List of Prime Ministers of India

Gandhis second stint as Prime Minister ended ve years

Narendra Modi is the current (14th) Prime Minister of India, was succeeded by Congressman Manmohan Singh, the
since 26 May 2014.
The Prime Minister of India is the chief executive of the 2014.
Government of India. In Indias parliamentary system,
the Constitution names the President as head of state de The incumbent Prime Minister of India is Narendra Modi
jure, but his or her de facto executive powers are vested who has headed the BJP-led NDA government since 26
in the Prime Minister and his Council of Ministers. Ap- May 2014 which is Indias [2]
pointed and sworn-in by the President, the Prime Minis-
ter is usually the leader of the party or alliance that has
a majority in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indias
Parliament.
Since 1947, India has had fourteen Prime Ministers,
fteen including Gulzarilal Nanda who twice acted in
the role. The rst was Jawaharlal Nehru of the Indian
National Congress party, who was sworn-in on 15 Au-
gust 1947, when India gained independence from the
British. Serving until his death in May 1964, Nehru re-
mains Indias longest-serving prime minister. He was
succeeded by fellow Congressman Lal Bahadur Shas-
tri, whose 19-month term also ended in death. Indira
Gandhi, Nehrus daughter, succeeded Shastri in 1966 to
become the countrys rst woman premier. Eleven years
later, she was voted out of power in favour of the Janata
Party, whose leader Morarji Desai became the rst non-
Congress prime minister. After he resigned in 1979,
his former deputy Charan Singh briey held oce un-
til Indira Gandhi was voted back six months later. Indira
later on the morning of 31 October 1984, when she was
gunned down by her own bodyguards. That evening, her
son Rajiv Gandhi was sworn-in as Indias youngest pre-
mier, and the third from his family. Thus far, members
of NehruGandhi dynasty have been Prime Minister for
a total of 37 years and 303 days.[1]
Rajivs ve-year term ended with his former cabinet col-
league, V. P. Singh of the Janata Dal, forming the year-
long National Front coalition government in 1989. A six-
month interlude under Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar
followed, after which the Congress party returned to
power, forming the government under P. V. Narasimha
Rao in June 1991. Raos ve-year term was succeeded
by four short-lived governmentsthe Bharatiya Janata
Party's Atal Bihari Vajpayee for 13 days in 1996, a year
each under United Front prime ministers H. D. Deve
Gowda and I. K. Gujral, and Vajpayee again for 19
months in 199899. After Vajpayee was sworn-in for
the third time, in 1999, he managed to lead his National
Democratic Alliance (NDA) government to a full ve-
year term, the rst non-Congressman to do so. Vajpayee
rst Sikh premier, whose United Progressive Alliance
government was in oce for 10 years between 2004 and
rst non-Congress single party
majority government.
1 Key
2 Prime Ministers of India
3 See also
Prime Ministers Oce
List of Prime Ministers of India by longevity
List of Presidents of India
4 References
[1] In India, next generation of Gandhi dynasty. Washing-

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