PRIME MINISTERS OF INDIA

Prime Ministers of India

No.	Portrait	Name (birth–death)	Party (Alliance)		Elected constituency	Term of office			Appointed by	Lok Sabha
1		Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)		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)		Indian National Congress	Sabarkantha, Gujarat	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2		Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966)		Indian National Congress	Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh	9 June 1964	11 January 1966[†]	1 year, 216 days
–		Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898–1998)		Indian National Congress	Sabarkantha, Gujarat	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days
3		Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)		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			4th
						15 March 1971	24 March 1977		V. V. Giri	5th
4		Morarji Desai (1896–1995)		Janata Party	Surat, Gujarat	24 March 1977	28 July 1979[RES]	2 years, 126 days	B. D. Jatti	6th
5		Charan Singh (1902–1987)		Janata Party (Secular) with INC	Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh	28 July 1979	14 January 1980[RES]	170 days	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
(3)		Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)		Indian National Congress (I)	Medak, Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana)	14 January 1980[§]	31 October 1984[†]	4 years, 291 days		7th
6		Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991)		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)		Janata Dal (National Front)	Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh	2 December 1989	10 November 1990[NC]	343 days	R. Venkataraman	9th
8		Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007)		Samajwadi Janata Party with INC	Ballia, Uttar Pradesh	10 November 1990	21 June 1991[c]	223 days
9		P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004)		Indian National Congress (I)	Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years, 330 days		10th
10		Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018)		Bharatiya Janata Party	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh	16 May 1996	1 June 1996[RES]	16 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma	11th
11		H. D. Deve Gowda (1933–)		Janata Dal (United Front)	Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka	1 June 1996	21 April 1997[RES]	324 days
12		Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012)		Janata Dal (United Front)	Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar	21 April 1997	19 March 1998	332 days
(10)		Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018)		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–)		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–)		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	5 years, 270 days	Pranab Mukherjee	16th
						30 May 2019	Incumbent		Ram Nath Kovind	17th