List of All Prime Ministers of India

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25/12/2014

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According to India’s parliamentary system, the honourable President is head of the state in law but in practice, President’s executive powers are vested in the Prime Minister as well as the Council of Ministers. The party gets majority in Lok Sabha , usually makes pre-selected person as Prime Minister.

  Since 1947, 15 Prime Ministers served the nation officially, though controversial , details has been given below.

1. Jawaharlal Nehru ( 15 Aug, 1947 – 27 May, 1964)

 Image : Jawaharlal Nehru 

1^st Prime Minister of India

Duration : 16 years, 286 days

MP from : Phulpur

Party : INC( Indian National Congress)
Appointed by : Lord Mountbatten & Dr. Rajendra Prasad
( President)

 2. Gulzarilal Nanda (27 May, 1964 – 9 June, 1964)

 Image : Gulzarilal Nanda 

2^nd Prime Minister of India

Duration : 13 days

MP from : Sabarkantha

Party : INC

Appointed by (President): Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

3. Lal Bahadur Shastri ( 9 June, 1964 –11 Jan, 1966)

 Image : Lal Bahadur Sastri 

3^rd Prime Minister of India

Duration : 1 year, 216 days

MP from : Allahabad

Party : INC
Appointed by (President): Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

        

  4. Gulzarilal Nanda (11 Jan, 1966 – 24 Jan, 1966)

Image : Gulzarilal Nanda

2^nd Prime Minister of India

Duration : 13 days

MP from : Sabarkantha

Party : INC
Appointed by (President): Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

5. Indira Gandhi (24 Jan, 1966 – 24 Mar, 1977)

Image : Indira Gandhi 

4^th Prime Minister of India

Duration : 11 years, 59 days

MP from : Rae Bareli

Party : INC
Appointed by (President): Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan & V. V. Giri

 6.  Morarji Desai (24 Mar, 1977 – 28 July, 1979)

Image : Morarji Desai 

    5^th Prime Minister of India

Duration : 2 years, 126 days

MP from : Surat

Party : Janata Party
Appointed by (President): B. D. Jatti

7. Charan Singh ( 28 July, 1979 – 14 Jan, 1980)

Image : Charan Singh

    6^th Prime Minister of India

Duration : 13 days

MP from : Sabarkantha

Party : Janata Party (Secular)

Appointed by (President): Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

8. Indira Gandhi ( 14 Jan, 1980 – 31 Oct, 1984)

 

Image : Indira Gandhi

    4^th Prime Minister of India

Duration : 4 years, 291 days

MP from : Medak

Party : INC (I)

Appointed by (President): Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

9. Rajiv Gandhi ( 31 Oct, 1984 – 2 Dec, 1989)

 

Image : Rajiv Gandhi

    7^th  Prime Minister of India

Duration : 5 years, 32 days

MP from : Amethi

Party : INC (I)

Appointed by (President): Zail Singh

10. Vishwanath Pratap Singh ( 2 Dec, 1989 – 10 Nov, 1990)

 

Image : V. P. Singh

    8^th Prime Minister of India

Duration : 343 days

MP from : Fatehpur

Party : Janata Dal ( National Front )
Appointed by (President): R. Venkataraman

11.  Chandra Shekhar (10 Nov, 1990 – 21 June, 1991)

 

Image : Chandra Shekhar

    9^th  Prime Minister of India

Duration : 223 days

MP from : Ballia

Party : Samajwadi Janata Party

Appointed by (President): R. Venkataraman

12. P. V. Narasimha Rao ( 21 June, 1991 – 16 May 1996)

Image : P. V. Narasimha Rao

    10^th  Prime Minister of India

Duration : 4 years, 330 days

MP from : Nandyal

Party : INC (I)
Appointed by (President): R. Venkataraman

13. Atal Bihari Vajpayee ( 16 May, 1996 – 1 June, 1996)

Image : Atal Bihari Vajpayee

    11^th Prime Minister of India

Duration : 13 days

MP from : Lucknow

Party : Bharatiya Janata Party
Appointed by (President): Shankar Dayal Sharma

14. H. D. Deve Gowda ( 1 June, 1996 – 21 Apr, 1997)

Image : H. D. Deve Gowra

    12^th Prime Minister of India

Duration : 324 days

MP from : (Rajya Sabha) for Karnataka

Party : Janata Dal( United Front)

Appointed by (President): Shankar Dayal Sharma

15. I. K. Gujral ( 21 Apr, 1997 – 19 Mar, 1998)

Image : I. K. Gujral

    13^th Prime Minister of India

Duration : 332 days

MP from : (Rajya Sabha) for Bihar

Party : Janata Dal( United Front)

Appointed by (President): Shankar Dayal Sharma

16. Atal Bihari Vajpayee ( 19 Mar, 1998 – 22 May, 2004)

Image : Atal Bihari Vajpayee

    11^th  Prime Minister of India

Duration : 6 years, 64 days

MP from : Lucknow

Party : Bharatiya Janata Party( NDA)

Appointed by (President): K. R. Narayanan

17. Manmohan Singh ( 22 May, 2004 – 26 May, 2014)

Image : Manmohan Singh

    14^th  Prime Minister of India

Duration : 10 years,  4 days

MP from : (Rajya Sabha) from Assam

Party : INC (UPA)
Appointed by (President): A. P. J. Abdul Kalam & Prativa Patil

18. Narendra Modi ( 24 May, 2014 – Incumbent)

Image : Narendra Modi

    15^th Prime Minister of India

Duration : N/A

MP from : Varanasi

Party : Bharatiya Janata Party( NDA)

Appointed by (President): Pranab Mukherjee

Last Word : In this article, it has only been discussed the list of Prime Ministers with some mandatory points along with contemporary Presidents. However the collapse of Government, re-election etc. past incidents and causes have not been described in detail. 

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