Context: The First Ministry of Manmohan Singh was the first Union Council of Ministers of India under the Prime Ministership of Dr. Manmohan Singh. It was formed after the Indian general election, 2004 held in four phases during 20 April - 10 May 2004, to elect the 14th Lok Sabha, and it functioned from 2004 to May 2009. After which Singh took the oath as the Prime Minister of India on 22 May 2004, and continued to hold the post till full term, the next Council of Ministers of the Republic of India was sworn in on 22 May 2009, when Singh started his second term in office as PM., The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the Lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the Upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the President on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the Sansad Bhavan in New Delhi., Legislative elections were held in India in four phases between April 20 and May 10 , 2004 . Over 670 million people were eligible to vote , electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha . The Lok Sabha , or `` House of the People , '' is the directly elected lower house of the Parliament of India . On May 13 , the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and its alliance National Democratic Alliance conceded defeat . The Indian National Congress , which had governed India for all but five years from independence until 1996 , returned to power after a record eight years out of office . It was able to put together a comfortable majority of more than 335 members out of 543 with the help of its allies . The 335 members included both the Congress - led United Progressive Alliance , the governing coalition formed after the election , as well as external support from the Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP ) , Samajwadi Party ( SP ) , Kerala Congress ( KC ) and the Left Front . ( External support is support from parties that are not part of the governing coalition ) . Congress President Sonia Gandhi surprised observers by declining to become the new prime minister , instead asking former Finance Minister Manmohan Singh , a respected economist , to head the new government . Singh had previously served in the Congress government of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao in the early 1990s , where he was seen as one of the architects of India 's first economic liberalisation plan , which staved off an impending national monetary crisis . Despite the fact that Singh had never won a Lok Sabha seat , his considerable goodwill and Sonia Gandhi 's nomination won him the support of the UPA allies and the Left Front . Seven states also held assembly elections to elect state governments along with the parliamentary elections ., The President of the Republic of India is the Head of State of India and the Commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces., The 14th Lok Sabha (17 May 2004  18 May 2009) was convened after the Indian general election, 2004 held in four phases during 20 April  10 May 2004, which led to the formation of First Manmohan Singh ministry (20042009). The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India., The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. The Parliament is composed of the President of India and the houses. It is bicameral with two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People). The President in his role as head of legislature has full powers to summon and prorogue either house of Parliament or to dissolve Lok Sabha. The president can exercise these powers only upon the advice of the Prime Minister and his Union Council of Ministers., The Rajya Sabha or "Council of States" is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Membership of Rajya Sabha is limited by the Constitution to a maximum of 250 members, and current laws have provision for 245 members. Most of the members of the House are indirectly elected by state and territorial legislatures using single transferable votes, while the President can appoint 12 members for their contributions to art, literature, science, and social services. Members sit for staggered six-year terms, with one third of the members retiring every two years., Subject: indian general election, Relation: office_contested, Options: (A) head of state (B) president (C) prime minister (D) prime minister of india
Output: prime minister of india