Tag: Prime Ministers of india

The Prime Minister of India is considered the top person in the government of India. However, President is the constitutional head, Prime Minister and the council of ministers are vested with the power to design the policies of the Government of India.Below is the list of Prime Ministers from 1947 to 2022 and their tenure in chronological order. No.NameTerm of OfficeImportance1Jawaharlal Nehru (INC)1947 - 1964First PM died in office.Gulzarilal Nanda (INC)1964First acting PM2Lal Bahadur Shastri (INC)1964 - 1966Died the next day of Tashkent Agreement on 10 Jan 1966Gulzarilal Nanda (INC)1966As acting PM3Indira Gandhi (INC)1966 - 1977First women PM, National Emergency declared in 19754Morarji Desai (Janata Party)1977 - 1979First non-congress PM5Charan Singh (Janata Party Secular)1979 - 1980Indira Gandhi (INC)1980 - 1984Assassinated in New Delhi by two of her own bodyguards6Rajiv Gandhi (INC)1984 - 19897Vishwanath Pratap Singh (Janata Dal)1989 - 19908Chandra Shekhar (Samajwadi Janata Party)1990 - 19919P. V. Narasimha Rao (INC)1991 - 1996Rao Manmohan Model / 8th 5 year plan10Atal Bihari Vajpayee (BJP)1996 (16days)11H. D. Deve Gowda (Janata Dal)1996 - 199712Inder Kumar Gujral (Janata Dal)1997 - 1998Atal Bihari Vajpayee (BJP)1998 - 20041999 - 2004 first BJP full term government13Manmohan Singh (INC)2004 - 201414Narendra Modi (BJP)2014 - Present