Prime Ministers
| No. | Portrait | Name |
CM | Term of office | Elections |
Political party |
Refs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
1 | 1947 |
1964 |
1952 (1st) | Indian National Congress | |||||
| 2 | 1957 (2nd) | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1962 (3rd) | ||||||||||
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Gulzarilal Nanda |
— | 1964 |
1964 |
– (3rd) | Indian National Congress | ||||
| 2 | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
4 | 1964 |
1966 |
– (3rd) | Indian National Congress | |||||
| — |
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Gulzarilal Nanda |
— | 1966 |
1966 |
– (3rd) | Indian National Congress | ||||
| 3 | Indira Gandhi |
5 | 1966 |
1977 |
– (3rd) 1967 (4th) |
Indian National Congress | |||||
| 6 | 1971 (5th) | ||||||||||
| 4 | Morarji Desai |
7 | 1977 |
1979 |
1977 (6th) | Janata Party | |||||
| 5 | Charan Singh |
8 | 1979 |
1980 |
– (6th) | Janata Party (Secular) |
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| Indira Gandhi |
9 | 1980 |
1984 |
1980 (7th) | Indian National Congress (Indira) | ||||||
| 6 | Rajiv Gandhi |
10 | 1984 |
1989 |
1984 (8th) | Indian National Congress | |||||
| 7 | V. P. Singh |
11 | 1989 |
1990 |
1989 (9th) | Janata Dal |
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| 8 | Chandra Shekhar |
12 | 1990 |
1991 |
– (9th) | Samajwadi Janata Party |
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| 9 | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
13 | 1991 |
1996 |
1991 (10th) | Indian National Congress | |||||
| 10 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
14 | 1996 |
1996 |
1996* (11th) | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||
| 11 | H. D. Deve Gowda |
15 | 1996 |
1997 |
1996* (11th) | Janata Dal |
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| 12 | Inder Kumar Gujral |
16 | 1997 |
1998 |
– (11th) | Janata Dal |
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| Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
17 | 1998 |
2004 |
1998 (12th) | Bharatiya Janata Party |
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| 18 | 1999 (13th) | ||||||||||
| 13 | Dr. Manmohan Singh |
19 | 2004 |
Incumbent | 2004 (14th) | Indian National Congress |
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| 20 | 2009 (15th) | ||||||||||
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