Prime Ministers of India List (With Photo, Tenure, Party Name & Date of Birth)

India has seen many prime ministers since its independence in 1947 and each prime minister has their own importance in the making of India. Here we bring you the complete Prime Ministers of India list along with their basic details such as date of birth, tenure, party name, and photo.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the 10th Prime Minister of India & served for just 16 days as his first term from 16 May 1996 to 1 June 1996. Jawaharlal Nehru served India as PM for 16 years, 286 days in office and still is the longest serving prime minister of India.

Prime Ministers of India List – One by One

1. Jawaharlal Nehru

On 15 August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister of independent India. He held the post until his passing in 1964. He actualized moderate socialist economic reforms and submitted India to an arrangement of industrialization. Nehru additionally filled in as foreign minister of India.
Date of Birth: 14 November 1889
Party: Indian National Congress
Tenure: 15 August 1947 to 27 May 1964

2. Gulzarilal Nanda

Gulzarilal Nanda was an Indian politician and an economist with specialization in labor problems. He was the between time Prime Minister of India twice for thirteen days each: the first run through after the passing of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, and the second time after the demise of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966. The Government of India regarded Nanda with a Bharat Ratna award in 1997.
Date of Birth: 4 July 1898
Party: Indian National Congress
Tenure: 27 May 1964 to 9 June 1964

3. Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian statesman, PM of India (1964–66) after Jawaharlal Nehru. An individual from Mahatma Gandhi’s noncooperation development against the British government in India, he was detained for a brief timeframe (1921). Upon discharge, he studied in the Kashi Vidyapitha, a nationalist university, where he graduated with the title of Shastri (“learned in the sacred writings”). He at that point came back to politics as a supporter of Gandhi, was detained a few additional occasions, and accomplished influential positions in the Congress Party of the state of the United Provinces, now Uttar Pradesh state.
Date of Birth: 2 October 1904
Party: Indian National Congress
Tenure: 9 June 1964 to 11 January 1966

4. Indira Gandhi

Following the demise of Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi becomes the leader of the Congress Party and along these lines prime minister of India. She was India’s first female head of government and when of her death in 1984 was one of its most controversial. She filled in as Prime Minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her death in October 1984, making her the second-longest-serving Indian Prime Minister, after her dad.
Date of Birth: 19 November 1917
Party: Indian National Congress
Tenure: 24 January 1966 to 24 March 1977 and 14 January 1980 to 31 October 1984

5. Morarji Desai

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian independence activist and the Prime Minister of India from 1977-79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who didn\’t have a place with the Indian National Congress. He is the main Indian to get the highest civilian awards from the two India and Pakistan, the Bharat Ratna and Nishaan-e-Pakistan.

Date of Birth: 29 February 1896
Party: Janata Party
Tenure: 24 March 1977 to 28 July 1979

6. Chaudhary Charan Singh

Chaudhary Charan Singh was the fifth Prime Minister of the Republic of India from 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980. Chaudhary Charan Singh was the only PM of India who didn’t face Parliament. Students of history and individuals the same often allude to him as the champion of India’s peasants.

Date of Birth: 23 December 1902
Party: Janata Party (Secular)
Tenure: 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980

7. Rajiv Gandhi

At 41, Rajiv Gandhi was the most youthful Prime Minister of India and maybe one of the youngest elected heads of Government in the world, who filled in as the sixth Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989, after the death of his mom, Indira Gandhi, in 1984. He was himself assassinated in 1991.

Date of Birth: 20 August 1944
Party: Indian National Congress
Tenure: 31 October 1984 to 2 December 1989

8. Vishwanath Pratap Singh

Vishwanath Pratap Singh turned into India’s eighth PM on December 2, 1989, heading a minority National Front alliance government that finished a time of ceaseless Congress Party rule. However, he was ousted less than a year later.

Date of Birth: 25 June 1931
Party: Janata Dal (National Front)
Tenure: 2 December 1989 to 10 November 1990

9. Chandra Shekhar

Chandra Shekhar, politician and legislator, who filled in as eighth prime minister of India from November 1990 to June 1991. Shekhar split with the pioneer of the Congress Party, Indira Gandhi, in 1975 and spent time in jail during the national emergency she subsequently announced.

Date of Birth: 17 April 1927
Party: Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
Tenure: 10 November 1990 to 21 June 1991

10. P. V. Narasimha Rao

Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao, who was usually known as P. V. Narasimha Rao, filled in as the tenth Prime Minister of the Republic of India. He led one of the most important administrations in India’s modern history, managing a significant financial change and a few occurrences influencing national security. Rao quickened the destroying of the permit raj. Rao likewise called the “Father of Indian Economic Reforms,”.

Date of Birth: 28 June 1921
Party: Indian National Congress
Tenure: 21 June 1991 to 16 May 1996

11. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was three time Prime Minister of India, first from 16 May to 1 June 1996, and afterward from 19 March 1998 to 22 May 2004. Vajpayee filled in as the eleventh Prime Minister of India. The erstwhile members from the BJS shaped the BJP in 1980, with Vajpayee as its first president. During his residency as prime minister, India completed the Pokhran-II atomic tests in 1998.

Date of Birth: 25 December 1924
Party: Bhartiya Janata Party
Tenure: 16 May 1996 to 1 June 1996 and 19 March 1998 to 22 May 2004

12. H. D. Deve Gowda

Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda, Indian politician and legislator who filled in as chief minister of Karnataka from 1994 to 1996 and as eleventh prime minister of India from June 1996 to April 1997. He is a staunch crusader of financial improvement and a passionate admirer of the rich social legacy of India

Date of Birth: 18 May 1933
Party: Janata Dal (United Front)
Tenure: 1 June 1996 to 21 April 1997

13. Inder Kumar Gujral

Inder Kumar Gujral, Indian politician who served briefly as PM of India from April 21, 1997, to March 19, 1998, and who is associated with the Gujral Doctrine, a policy grounded on India’s unilaterally reaching out diplomatically to its neighbors without the expectation of reciprocity.

Date of Birth: 4 December 1919
Party: Janata Dal (United Front)
Tenure: 21 April 1997 to 19 March 1998

14. Manmohan Singh

India’s fourteenth Prime Minister, from 2004 to 2014, Dr. Manmohan Singh is properly acclaimed as a thinker and a scholar. In spite of the way that Singh had never won a Lok Sabha seat, He is all around respected for his persistence and his scholastic way to deal with work, just as his availability and his unassuming demeanour.

Date of Birth: 26 September 1932
Party: Indian National Congress
Tenure: May 22, 2004 to May 26, 2014

15. Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi is an Indian politician and fifteenth and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi joined the mainstream Bharatiya Janata Party in 1987, in the long run turning out to be national secretary. Chosen PM of India in 2014, he earned reelection to the post five years later.

Date of Birth: 17 September 1950
Party: Bhartiya Janata Party
Tenure: 26 May 2014 to Present

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List of All Prime Ministers of India

S. No.	Name	Birth – Death	Tenure
1	Jawahar Lal Nehru	1889 – 1964	15 August 1947-27 May 1964 (16 years, 286 days)
2	Gulzarilal Nanda	1898 – 1998	27 May 1964 to 9 June 1964 (13 days)
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri	1904 – 1966	9 June 1964 to 11 January 1966 (1 year, 216 days)
4	Gulzarilal Nanda	1898 – 1998	11 January 1966, 24 January 1966 (13 days)
5	Indira Gandhi	1917 – 1984	24 January 1966 to 24 March 1977 (11 years, 59 days)
6	Morarji Desai	1896 – 1995	24 March 1977 – 28 July 1979 (2 year, 126 days)
7	Charan Singh	1902 – 1987	28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980 (170 days)
8	Indira Gandhi	1917 – 1984	14 Jan.1980 to 31 Oct. 1984 (4 years, 291 days)
9	Rajiv Gandhi	1944–1991	31 Oct 1984 to 2 Dec 1989 (5 years, 32 days)
10	V. P. Singh	1931–2008	2 Dec 1989 to 10 Nov 1990 (343 days)
11	Chandra Shekhar	1927 – 2007	10 Nov 1990 to 21 June 1991 (223 days)
12	P. V. Narasimha Rao	1921 – 2004	21 June 1991 to 16 May 1996 (4 years, 330 days)
13	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	1924 – 2018	16 May 1996 to 1 June 1996 (16 days)
14	H. D. Deve Gowda	1933	1 June 1996 to 21 April 1997 (324 days)
15	Inder Kumar Gujral	1919 – 2012	21 April 1997 to 19 March, 1998 (332 days)
16	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	1924 – 2018	19 March 1998 to 22 May 2004 6 years, 64 days.
17	Manmohan Singh	1932	22 May 2004 to 26 May 2014 (10 years, 4 days
18	Narendra Modi	1950	2014 – Present

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