List of prime ministers of India

Template:Politics of India The prime minister of India is the chief executive of the Government of India and chair of the Union Council of Ministers.<ref name="pillay-cri-pm-1">Template:Citation</ref><ref name="dam-1">Template:Citation</ref> Although the president of India is the constitutional, nominal, and ceremonial head of state,<ref name="pillay-cri-pm-2">Template:Citation</ref><ref name="majeed-roi-1">Template:Citation</ref><ref name="dam-2">Template:Citation</ref><ref name="nsingh-india">Template:Citation</ref> in practice and ordinarily, the executive authority is vested in the prime minister and their chosen Council of Ministers.<ref name="majeed-roi-2">Template:Citation</ref><ref name="dam-3">Template:Citation</ref><ref name="nsingh-india" /> The prime minister is the leader elected by the party with a majority in the lower house of the Indian parliament, the Lok Sabha, which is the main legislative body in the Republic of India.<ref name="pillay-cri-pm-3">Template:Citation</ref> The prime minister and their cabinet are at all times responsible to the Lok Sabha.<ref name="dam-4">Template:Citation</ref><ref name="majeed-roi-3">Template:Citation</ref> The prime minister can be a member of the Lok Sabha or of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the parliament. The prime minister ranks third in the order of precedence. Template:Multiple image

The prime minister is appointed by the president of India; however, the prime minister has to enjoy the confidence of the majority of Lok Sabha members, who are directly elected every five years, unless a prime minister resigns. The prime minister is the presiding member of the Council of Ministers of the Union government. The prime minister unilaterally controls the selection and dismissal of members of the council; and allocation of posts to members within the government. This council, which is collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha as per Article 75(3), assists the president regarding the operations under the latter's powers; however, by the virtue of Article 74 of the Constitution, such 'aid and advice' tendered by the council is binding.

Since 1947, India has had 14 prime ministers.Template:Efn Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first prime minister, serving as prime minister of the Dominion of India from 15 August 1947 until 26 January 1950, and thereafter of the Republic of India until his death in May 1964. (India conducted its first post-independence general elections in 1952). Earlier, Nehru had served as prime minister of the Interim Government of India during the British Raj from 2 September 1946 until 14 August 1947, his party, the Indian National Congress having won the 1946 Indian provincial elections. Nehru was succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri, whose 1 year 7-month term ended in his death in Tashkent, then in the USSR, where he had signed the Tashkent Declaration between India and Pakistan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, succeeded Shastri in 1966 to become the country's first female prime minister.<ref name="indira">Template:Cite news</ref> Eleven years later, her party, the Indian National Congress, lost the 1977 Indian general election to the Janata Party, whose leader Morarji Desai became the first non-Congress prime minister.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After Desai resigned in 1979, his former associate Charan Singh briefly held office until the Congress won the 1980 Indian general election and Indira Gandhi returned as prime minister.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her second term as prime minister ended five years later on 31 October 1984, when she was assassinated by her bodyguards.<ref name="indira" /> Her son Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as India's youngest premier. Members of [[NehruTemplate:EndashGandhi family]] have been prime minister for approximately 38 years.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

After a general election loss, Rajiv Gandhi's five-year term ended; his former cabinet colleague, V. P. Singh of the Janata Dal, formed the year-long National Front coalition government in 1989. A seven-month 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, Rajiv Gandhi having been assassinated earlier that year.<ref name=former>Template:Cite web</ref> Rao's five-year term was succeeded by four short-lived governments—Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 13 days in 1996, a year each under United Front prime ministers H. D. Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral, and Vajpayee again for 13 months in 1998–1999.<ref name=former/> In 1999, Vajpayee's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won the general election, the first non-Congress alliance to do so, and he served a full five-year term as prime minister.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Congress and its United Progressive Alliance (UPA) won the general elections in 2004 and 2009, Manmohan Singh serving as prime minister between 2004 and 2014.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The BJP won the 2014 Indian general election, and its parliamentary leader Narendra Modi formed the first non-Congress single-party majority government.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The BJP went on to win the 2019 Indian general election with a bigger margin, granting a second term for the incumbent Modi government.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After the 2024 Indian general election, Modi became the prime minister for the third consecutive time, leading a coalition government after the BJP lost its majority, only the second to do so after the first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

List of prime ministers of India

Key

• No.: Incumbent number
• Template:Note label Assassinated or died in office
• Template:Note label Returned to office after a previous non-consecutive term
• Template:Note label Resigned
• Template:Note label Resigned following a no-confidence motion
• Template:Note label Dismissed by the Head of State

Portrait	Name (bornTemplate:Spaced ndashdied) Constituency	Age when assumed office	Term of office Template:Smaller			Election	Concurrent ministerial positions	Party		Ministry	Head of State Template:Small
	Jawaharlal Nehru Template:Small Template:Small	57 years 274 days	15 August 1947	Template:Small 1964Template:Ref label	16 years 286 days	Template:Ndash	Template:Bulleted list	Template:Full party name with color	Nehru I	Template:Small
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						1951–52			Nehru II
						1957			Nehru III
						1962		Nehru IV	Template:Small
	Gulzarilal Nanda Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1964	Template:Small 1964Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Ndash	Template:Bulleted list	Nanda I
	Lal Bahadur Shastri Template:Small	59 years 251 days	Template:Small 1964	Template:Small 1966Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Ndash	Template:Bulleted list	Shastri
	Gulzarilal Nanda Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1966	Template:Small 1966Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Ndash	Template:Bulleted list	Nanda II
	Indira Gandhi Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1966	Template:Small 1977Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Ndash	Template:Bulleted list	Indira I
						1967		Indira II	Template:Small
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						1971		Template:Full party name with color		Indira III
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	Morarji Desai Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1977	Template:Small 1979Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	1977	Template:Bulleted list		Template:Full party name with color	Desai
								Template:Small
	Charan Singh Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1979	Template:Small 1980Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Ndash	None		Template:Full party name with color	Charan
	Indira Gandhi Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1980Template:Ref label	Template:Small 1984Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	1980	Template:Bulleted list		Template:Full party name with color	Indira IV
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	Rajiv Gandhi Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1984	Template:Small 1989Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Ndash	Template:Bulleted list	Rajiv I
						1984		Rajiv II	Template:Small
	V. P. Singh Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1989	Template:Small 1990Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	1989	Template:Bulleted list	Template:Full party name with color		Vishwanath
	Chandra Shekhar Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1990	Template:Small 1991Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Ndash	Template:Bulleted list	Template:Full party name with color		Chandra Shekhar
	P. V. Narasimha Rao Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1991	Template:Small 1996Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	1991	Template:Bulleted list	Template:Full party name with color		Rao
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	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1996	Template:Small 1996Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	1996	Template:Bulleted list		Template:Full party name with color	Vajpayee I
	H. D. Deve Gowda Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1996	Template:Small 1997Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Ndash	Template:Bulleted list		Template:Full party name with color Template:Small	Deve Gowda
	Inder Kumar Gujral Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1997	Template:Small 1998Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Ndash	Template:Bulleted list		Gujral
								Template:Small
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 1998Template:Ref label	Template:Small 2004Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	1998	Template:Bulleted list		Template:Full party name with color Template:Small	Vajpayee II
						1999			Vajpayee III
								Template:Small
	Manmohan Singh Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 2004	Template:Small 2014Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	2004	Template:Bulleted list		Template:Full party name with color Template:Small	Manmohan I
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						2009			Manmohan II
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	Narendra Modi Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Small 2014	Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	2014	Template:Bulleted list		Template:Full party name with color Template:Small	Modi I
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						2019			Modi II
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						2024			Modi III

List of prime ministers by length of term

Name	Party		Length of term
			Longest continuous term	Total years of premiership
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	INC	16 years, 286 days	16 years, 286 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	INC/INC(I)/INC(R)	11 years, 59 days	15 years, 350 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color" |	BJP	Template:Age in years and days	Template:Age in years and days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	INC	10 years, 4 days	10 years, 4 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	BJP	6 years, 64 days	6 years, 80 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	INC(I)	5 years, 32 days	5 years, 32 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	INC(I)	4 years, 330 days	4 years, 330 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	JP	2 years, 126 days	2 years, 126 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	INC	1 year, 216 days	1 year, 216 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	JD	343 days	343 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	JD	332 days	332 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	JD	324 days	324 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	SJP(R)	223 days	223 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	JP(S)	170 days	170 days
Template:Sortname	style="background-color:Template:Party color"|	INC	13 days	26 days

Timeline

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List by party

Political parties by total timespan of their member holding PMO (as of Template:Date)

Template:Tooltip	Political party	Number of Prime ministers	Total years of holding PMO
1	INC/INC(I)/INC(R)	7Template:Efn	54 years, 166 days
2	BJP	2	Template:Age in years and days
3	JD	3	2 years, 269 days
4	JP	1	2 years, 126 days
5	SJP(R)	1	223 days
6	JP(S)	1	170 days

Parties by total duration (in years) of holding Prime Minister's Office

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See also

• Prime minister of India
• President of India
• Vice President of India
• List of presidents of India
• List of vice presidents of India
• List of deputy prime ministers of India
• List of prime ministers of India by previous experience
• List of heads of state and government of Indian origin

Footnotes

• Template:Note label Assassinated or died in office
• Template:Note label Returned to office after a previous non-consecutive term
• Template:Note label Resigned
• Template:Note label Resigned following a no-confidence motion

External links

• Prime Minister of India