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| post = Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
| native_name = {{lang|hi-Latn|Lok Sabhā Sadana ke Netā}}
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| incumbent = [[Narendra Modi]]
| incumbentsince = 26 May 2014
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| formation = May 1952
| first = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<br /> {{small|(1952–1964)}}
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'''Leader of the House in Lok Sabha''' ([[International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration|IAST]]: {{lang|hi-Latn|Lok Sabhā Sadana ke Netā}}) is the [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] by default if she/he is a member of the [[Lok Sabha]]. The Leader of the House serves as the parliamentary chairperson of the majority party in the house. If the Prime Minister is not a member of the Lower House of Parliament, she/he can nominate another minister as the Leader of the House.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/LS/ataglace.htm | title=Lok Sabha | publisher=/legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in | access-date=26 July 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521205101/http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/LS/ataglace.htm | archive-date=21 May 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

== List ==
{| | class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#00f;"
! {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! Name
! Portrait
! Took office
! Left office
|-
| rowspan=3| 1 || rowspan=3| [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] || rowspan=3| [[File:Jnehru.jpg|100px]] || 13 May 1952 || 4 April 1957
|-
| 5 April 1957 || 31 March 1962
|-
| 2 April 1962 || 27 May 1964
|-
| 2 || [[Gulzarilal Nanda]] || [[File:Gulzarilal Nanda stamp (cropped).jpg|100px]] || 27 May 1964 || 9 June 1964
|-
| 3 || [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]] || [[File:Lal Bahadur Shastri (cropped).jpg|100px]] || 9 June 1964 || 11 January 1966
|-
| (2) || [[Gulzarilal Nanda]] || [[File:Gulzarilal Nanda stamp (cropped).jpg|100px]] || 11 January 1966 || 24 January 1966
|-
| 4 || [[Satya Narayan Sinha]] {{ref|Satya Narayan Sinha|[1]}} || || 14 February 1966 || 3 March 1967
|-
| rowspan=2| 5 || rowspan=2| [[Indira Gandhi]] || rowspan=2| [[File:Indira Gandhi 1977.jpg|100px]] || 14 March 1967 || 27 December 1970
|-
| 15 March 1971 || 18 January 1977
|-
| 6 || [[Morarji Desai]] || [[File:Morarji Desai (portrait).png|100px]] || 23 March 1977 || 28 July 1979
|-
| 7 || [[Charan Singh]] || [[File:Charan Singh.jpg|100px]] || 28 July 1979 || 22 August 1979
|-
| (5) || [[Indira Gandhi]] || [[File:Indira Gandhi 1977.jpg|100px]] || 10 January 1980 || 31 October 1984
|-
|rowspan=2| 8 ||rowspan=2| [[Rajiv Gandhi]] || rowspan=2|[[File:Rajiv Gandhi (1987).jpg|100px]] || 31 October 1984 || 31 December 1984
|-
| 31 December 1984 || 27 November 1989
|-
| 9 || [[Vishwanath Pratap Singh]] || [[File:V. P. Singh (cropped).jpg|100px]] || 2 December 1989 || 10 November 1990
|-
| 10 || [[Chandra Shekhar]] || [[File:Chandra Shekhar Singh.jpg|100px]]|| 10 November 1990 || 13 March 1991
|-
| 11 || [[Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)|Arjun Singh]] {{ref|note_2|[Note 2]}}|| [[File:Arjun Singh.jpg|100px]] || 10 July 1991 || 20 November 1991
|-
| 12 || [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]] || [[File:P V Narasimha Rao.png|136x136px]] || 6 December 1991 || 10 May 1996
|-
| 13 || [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] || [[File:Atal Bihari Vajpayee.jpg|100px]] || 16 May 1996 || 01 June 1996
|-
| 14 || [[Ram Vilas Paswan]] {{ref|note_3|[Note 3]}} || [[File:Ram Vilas Paswan (cropped).jpg|100px]] || 11 June 1996 || 4 December 1997
|-
| rowspan=2| (13) || rowspan=2| [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] || rowspan=2| [[File:Atal Bihari Vajpayee.jpg|100px]] || 19 March 1998 || 26 April 1999
|-
| 13 October 1999 || 6 February 2004
|-
| rowspan=2|15 || rowspan=2|[[Pranab Mukherjee]] {{ref|note_4|[Note 4]}} || rowspan=2|[[File:Pranab Mukherjee (cropped).JPG|100px]] || 25 May 2004 || 18 May 2009
|-
| 03 June 2009 || 26 June 2012
|-
| 16 || [[Sushilkumar Shinde]] {{ref|note_4|[Note 4]}} {{ref|note_5|[Note 5]}}|| [[File:Sushilkumar Shinde.jpg|100px]] || 3 August 2012 || 18 May 2014
|-
| 17 || [[Narendra Modi]] || [[File:PM Modi 2015.jpg|100px]] || 26 May 2014 || ''Incumbent''
|-
|}

== Footnotes ==
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:1) {{note|note_1}} During this period, Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]] was member of Rajya Sabha.
:2) {{note|note_2}} During the time gap in between [[Chandra Shekhar]]'s resignation and election of [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]], the leader of the house was [[Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)|Arjun Singh]].
:3) {{note|note_3}} During this period, Prime Ministers [[H. D. Deve Gowda]] and [[Inder Kumar Gujral]] were members of Rajya Sabha.
:4) {{note|note_4}} During this period, Prime Minister [[Manmohan Singh]] was member of Rajya Sabha.
:5) {{note|note_5}} After [[Pranab Mukherjee]] was elected as the President of India, [[Sushilkumar Shinde]] took over as the Leader of House.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sushilkumar-Shinde-takes-over-as-leader-of-the-House-in-Lok-Sabha/articleshow/15339791.cms | title=Sushilkumar Shinde takes over as leader of the House in Lok Sabha | work=[[The Times of India]]| date=3 August 2012 | access-date=7 May 2019}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Speaker of the Lok Sabha]]
*[[Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha]]
*[[Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha]]
*[[Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha]]
*[[Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha]]
*[[Secretary General of the Lok Sabha]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Leaders of the House in the Lok Sabha}}
{{Parliament of India}}

[[Category:Lok Sabha]]
[[Category:Lists of political office-holders in India]]
[[Category:Lists of members of the Lok Sabha]]
[[Category:Leaders of the Lok Sabha]]

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