Name

(birthdeath); constituency

Jawaharlal Nehru
1

(18891964)
MP for Phulpur

Portrait

Elections

Party

Term of office[2]

(Alliance)

16 years
Indian National

15 August

27 May

Congress

1947

1964[]

286 day
s

Gulzarilal Nanda

Indian National

27 May

9 June

(18981998)

Congress

1964

1964

MP for Sabarkantha

(Lok Sabha

13 days

Council
of
Minister

Appointed by

Nehru I

1952 (1st)

Nehru II

1957(2nd)

Nehru III

1962 (3rd)

Nehru IV

(3rd)

(acting)

Lord
Mountbatten

Rajendra
Prasad

Sarvepalli
Radhakrishna
n

Lal Bahadur Shastri

2

(190466)
MP for Allahabad

Gulzarilal Nanda
-

(18981998)
MP for Sabarkantha

Indian National

9 June

11 January

Congress

1964

1966[]

Indian National
Congress

11
January

1966

24 January

1966

1 year,
216 day

(3rd)

Shastri

(3rd)

(acting)

13 days

(3rd)
Indira Gandhi
3

(191784)
MP for Rae Bareli

Indian National
Congress

24
January

1966

I. Gandhi I
24 March

11 years,

1977

59 days

1967 (4th)

1971 (5th)

I. Gandhi II

V. V. Giri

Morarji Desai
4

(18961995)

Janata Party

MP for Surat

Charan Singh

Janata Party

(190287)

(Secular)

MP for Baghpat

with INC

24 March

28 July

1977

1979[RES]

28 July

14 January

1979

1980

[RES]

2 years,
126 day

1977 (6th)

Desai

(6th)

C. Singh

B. D. Jatti

170
days

Neelam
Sanjiva Reddy
Indira Gandhi
(3)

(191784)
MP for Medak

Rajiv Gandhi

Indian National
Congress (I)

Indian National

14
January

1980[]

31

31 October

1984

[]

4 years,
291 day

1980 (7th)

5 years,

(7th)

I. Gandhi
III

R. Gandhi

Zail Singh

(194491)
MP for Amethi

Congress (I)

October

December

1984

1989

32 days

1984 (8th)

R.
V. P. Singh
7

(19312008)
MP for Fatehpur

Janata Dal

Decembe

(National Front)

1989

Venkataraman

10
November

1990

[NC]

343
days

Chandra Shekhar

Samajwadi Janata

10

21 June

223

(19272007)

Party

Novembe

1991

days

MP for Ballia

with INC

1990

1989 (9th)

V. P. Singh

(9th)

Chandra
Shekhar

P. V. Narasimha Rao
9

(19212004)
MP for Nandyal

Indian National

21 June

16 May

Congress (I)

1991

1996

4 years,
330 day
s

1991(10th
)

Rao

Shankar Dayal
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
10

Bharatiya Janata

16 May

1 June

Party

1996

1996[RES]

H. D. Deve Gowda

Janata Dal

1 June

21 April

(born 1933)

(United Front)

1996

(born 1924)
MP for Lucknow

11

Sharma

MP (Rajya Sabha)
for Karnataka

1997

[RES]

13 days

1996(11th)

Vajpayee I

324

(11th)

Deve

days

Gowda

I. K. Gujral
12

(19192012)
MP (Rajya Sabha) for Bihar

Janata Dal

21 April

19 March

332

(United Front)

1997

1998

days

(11th)

1998(12th
(10
)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Bharatiya Janata

(born 1924)

Party

MP for Lucknow

(NDA)

13

Indian National

(born 1932)

Congress

MP (Rajya Sabha) for Assam

(UPA)

Vajpayee II

19 March

22 May

6 years,

K. R.

1998

2004

64 days

Narayanan

[]

1999(13th

Vajpayee

III

2004(14th
Manmohan Singh

Gujral

)
22 May

26 May

10 years

2004

2014

, 4 days
2009(15th
)

M. Singh I

M. Singh II

A. P. J. Abdul
Kalam

Pratibha Patil

14

Narendra Modi

Bharatiya Janata

(born 1950)

Party

MP for Varanasi

(NDA)

26 May

Incumben

2014[3]

1 year,
100 day
s

2014(16th
)

N. Modi

Pranab
Mukherjee