The prime minister of India, is the chief executive of the government of India. The prime minister leads the executive branch and chairs the Council of Ministers.

Since the Independence of India, India has had fifteen prime ministers. The first was Jawaharlal Nehru of the Indian National Congress party.

The current prime minister is Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2014.

• №: Incumbent number
• ^† Assassinated or died in office
• ^§ Returned to office after a previous term
• ^RES Resigned
• ^NC Resigned following a no-confidence motion

No	Name (birth–death); constituency	Portrait	Party (Alliance)	Term of office		Elections (Lok Sabha)
1	Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur		Indian National Congress	15 August 1947	27 May 1964[†]	—
						1952 (1st)
						1957 (2nd)
						1962 (3rd)
2	Ghulzarilal Nanda (1898-1998)		IndianNationalCongress	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	-( 3rd )
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad		Indian National Congress	9 June 1964	11 January 1966[†]	– (3rd)
4	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898-1998)		Indian National Congress	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	- (3rd)
5	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli		Indian National Congress	24 January 1966	24 March 1977	– (3rd)
						1967 (4th)
						1971 (5th)
6	Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat		Janata Party	24 March 1977	28 July 1979[RES]	1977 (6th)
7	Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat		Janata Party (Secular) with INC	28 July 1979	14 January 1980[RES]	– (6th)
8	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Medak		Indian National Congress (I)	14 January 1980[§]	31 October 1984[†]	1980 (7th)
9	Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi		Indian National Congress (I)	31 October 1984	2 December 1989	– (7th)
						1984 (8th)
10	V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur		Janata Dal (National Front)	2 December 1989	10 November 1990[NC]	1989 (9th)
11	Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia		Samajwadi Janata Party with INC	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	– (9th)
12	P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal		Indian National Congress (I)	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	1991 (10th)
13	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow		Bharatiya Janata Party	16 May 1996	1 June 1996[RES]	1996 (11th)
14	H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Karnataka		Janata Dal (United Front)	1 June 1996	21 April 1997[RES]	– (11th)
15	I. K. Gujral (1919–2012) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Bihar		Janata Dal (United Front)	21 April 1997	19 March 1998	– (11th)
16	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	19 March 1998[§]	22 May 2004	1998 (12th)
						1999 (13th)
17	Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP (Rajya Sabha) for Assam		Indian National Congress (UPA)	22 May 2004	26 May 2014	2004 (14th)
						2009 (15th)
18	Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi		Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA)	26 May 2014[1]	Incumbent	2014 (16th)
						2019 (17th)
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