List of Prime Ministers of India

Narendra Damodar Das Modi is the current Prime Minister of India, since 26 May 2014.

The Prime Minister of India, is the head of government of India, chief adviser to the President of India, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament. The Prime Minister leads the executive branch of the Government of India.

Since the Independence of India, India has had fifteen prime ministers. The first was Jawaharlal Nehru of the Indian National Congress party.

The current prime minister is Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janta Party. He was sworn in on 30 May 2019.

Key

Colour key for party of the prime minister

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• Template:Note label Assassinated or died in office
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Prime Ministers

№	Name Template:Small	Portrait	Party Template:Small	Term of office			Elections Template:Small	Council of Ministers	Appointed by
rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;" | 1	Jawaharlal Nehru Template:Small	File:Jnehru.jpg	Indian National Congress	Template:Small 1947	Template:Small 1964Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	—	[[First Nehru ministry|Template:Small]]	Lord Mountbatten
1952 (1st)							[[Second Nehru ministry|Template:Small]]	Rajendra Prasad
1957 (2nd)							[[Third Nehru ministry|Template:Small]]
1962 (3rd)							[[Fourth Nehru ministry|Template:Small]]
style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;" | 2	Gulzarilal Nanda Template:Small		Indian National Congress	Template:Small 1964	Template:Small 1964	13 days	– (3rd)	Template:Small	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;" | 3	Lal Bahadur Shastri Template:Small		Indian National Congress	Template:Small 1964	Template:Small 1966Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	– (3rd)	[[Lal Bahadur Shastri ministry|Template:Small]]
style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;" | (2)	Gulzarilal Nanda Template:Small		Indian National Congress	Template:Small 1966	Template:Small 1966	13 days	– (3rd)	Template:Small
rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;" | 4	Indira Gandhi Template:Small		Indian National Congress	Template:Small 1966	Template:Small 1977	Template:Age in years and days	– (3rd)	[[First Indira Gandhi ministry|Template:Small]]
1967 (4th)
1971 (5th)							[[Second Indira Gandhi ministry|Template:Small]]	V. V. Giri
style="background:Template:Janata Party/meta/color; color:white;" | 5	Morarji Desai Template:Small		Janata Party	Template:Small 1977	Template:Small 1979Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	1977 (6th)	[[Morarji Desai ministry|Template:Small]]	B. D. Jatti
style="background:Template:Janata Party (Secular)/meta/color; color:white;"| 6	Charan Singh Template:Small		Janata Party (Secular) Template:Small	Template:Small 1979	Template:Small 1980Template:Ref label	Template:Age in days days	– (6th)	[[Charan Singh ministry|Template:Small]]	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;" | (3)	Indira Gandhi Template:Small		Indian National Congress (I)	Template:Small 1980Template:Ref label	Template:Small 1984Template:Ref label	Template:Age in years and days	1980 (7th)	[[Third Indira Gandhi ministry|Template:Small]]
rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;" | 7	Rajiv Gandhi Template:Small		Indian National Congress (I)	Template:Small 1984	Template:Small 1989	Template:Age in years and days	– (7th)	[[Rajiv Gandhi ministry|Template:Small]]	Zail Singh
1984 (8th)
style="background:Template:Janata Dal/meta/color;" | 8	V. P. Singh Template:Small		Janata Dal Template:Small	Template:Small 1989	Template:Small 1990Template:Ref label	Template:Age in days days	1989 (9th)	[[V. P. Singh ministry|Template:Small]]	R. Venkataraman
style="background:Template:Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)/meta/color;" | 9	Chandra Shekhar Template:Small		Samajwadi Janata Party Template:Small	Template:Small 1990	Template:Small 1991	Template:Age in days days	– (9th)	[[Chandra Shekhar ministry|Template:Small]]
style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;" | 10	P. V. Narasimha Rao Template:Small		Indian National Congress (I)	Template:Small 1991	Template:Small 1996	Template:Age in years and days	1991 (10th)	[[P. V. Narasimha Rao ministry|Template:Small]]
style="background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color;" | 11	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Template:Small		Bharatiya Janata Party	Template:Small 1996	Template:Small 1996Template:Ref label	13 days	1996 (11th)	[[First Vajpayee ministry|Template:Small]]	Shankar Dayal Sharma
style="background:Template:Janata Dal/meta/color;" | 12	H. D. Deve Gowda Template:Small		Janata Dal Template:Small	Template:Small 1996	Template:Small 1997Template:Ref label	Template:Age in days days	– (11th)	[[H. D. Deve Gowda ministry|Template:Small]]
style="background:Template:Janata Dal/meta/color;" | 13	I. K. Gujral Template:Small		Janata Dal Template:Small	Template:Small 1997	Template:Small 1998	Template:Age in days days	– (11th)	[[I. K. Gujral ministry|Template:Small]]
rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color;" | (10)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Template:Small		Bharatiya Janata Party Template:Small	Template:Small 1998Template:Ref label	Template:Small 2004	Template:Age in years and days	1998 (12th)	[[Second Vajpayee ministry|Template:Small]]	K. R. Narayanan
1999 (13th)							[[Third Vajpayee ministry|Template:Small]]
rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color;" | 14	Manmohan Singh Template:Small		Indian National Congress Template:Small	Template:Small 2004	Template:Small 2014	Template:Age in years and days	2004 (14th)	[[First Manmohan Singh ministry|Template:Small]]	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
2009 (15th)							[[Second Manmohan Singh ministry|Template:Small]]	Pratibha Patil
style="background:Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color;" | 15	Narendra Damodardas Modi Template:Small		Bharatiya Janata Party Template:Small	Template:Small 2014	Incumbent	Template:Age in years and days	2014 (16th)	[[Narendra Modi ministry|Template:Small]]	Pranab Mukherjee

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