List Of All Prime Ministers Of India In Hindi

The Prime Minister of India is ranked the second-highest official in the Indian governing hierarchy and is also, therefore, referred to as the chief executive of the government of India. Though the President of India is considered as the head of the country, in reality, the existing powers in exercise are executed by the Prime Minister of India along with the council ministers of Parliament. The Prime Minister of India who is appointed and swore-in by the President is the leader of the party or its alliance who acquired the maximum number of seats in the lower house of the parliament.

Post the independence of India, it has seen 14 Prime Ministers and 15th including Guzarilal Nanda, who acted as an emergency Prime Minister for a very short duration. Out of the 14 Prime Ministers, 6 of them have held the post of Prime Minister for one full term and some even more in the 60 years of independent ruling of the country since 1947. Jawaharlal Lal Nehru was the first Prime Minister appointed in the year 1947 by free India and took the oath on 15th August 1947, the day when India got its Independence from British Ruling. He served as the longest Prime Minister of India for 16 years and 286 days until his demise in the year 1964 in May.

He was followed by Lal Bahadur Sastri, who became the second Prime Minister of India and served the country for one year and seven months before he died. With that, Indira Gandhi, who was the daughter of Nehru, became the first female Prime Minister in the year 1966 and was in power for 11 years. But later, she was voted out by the power that went in favour of the Janata Party. And with this, Morarji Desai became the first Prime Minister of India who did not belong to the Congress party. After the resignation of Moraji Desai in the year 1979, Charan Singh, who was the appointed former deputy, held on to the seat for a brief period until Indira Gandhi again came in power and ran the country for the next five years. Finally, on 31st October 1984, she was assassinated by her bodyguards. Following her demise, her son, Rajiv Gandhi, became the youngest Prime Minister of India. That is how the Congress party and the Nehru Gandhi family have served as Prime Minister for a total duration of 37 years and 303 days.

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List Of Prime Ministers Of India By The Duration Of Serving

All Prime Ministers of India list by the length of terms is as follows:

List Of Prime Ministers Of India Party Duration

The timespan of the political party whose member/members holding PMO are given below:

A Short Description Of All Prime Ministers Of India List

1. Jawaharlal Nehru: Jawaharlal Nehru was also known as Pandit Nehru and Chacha Nehru. In the twentieth century, he was the eminent figure of the central political party called All India Congress before as well as after Independence as his party and all the members actively took part in the freedom movements from the British Raj. He was the first Prime Minister of India and was considered the best nationalist statesman and a prominent of his time who founded Indian National Congress. He was born on 14th November 1889 and died on 27th May 1964. He was Kashmiri Pandit and was born to Motilal Nehru and Swarup Rani. During the period of the 1930s, he dominated Indian Politics as the country was heading towards Independence.

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2. Indira Gandhi: Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was popularly known as Indira Gandhi. She was born on 19th November 1917 and was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru. She was another prominent central member of the Indian National Congress and was elected as the President of the party in the year 1959. Soon in the year 1964, post her father’s demise, she became a member of the upper house of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and joined as a cabinet minister of Lal Bahadur Shastri’s cabinet. She is the only female Prime Minister of India to date and became the 3rd Prime Minister of India. She was Prime Minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again reelected in Jan 1980. She was assassinated by her bodyguards in October 1984 after she carried on a mission blue star under which she ordered military action on Golden Temple on Sikhs. 

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3. Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2nd October 1904 and was the second Prime Minister of India. He was considered as one of the eminent statesmen during the pre and post-independence era. He was the one who first initiated the white revolution, where he targeted the increasing production of milk domestically by supporting groups like Amul and Anand dairy in Gujarat. He also founded and established the National Dairy Development Board to support the white revolution. He also promoted the green revolution later in his tenure as Prime Minister in the year 1965. It was finally resulting in a massive hike in the food grain production in three major agriculture states, that is, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. He died in the year 1966 on the 11th of January. 

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4. Morarji Desai: Morarji Desai was born on 29th February 1869 and has been a prime activist during the pre-independence struggle of India against British Rule. Morarji Desai is the 4th Prime Minister of India and became the first Prime Minister who belongs to the Janata Party, breaking the chain of Indian National Congress members being Prime Minister. He served as Prime Minister from 1977 to 1979 and was appointed minister by the Janata Party members. He also served respectable positions in the Government of India that included Minister of Bombay States, Finance Minister, Home Minister and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was internationally acclaimed for his initiative towards international peace activism. He was the first Prime Minister to initiate a peace movement between rivals of South Asia, India and Pakistan. During the nuclear testing, he ensured a friendly relationship with China. He also came to terms to sign the agreement to avoid armed conflict between Pakistan and India. Thus he was also honoured with Nishan-e-Pakistan in the year 1990, on 19th May, which is considered as the highest civilian award in Pakistan. 

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5. Chaudhary Charan Singh: He was born on 23rd December 1902, and he served as the 5th Prime Minister of India. The tenure of his service as a Prime Minister of India was from 28th July 1979 to 14th January 1980. Historians often refer to him as a Champion of India’s Peasants.

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6. Rajiv Gandhi: Rajiv Ratna Gandhi, famously known as Rajiv Gandhi, was from an influential and topmost political family of Nehru-Gandhi. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and became the sixth and the youngest Prime Minister of India at the age of 40 after his mother, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated. He was born on 20th August. He served as a Prime Minister of India from the year 1984 till 1989. In the year 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was honoured with Bharat Ratna Award by the Government of India. 

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7. Vishwa Nath Pratap Singh: Vishwa Nath Pratap Sing was born on 25th June 1931 in the family of the royal. He was elected as the 7th Prime Minister of India and was the first Prime Minister who was a former monarch as the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda. He was a member of the Indian National Congress who joined the party in the year 1969. He then served as a member of the U.P. legislative assembly and from there became a member of parliament in the Lok sabha assembly. Later he was elected as the chief minister of U.P. and became famous for encountering Phoolan Devi’s gang. He was also elected as the minister of commerce and served for a year (1976-1977). 

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8. Chandra Shekhar: He was born on 1st July 1927 and was appointed the 8th Prime Minister of India. He served his tenure as a Prime Minister from 10th November 1990 to 21st June 1991. He was the only Prime Minister who was never appointed to serve any other ministry in the Government of India. He headed a minority group that broke out from Janta Dal and formed the Congress Socialist Party with the help of the Indian National Congress.

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9. P.V. Narsimha Rao: P.V. Narsimha Rao was born on 28th July 1921 and served as 9th Prime Minister of India. He served his tenure as a Prime Minister from the year 1991 to the year 1996. He was also a profound lawyer along with politics. He was the second Prime Minister from non-Hindi lingual and first from south India. 

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10. Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Atal Bihari Vajpayee was born on 25th December 1924 and served as the 10th Prime Minister of India. He served his full term tenure as a Prime Minister from the year 1999 to the year 2004. But prior to this, he served the first term tenure as a Prime Minister for 13 days in 1996 and the second term tenure for 13 months from 1998 to 1999. He was the co-founder and the senior politician who is still considered a very respectable member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was also an eminent member of RSS, which is considered a Hindu Nationalist group that has always been an integral part of BJP. He was also remembered as a great poet and a writer. He served as a member of Parliament for over six decades, where he was elected in Lok Sabha 10 times and twice in Rajya Sabha. 

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11. H.D. Deve Gowda: Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda, popularly known as H.D. Deve Gowda, was born on 18th May 1933 and served as the 11th Prime Minister of India. He served his full term tenure as a Prime Minister from 1st June 1996 to 21st April 1997. He is a member of the parliament in the Rajya Sabha Assembly who represented Karnataka.

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12. Inder Kumar Gujral: Inder Kumar Gujral was born on 4th December 1919 and served the nation as the 12th Prime Minister of India. He served his tenure from April 1997 to March 1998. He was a diplomat and an activist of the freedom movement. During Pre-independence, he was a part of the All India Student Federation, from where he became a member of the Communist Party of India. After Independence, he became an active member of the Indian National Congress.

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13. Manmohan Singh: Manmohan Singh was born on 26th September 1932 and served the nation as the 13th Prime Minister of India. He served his tenure from 2004 to 2014. He was the first Sikh Prime Minister who belonged to the Indian National Congress. After Jawaharlal Nehru, he is the second Prime Minister to get re-elected after completing the full five years tenure of being Prime Minister of India for the first term. He is also a renowned economist who served in some prestigious positions in the Government of India. Those are the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Chief economic advisor and governor of the Reserve bank of India. 

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14. Narendra Modi: He is the current Prime Minister of India who is also the 14th Prime Minister born on 17th September 1950. He is the first Prime Minister who was born post-independence. He is the Prime Minister of India who was elected in the year 2014. Prior to being Prime Minister of India, from 2001 till 2014, he was the chief minister of Gujarat. He was also a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha, representing Varanasi. He belongs to BJP and NDA. He is the second Prime Minister who is re-elected as Prime Minister of India after Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who also belonged to the BJP.

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