INDIA'S PRIME MINISTERS

Prime Ministers of India[edit]

№	Name (birth–death); constituency	Portrait	Prior Office	Party (Alliance)		Elected constituency	Term of office[4]			Elections (Lok Sabha)	Ministry	Appointed by
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
										1952 (1st)	Nehru II	Rajendra Prasad
										1957 (2nd)	Nehru III
										1962 (3rd)	Nehru IV
–	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898–1998)		Union Minister of Labour and Employment		Indian National Congress	Sabarkantha, Gujarat	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days	(3rd)	(acting)	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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
–	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898–1998)		Minister of Home Affairs		Indian National Congress	Sabarkantha, Gujarat	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days	(3rd)	(acting)
3	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)		Minister of Information and Broadcasting		Indian National Congress	Rajya SabhaMP for Uttar Pradesh	24 January 1966	24 March 1977	11 years, 59 days	(3rd)	I. Gandhi I
			Prime Minister (Re-elected)			Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh				1967 (4th)
			Prime Minister (Re-elected)							1971 (5th)	I. Gandhi II	V. V. Giri
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)
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
(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
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
			Former Prime Minister (Re-elected)							1984 (8th)
7	V. P. 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
8	Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007)		MP for Ballia		Samajwadi Janata Party with INC	Ballia, Uttar Pradesh	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	223 days	(9th)	Chandra Shekhar
9	P. V. 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
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
11	H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933)		Chief Minister of Karnataka		Janata Dal (United Front)	Rajya SabhaMP for Karnataka	1 June 1996	21 April 1997[RES]	324 days	(11th)	Deve Gowda
12	Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012)		Minister of External Affairs		Janata Dal (United Front)	Rajya SabhaMP for Bihar	21 April 1997	19 March 1998	332 days	(11th)	Gujral
(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
			Former Prime Minister (Re-elected)							1999(13th)	Vajpayee III
13	Manmohan Singh (born 1932)		Minister of Finance		Indian National Congress (UPA)	Rajya SabhaMP for Assam	22 May 2004	26 May 2014	10 years, 4 days	2004(14th)	M. Singh I	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
			Former Prime Minister (Re-elected)							2009(15th)	M. Singh II	Pratibha Patil
14	Narendra Modi (born 1950)		Chief Minister of Gujarat		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh	26 May 2014[5]	Incumbent	3 years, 83 days	2014(16th)	Modi	Pranab Mukherjee