List of Prime Minister of India: 1947 to 2025

Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India in 2025, serving the nation for the past 11 years since first taking office in 2014. The list of Indian Prime Ministers begins with Jawaharlal Nehru, who became the first Prime Minister in 1947 and consist

Jawaharlal Nehru is the longest-serving Prime Minister of India, holding office for 16 years and 286 days from 1947 to 1964. Nehru was a prominent leader from the Indian National Congress (INC) party.

Notable Prime Ministers

Jawaharlal Nehru

First Prime minister of India.
Longest serving Prime minister.
Started many Govt. Institution like IIIT, IIM.
architect of modern India.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Known for the slogan “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan” slogan.
Leadership during the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
Started white revolution for milk production and green revolution for agriculture.

Indira Gandhi

First female Prime Minister of India.
Led the nation during the 1971 war.
Green Revolution.
Emergency.

Rajiv Gandhi

Youngest PM at the age of 40.
Introduced technology and economic reforms.

P. V. Narasimha Rao

Introduced liberalization and opened India’s economy to global markets.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Known for nuclear tests at Pokhran.
Promoting infrastructural growth.

Manmohan Singh

Credited for major economic reforms and steering India’s growth during global financial crises.
NREGA, RTI.

Narendra Modi

Introduced key reforms like GST, Demonetization.
Make In India, Startup India, Digital India, UPI.
Article 370, Ram Mandir. longest-serving non-Congress prime minister.
Surgical strike, balakot strike.

Longest serving Prime Ministers in India

Jawaharlal Nehru(16 years, 286 days)
Indira Gandhi(15 years, 350 days)
Narendra Modi(10 years, 289 days*)
Manmohan Singh(10 years, 4 days)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (6 years, 80 days)

Longest serving Political party as Prime Minister

Indian National Congress(INC): 54 years, 123 days
Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP): 17 years, 4 days*
Janta Dal(JD): 2 years, 269 days
Janta Party(JP): 2 years, 126 days
Samajwadi Janata Party (Rastriya): 223 days
Janata Party (Secular): 170 days

List of all prime minister of India from 1947-2025

S.No.	Name	Start of Term	End of Term	Duration in years and days	Political Party
1	Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)	15 August 1947	27-May-64	16 years, 286 days	Indian National Congress
2	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998)	27 May 1964	9-Jun-64	13 days	Indian National Congress
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966)	9-Jun-64	11-Jan-66	1 year, 216 days	Indian National Congress
4	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998)	11-Jan-66	24-Jan-66	13 days	Indian National Congress
5	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)	24-Jan-66	24-Mar-77	11 years, 59 days	Indian National Congress
6	Morarji Desai (1896–1995)	24-Mar-77	28-Jul-79	2 years, 126 days	Janata Party
7	Charan Singh (1902–1987)	28 July 1979	14-Jan-80	170 days	Janata Party (Secular)
8	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984)	14-Jan-80	31-Oct-84	4 years, 291 days	Indian National Congress
9	Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991)	31-Oct-84	2-Dec-89	5 years, 32 days	Indian National Congress
10	Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008)	2-Dec-89	10-Nov-90	343 days	Janata Dal
11	Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007)	10-Nov-1990	21-Jun-91	223 days	Samajwadi Janata Party
12	P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004)	21-Jun-91	16-May-96	4 years, 330 days	Indian National Congress
13	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018)	16-May-96	1-Jun-96	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
14	H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933)	1 June 1996	21-Apr-97	324 days	Janata Dal
15	Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012)	21 April 1997	19-Mar-98	332 days	Janata Dal
16	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018)	19 March 1998	22-May-04	6 years, 64 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
17	Manmohan Singh (1932-2024)	22-May-04	26-May-14	10 years, 4 days	Indian National Congress
18	Narendra Modi (born 1950)	26-May-14	Today	10 years, 292 days *	Bharatiya Janata Party