Prime Ministers of India

No.	Portrait	Name (birth–death); constituency	CM	Tenure[1]			Elections (Lok Sabha)	Appointed by	Political party (alliance)
1		Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur	1	15 August 1947	27 May 1964 [†]	16 years,286 days	–	Lord Mountbatten	Indian National Congress
			2				1952 (1st)	Rajendra Prasad
			3				1957(2nd)
			4				1962(3rd)
–	–	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	[4]	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days	– (3rd)	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2		Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–66) MP for Allahabad	5	9 June 1964	11 January 1966 [†]	1 year,216 days	– (3rd)
–	–	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	[5]	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days	– (3rd)
3		Indira Gandhi (1917–84) MP for Rae Bareli	6	24 January 1966	24 March 1977	11 years,59 days	– (3rd)
			7				1967 (4th)
			8				1971 (5th)	V. V. Giri
4		Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat	9	24 March 1977	28 July 1979 [RES]	2 years,126 days	1977 (6th)	B. D. Jatti	Janata Party
5		Charan Singh (1902–87) MP for Baghpat	10	28 July 1979	14 January 1980 [RES]	170 days	– (6th)	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	Janata Party (Secular) with Indian National Congress
(3)		Indira Gandhi (1917–84) MP for Rae Bareli	11	14 January 1980 [§]	31 October 1984 [†]	4 years,291 days	1980 (7th)		Indian National Congress (I)
6		Rajiv Gandhi (1944–91) MP for Amethi	[11]	31 October 1984	2 December 1989	5 years,32 days	– (7th)	Zail Singh	Indian National Congress
			12				1984 (8th)
7		V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur	13	2 December 1989	10 November 1990 [NC]	343 days	1989 (9th)	R. Venkataraman	Janata Dal (National Front)
8		Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia	14	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	223 days	– (9th)		Samajwadi Janata Party with Indian National Congress
9		P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal	15	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years,330 days	1991(10th)		Indian National Congress
10		Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924) MP for Lucknow	16	16 May 1996	1 June 1996 [RES]	16 days	1996(11th)	Shankar Dayal Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party
11		H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) MP (Rajya Sabha) forKarnataka	17	1 June 1996	21 April 1997 [RES]	324 days	– (11th)		Janata Dal (United Front)
12		I. K. Gujral (1919–2012) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Bihar	18	21 April 1997	19 March 1998	332 days	– (11th)
(10)		Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924) MP for Lucknow	19	19 March 1998 [§]	22 May 2004	6 years,64 days	1998(12th)	K. R. Narayanan	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)
			20				1999(13th)
13		Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP (Rajya Sabha) forAssam	21	22 May 2004	Incumbent	9 years,353 days	2004(14th)	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)
			22				2009(15th)	Pratibha Patil