
Gulzarilal
Nanda
(18981998)
MP
forSabarkantha

Indian
National
Congress
11
January
1966
24 January
1966
13 days (3rd) (acting)
4
Indira Gandhi
(191784)
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
(18961995)
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
(190287)
MP forBaghpat

Janata
Party
(Secular)
with INC
28 July
1979
14 January
1980
[RES]

170 days (6th) C. Singh
Neelam
Sanjiva Reddy
(4)
Indira Gandhi
(191784)
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
(194491)
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
(19312008)
MP
forFatehpur

Janata Dal
(National
Front)
2
December
1989
10
November
1990
[NC]

343 days 1989 (9th)
V. P.
Singh
R.
Venkataraman
9
Chandra
Shekhar
(19272007)
MP for Ballia

Samajwadi
Janata
Party
with INC
10
November
1990
21 June
1991
223 days (9th)
Chandra
Shekhar
10
P. V.
Narasimha
Rao
(19212004)
MP forNandyal

Indian
National
Congress
(I)
21 June
1991
16 May
1996
4 years,330 days 1991 (10th) Rao
11
Atal Bihari
Vajpayee
(born 1924)
MP
forLucknow

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)
forKarnataka


Janata
Dal
(United
Front)
1 June
1996
21 April
1997
[RES]

324 days (11th)
13
I. K. Gujral
(19192012)
MP (Rajya
Sabha)
forBihar

Janata Dal
(United
Front)
21 April
1997
19 March
1998
332 days (11th) Gujral
(11)
Atal Bihari
Vajpayee
(born 1924)
MP
forLucknow

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)
forAssam

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
Modi
(born 1950)
MP
forVaranasi

Bharatiya
Janata
Party
(NDA)
26 May
2014
Incumbent 0 years,117 days 2014 (16th) Modi
Pranab
Mukherjee