List of prime ministers of India

The prime minister of India, is the chief executive of the government of India. The prime minister leads the executive branch and chairs the Council of Ministers.

Narendra Damodar Das Modi is the current prime minister of India, since 26 May 2014.

Since the Independence of India, India has had fifteen prime ministers. The first was Jawaharlal Nehru of the Indian National Congress party.

The current prime minister is Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2014.

Key

• №: Incumbent number
• ^† Assassinated or died in office
• ^§ Returned to office after a previous term
• ^RES Resigned
• ^NC Resigned following a no-confidence motion

Prime ministers

No	Name (birth–death); constituency	Portrait	Party (Alliance)	Term of office			Elections (Lok Sabha)	Council of Ministers	Appointed by
1	Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur		Indian National Congress	15 August 1947	27 May 1964	16 years, 286 days	—	Nehru I	Lord Mountbatten
							1952 (1st)	Nehru II	Rajendra Prasad
							1957 (2nd)	Nehru III
							1962 (3rd)	Nehru IV
-	Ghulzarilal Nanda (1898-1998)		IndianNationalCongress	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days	-( 3rd )	Nanda	Rajendra Prasad
2	Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad		Indian National Congress	9 June 1964	11 January 1966	1 year, 216 days	– (3rd)	Shastri	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
(-)	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898-1998)		Indian National Congress	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days	- (3rd)	Nanda II
3	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli		Indian National Congress	24 January 1966	24 March 1977	11 years, 59 days	– (3rd)	I. Gandhi I
							1967 (4th)
							1971 (5th)	I. Gandhi II	V. V. Giri
4	Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat		Janata Party	24 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 126 days	1977 (6th)	Desai	B. D. Jatti
5	Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat		Janata Party (Secular) with INC	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	– (6th)	C. Singh	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
(3)	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Medak		Indian National Congress (I)	14 January 1980	31 October 1984	4 years, 291 days	1980 (7th)	I. Gandhi III
6	Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi		Indian National Congress (I)	31 October 1984	2 December 1989	5 years, 32 days	– (7th)	R. Gandhi	Zail Singh
							1984 (8th)
7	V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur		Janata Dal (National Front)	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	1989 (9th)	V. P. Singh	R. Venkataraman
8	Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia		Samajwadi Janata Party with INC	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	223 days	– (9th)	Chandra Shekhar
9	P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal		Indian National Congress (I)	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years, 330 days	1991 (10th)	Rao
10	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow		Bharatiya Janata Party	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	13 days	1996 (11th)	Vajpayee I	Shankar Dayal Sharma
11	H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Karnataka		Janata Dal (United Front)	1 June 1996	21 April 1997	324 days	– (11th)	Deve Gowda
12	I. K. Gujral (1919–2012) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Bihar		Janata Dal (United Front)	21 April 1997	19 March 1998	332 days	– (11th)	Gujral
(10)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	19 March 1998	22 May 2004	6 years, 64 days	1998 (12th)	Vajpayee II	K. R. Narayanan
							1999 (13th)	Vajpayee III
13	Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Assam		Indian National Congress (UPA)	22 May 2004	26 May 2014	10 years, 4 days	2004 (14th)	M. Singh I	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
							2009 (15th)	M. Singh II	Pratibha Patil
14	Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	26 May 2014	Incumbent	8 years, 100 days	2014 (16th)	N. Modi I	Pranab Mukherjee
							2019 (17th)	N. Modi II	Ram Nath Kovind