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Prime Ministers of India

№	Name (birth–death)	Portrait	Prior Office	Party (Alliance)		Elected constituency	Term of office[6]			Appointed by
1	Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)		Vice President of Executive Council		Indian National Congress	Phulpur, Uttar Pradesh	15 August 1947	27 May 1964[†]	16 years, 286 days	Lord Mountbatten Rajendra Prasad
–	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898–1998)		Minister of Labour and Employment		Indian National Congress	Sabarkantha, Gujarat	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2	Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966)		Minister of Home Affairs		Indian National Congress	Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh	9 June 1964	11 January 1966[†]	1 year, 216 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
–	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898–1998)		Minister of Home Affairs		Indian National Congress	Sabarkantha, Gujarat	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
3	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)		Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prime Minister (Re-elected)		Indian National Congress	Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	24 January 1966	24 March 1977	11 years, 59 days	V. V. Giri
4	Morarji Desai (1896–1995)		Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of India before he resigned in 1969		Janata Party	Surat, Gujarat	24 March 1977	28 July 1979[RES]	2 years, 126 days	B. D. Jatti(acting President)
5	Charan Singh (1902–1987)		Minister of Finance		Janata Party (Secular) with INC	Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh	28 July 1979	14 January 1980[RES]	170 days	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
6	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)		Former Prime Minister		Indian National Congress (I)	Medak, Andhra Pradesh	14 January 1980[§]	31 October 1984[†]	4 years, 291 days	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
7	Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991)		MP for Amethi		Indian National Congress (I)	Amethi, Uttar Pradesh	31 October 1984	2 December 1989	5 years, 32 days	Zail Singh
8	Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008)		Minister of Defence		Janata Dal (National Front)	Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh	2 December 1989	10 November 1990[NC]	343 days	R. Venkataraman
9	Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007)		MP for Ballia		Samajwadi Janata Party with INC	Ballia, Uttar Pradesh	10 November 1990	21 June 1991[a]	223 days	R. Venkataraman
10	Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao (1921–2004)		Minister of External Affairs		Indian National Congress (I)	Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years, 330 days	R. Venkataraman
11	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924)		Minister of External Affairs		Bharatiya Janata Party	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh	16 May 1996	1 June 1996[RES]	16 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma
12	Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (born 1933)		Chief Minister of Karnataka		Janata Dal (United Front)	Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka	1 June 1996	21 April 1997[RES]	324 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma
13	Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012)		Minister of External Affairs		Janata Dal (United Front)	Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar	21 April 1997	19 March 1998	332 days	Shankar Dayal Sharma
14	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924)		Former Prime Minister		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh	19 March 1998[§]	22 May 2004	6 years, 64 days	K. R. Narayanan
15	Manmohan Singh (born 1932)		Minister of Finance		Indian National Congress (UPA)	Rajya Sabha MP for Assam	22 May 2004	26 May 2014	10 years, 4 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Pratibha Patil
16	Narendra Modi (born 1950)		Chief Minister of Gujarat		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh	26 May 2014[7]	Incumbent	3 years, 307 days	Pranab Mukherjee