No
Name
Period
Political party
Name
(birth–death); constituency

1
Jawahar Lal Nehru
15-Aug-1947 to 27-May-1964
Indian NationalCongress
(1889–1964)
MP for Phulpur

2
Gulzarilal Nanda
27-May-1964 to 9 June 1964
Indian NationalCongress
(1898–1999)
MP for Sabarkantha

3
Lal Bahadur Shastri
09-Jun-1964 to 11-Jan-1966
Indian NationalCongress
(1904–66)
MP for Allahabad

4
Gulzarilal Nanda
11-Jan-1966 to 24 January 1966
Indian NationalCongress
(1898–1999)
MP for Sabarkantha

5
Indira Gandhi
24-Jan-1966 to 24-Mar-1977
Indian NationalCongress
(1917–84)
MP for Rae Bareli

6
Morarji Desai
24-Mar-1977 to 28-Jul-1979
Janata Party
(1896–1995)
MP for Surat

7
Charan Singh
28-Jul-1979 to 14-Jan-1980
Janata Party
(1902–87)
MP for Baghpat

8
Indira Gandhi
14-Jan-1980 to 31-Oct-1984
Indian NationalCongress
(1917–84)
MP for MEDAK

9
Rajiv Gandhi
31-Oct-1984 to 02-Dec-1989
Indian National Congress(Indira)
(1944–91)
MP for Amethi

10
Vishwanath PratapSingh
02-Dec-1989 to 10-Nov-1990
Janata Dal
(1931–2008)
MP for Fatehpur

11
Chandra Shekhar
10-Nov-1990 to 21-Jun-1991
Samajwadi JanataParty

(1927–2007)
MP for Ballia

12
P. V. Narasimha Rao
21-Jun-1991 to 16-May-1996
Indian NationalCongress

(1921–2004)
MP for Nandyal

13
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
16-May-1996 to 01-Jun-1996
Bharatiya JanataParty

(born 1924)
MP for Lucknow

14
H. D. Deve Gowda
01-Jun-1996 to 21-Apr-1997
Janata Dal

(born 1933)
MP (Rajya Sabha) for Karnataka

15
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
19-Mar-1998 to 22-May-2004
Bharatiya JanataParty
(born 1924)
MP for Lucknow

16
Dr. Manmohan   Singh
22-May-2004 to 26-May-2014
Indian NationalCongress
(born 1932)
MP (Rajya Sabha) for Assam

17
Narendra Modi
26-May-2014  to Incumbent
Bharatiya JanataParty
born (1950)
MP for Varanasi