List of Prime Ministers of India

Table columns:
№
Name (birth–death)
Portrait
Prior Office
Party (Alliance)
Party (Alliance).1
Elected constituency
Term of office[4]
Term of office[4].1
Term of office[4].2
Elections (Lok Sabha)
Ministry
Appointed by

Table rows:
cells: 1
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)
Indian freedom fighter
Indian National Congress
Phulpur, Uttar Pradesh
15 August 1947
27 May 1964[†]
16 years, 286 days
—
Nehru I
Lord Mountbatten
cells: 1
1952 (1st)
Nehru II
Rajendra Prasad
cells: 1
1957 (2nd)
Nehru III
cells: 1
1962 (3rd)
Nehru IV
cells: –
Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898–1998)
Minister of Labour and Employment
Indian National Congress
Sabarkantha, Gujarat
27 May 1964
9 June 1964
13 days
(3rd)
(acting)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
cells: 2
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966)
Minister of Home Affairs
Indian National Congress
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
9 June 1964
11 January 1966[†]
1 year, 216 days
(3rd)
Shastri
cells: –
Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898–1998)
Minister of Home Affairs
Indian National Congress
Sabarkantha, Gujarat
11 January 1966
24 January 1966
13 days
(3rd)
(acting)
cells: 3
Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)
Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Indian National Congress
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh
24 January 1966
24 March 1977
11 years, 59 days
(3rd)
I. Gandhi I
cells: 3
Prime Minister (Re-elected)
Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh
1967 (4th)
cells: 3
Prime Minister (Re-elected)
1971 (5th)
I. Gandhi II
V. V. Giri
cells: 4
Morarji Desai (1896–1995)
Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of India before he resigned in 1969
Janata Party
Surat, Gujarat
24 March 1977
28 July 1979[RES]
2 years, 126 days
1977 (6th)
Desai
B. D. Jatti (acting President)
cells: 5
Charan Singh (1902–1987)
Minister of Finance
Janata Party (Secular) with INC
Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh
28 July 1979
14 January 1980[RES]
170 days
– (6th)
C. Singh
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
cells: (3)
Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)
Former Prime Minister
Indian National Congress (I)
Medak, Andhra Pradesh
14 January 1980[§]
31 October 1984[†]
4 years, 291 days
1980 (7th)
I. Gandhi III
cells: 6
Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991)
MP for Amethi
Indian National Congress (I)
Amethi, Uttar Pradesh
31 October 1984
2 December 1989
5 years, 32 days
(7th)
R. Gandhi
Zail Singh
cells: 6
Former Prime Minister (Re-elected)
1984 (8th)
cells: 7
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008)
Minister of Defence
Janata Dal (National Front)
Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh
2 December 1989
10 November 1990[NC]
343 days
1989 (9th)
V. P. Singh
R. Venkataraman
cells: 8
Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007)
MP for Ballia
Samajwadi Janata Party with INC
Ballia, Uttar Pradesh
10 November 1990
21 June 1991[a]
223 days
(9th)
Chandra Shekhar
cells: 9
Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao (1921–2004)
Minister of External Affairs
Indian National Congress (I)
Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh
21 June 1991
16 May 1996
4 years, 330 days
1991 (10th)
Rao
cells: 10
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924)
Minister of External Affairs
Bharatiya Janata Party
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
16 May 1996
1 June 1996[RES]
16 days
1996 (11th)
Vajpayee I
Shankar Dayal Sharma
cells: 11
Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (born 1933)
Chief Minister of Karnataka
Janata Dal (United Front)
Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka
1 June 1996
21 April 1997[RES]
324 days
(11th)
Deve Gowda
cells: 12
Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012)
Minister of External Affairs
Janata Dal (United Front)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar
21 April 1997
19 March 1998
332 days
(11th)
Gujral
cells: (10)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924)
Former Prime Minister
Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
19 March 1998[§]
22 May 2004
6 years, 64 days
1998 (12th)
Vajpayee II
K. R. Narayanan
cells: (10)
Former Prime Minister (Re-elected)
1999 (13th)
Vajpayee III
cells: 13
Manmohan Singh (born 1932)
Minister of Finance
Indian National Congress (UPA)
Rajya Sabha MP for Assam
22 May 2004
26 May 2014
10 years, 4 days
2004 (14th)
M. Singh I
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
cells: 13
Former Prime Minister (Re-elected)
2009 (15th)
M. Singh II
Pratibha Patil
cells: 14
Narendra Modi (born 1950)
Chief Minister of Gujarat
Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
26 May 2014[5]
Incumbent
3 years, 206 days
2014 (16th)
Modi
Pranab Mukherjee

Questions about this table:
originalText: the member of rajya sabha who first became the prime minister was
answer: answerTexts: Indira Gandhi