Prime Ministers[edit]

Name

(birthdeath);

Portrait

Party

[2]

Term of office

(Alliance)

Elections
(Lok Sabha)

constituency

Jawaharlal
1

Nehru
(18891964)

Indian
National
Congress

15 August

27 May

1947

1964[]

Council
of

Ap

Ministers

Nehru I

1952 (1st)

Nehru II

1957(2nd)

Nehru III

1962 (3rd)

Nehru IV

(3rd)

(acting)

16 years,286 days

MP for Phulpur

Gulzarilal
2

Nanda

Indian

(18981998)

National

MP

Congress

27 May

9 June

1964

1964

13 days

for Sabarkantha

Ra
Lal Bahadur
3

Shastri

Indian

(190466)

National

MP

Congress

for Allahabad

9 June

11 January

1964

1966[]

1 year,216 days

(3rd)

Shastri

Gulzarilal
(2)

Nanda

Indian

11

(18981998)

National

January

MP

Congress

1966

24 January

1966

13 days

(3rd)

(acting)

for Sabarkantha

(3rd)
Indira Gandhi
4

(191784)
MP for Rae

Indian

24

National

January

Congress

1966

I. Gandhi I
24 March

1977

11 years,59 days 1967 (4th)

Bareli

1971 (5th) I. Gandhi II

Morarji Desai
5

(18961995)

Janata

24 March

28 July

Party

1977

1979[RES]

2 years,126 days 1977 (6th)

Desai

MP for Surat

Charan

Janata

Singh

Party

28 July

14 January

(190287)

(Secular)

1979

1980[RES]

MP for Baghpat

with INC

170 days

(6th)

C. Singh

Sa

Indira Gandhi
(4)

(191784)
MP for Medak

Indian
National
Congress
(I)

14
31 October
January

1980[]

[]

1984

4 years,291 days 1980 (7th)

I. Gandhi
III

(7th)
Rajiv Gandhi
7

(194491)
MP for Amethi

V. P. Singh
8

(19312008)
MP

Indian
National
Congress
(I)

Janata Dal
(National
Front)

31
2 December
October

1984

1989

R. Gandhi

1984 (8th)

10

December November

1989

5 years,32 days

343 days

1989 (9th) V. P. Singh

[NC]

1990

for Fatehpur

Chandra

Samajwadi

Shekhar

Janata

(19272007)

Party

MP for Ballia

with INC

P. V.
Narasimha
10

Rao
(19212004)
MP for Nandyal

10
21 June
November

1990

1991

223 days

(9th)

Chandra
Shekhar

Indian
National

21 June

16 May

Congress

1991

1996

(I)

4 years,330 days 1991(10th)

Rao

Ve

Atal Bihari
11

Vajpayee

Bharatiya

(born 1924)

Janata

MP

Party

16 May

1 June

1996

1996[RES]

1 June

21 April

13 days

1996(11th) Vajpayee I

for Lucknow

H. D. Deve
Gowda
12

(born 1933)
MP (Rajya

Janata Dal
(United

1996

[RES]

1997

324 days

(11th)

Deve

Sh

Gowda

Front)

Sabha)
for Karnataka

I. K. Gujral
13

(19192012)

Janata Dal

MP (Rajya

(United

Sabha)

Front)

21 April

19 March

1997

1998

332 days

(11th)

Gujral

for Bihar

Atal Bihari
Vajpayee
(11)

(born 1924)
MP

1998(12th) Vajpayee II
Bharatiya
Janata
Party

19 March
[]

1998

22 May

2004

6 years,64 days
1999(13th)

(NDA)

Manmohan

Indian

Singh

National

III

for Lucknow

14

Vajpayee

22 May

26 May

2004

2014

10 years,4 days

2004(14th) M. Singh I

A.

(born 1932)

Congress

MP (Rajya

(UPA)

2009(15th) M. Singh II

Sabha)

Pr

for Assam

Narendra
Modi
15

(born 1950)
MP
for Varanasi

Timeline[edit]

Bharatiya
Janata

26 May

Party

2014

(NDA)

Incumbent 0 years,193 days 2014(16th)

Modi