Prime Ministers of India[edit]

№	Name (birth–death); constituency	Portrait	Prior Office	Party (Alliance)	Term of office[4]			Elections (Lok Sabha)	Council of Ministers	Appointed by
1	Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur		Indian freedom fighter	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
–	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)		Union Minister of Labour and Employment	Indian National Congress	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days	– (3rd)	(acting)	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2	Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad		Minister of Home Affairs	Indian National Congress	9 June 1964	11 January 1966[†]	1 year, 216 days	– (3rd)	Shastri
–	Gulzarilal Nanda		Minister of Home Affairs	Indian National Congress	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days	– (3rd)	(acting)
3	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli		Minister of Information and Broadcasting	Indian National Congress	24 January 1966	24 March 1977	11 years, 59 days	– (3rd)	I. Gandhi I
			Prime Minister (Re-elected)					1967 (4th)
			Prime Minister (Re-elected)					1971 (5th)	I. Gandhi II	V. V. Giri
4	Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat		Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of India before he resigned in 1969	Janata Party	24 March 1977	28 July 1979[RES]	2 years, 126 days	1977 (6th)	Desai	B. D. Jatti
5	Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat		Minister of Finance	Janata Party (Secular) with INC	28 July 1979	14 January 1980[RES]	170 days	– (6th)	C. Singh	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
(3)	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Medak		Former Prime Minister	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		MP for Amethi	Indian National Congress (I)	31 October 1984	2 December 1989	5 years, 32 days	– (7th)	R. Gandhi	Zail Singh
			MP for Amethi					1984 (8th)
7	V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur		Minister of Defence	Janata Dal (National Front)	2 December 1989	10 November 1990[NC]	343 days	1989 (9th)	V. P. Singh	R. Venkataraman
8	Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia		Member of Parliament	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		Minister of External Affairs	Indian National Congress (I)	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years, 330 days	1991 (10th)	Rao
10	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924) MP for Lucknow		Minister of External Affairs	Bharatiya Janata Party	16 May 1996	1 June 1996[RES]	16 days	1996 (11th)	Vajpayee I	Shankar Dayal Sharma
11	H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Karnataka		Chief Minister of Karnataka	Janata Dal (United Front)	1 June 1996	21 April 1997[RES]	324 days	– (11th)	Deve Gowda
12	Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Bihar		Minister of External Affairs	Janata Dal (United Front)	21 April 1997	19 March 1998	332 days	– (11th)	Gujral
(10)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924) MP for Lucknow		Former Prime Minister (Re-elected)	Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	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) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Assam		Minister of Finance	Indian National Congress (UPA)	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 Pranab Mukherjee
14	Narendra Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi		Chief Minister of Gujarat	Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	26 May 2014[5]	Incumbent	2 years, 266 days	2014 (16th)	Modi	Pranab Mukherje