List of Prime Ministers of India
Prime Ministers of India
Timeline

List of Prime Ministers of India

Section Title: Prime Ministers of India
Table Section Text: Timeline

No.	Name	Portrait	Party (Alliance)	Elected constituency	Term of office	Appointed by	Lok Sabha

1	Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian National Congress	Phulpur, Uttar Pradesh	15 August 1947	15 April 1952	16 years, 286 days	Lord Mountbatten	Constituent Assembly

15 April 1952	17 April 1957	Rajendra Prasad	1st

17 April 1957	2 April 1962	2nd

2 April 1962	27 May 1964	3rd

–	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898–1998)	Gulzarilal Nanda	Indian National Congress	Sabarkantha, Gujarat	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

2	Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966)	Lal Bahadur Shastri	Indian National Congress	Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh	9 June 1964	11 January 1966	1 year, 216 days

–	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898–1998)	Gulzarilal Nanda	Indian National Congress	Sabarkantha, Gujarat	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days

3	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress	Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	24 January 1966	4 March 1967	11 years, 59 days

Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh	4 March 1967	15 March 1971	V. V. Giri	4th

15 March 1971	24 March 1977	5th

4	Morarji Desai (1896–1995)	Morarji Desai	Janata Party	Surat, Gujarat	24 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 126 days	B. D. Jatti	6th

5	Charan Singh (1902–1987)	Charan Singh	Janata Party (Secular) with INC	Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

(3)	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress (I)	Medak, Andhra Pradesh	14 January 1980	31 October 1984	4 years, 291 days	7th

6	Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991)	Rajiv Gandhi	Indian National Congress (I)	Amethi, Uttar Pradesh	31 October 1984	31 December 1984	5 years, 32 days	Zail Singh

31 December 1984	2 December 1989	8th

7	Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008)	V.P. Singh	Janata Dal (National Front)	Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	R. Venkataraman	9th

8	Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007)	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party with INC	Ballia, Uttar Pradesh	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	223 days

9	P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004)	P.V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress (I)	Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years, 330 days	10th

10	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma	11th

11	H. D. Deve Gowda (1933–)	H.D. Deve Gowda	Janata Dal (United Front)	Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka	1 June 1996	21 April 1997	324 days

12	Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012)	I.K. Gujral	Janata Dal (United Front)	Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar	21 April 1997	19 March 1998	332 days

(10)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924-2018)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh	19 March 1998	10 October 1999	6 years, 64 days	K. R. Narayanan	12th

10 October 1999	22 May 2004	13th

13	Manmohan Singh (1932–)	Manmohan Singh	Indian National Congress (UPA)	Rajya Sabha MP for Assam	22 May 2004	22 May 2009	10 years, 4 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	14th

22 May 2009	26 May 2014	Pratibha Patil	15th

14	Narendra Modi (1950–)	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh	26 May 2014	Incumbent	4 years, 332 days	Pranab Mukherjee	16th

Sentence(s)

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India.

final_sentence: Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India.