Name Party Term Lok Sabha Vacant No official opposition 26 January 1952 -- 4 April 1957 First Vacant No official opposition 4 April 1957 -- 4 March 1967 Second Third Vacant No official opposition 4 March 1967 -- 12 December 1969 Fourth Ram Subhag Singh Indian National Congress (O) 17 December 1969 -- 27 December 1970 Vacant No official opposition 27 December 1970 -- 30 June 1977 Fifth Y.B. Chavan Indian National Congress 1 July 1977 -- 11 April 1978 Sixth C.M. Stephen 12 April 1978 -- 9 July 1979 Y.B. Chavan 10 -- 28 July 1979 Jagjivan Ram Janata Party 29 July -- 22 August 1979 Vacant No official opposition 22 August 1979 -- 18 December 1989 Seventh Eighth Rajiv Gandhi Indian National Congress 18 December 1989 -- 23 December 1990 Ninth L.K. Advani Bharatiya Janata Party 24 December 1990 -- 13 March 1991 21 June 1991 -- 26 July 1993 Tenth Atal Bihari Vajpayee 21 July 1993 -- 10 May 1996 P.V. Narasimha Rao Indian National Congress 16 May 1996 -- 31 May 1996 Eleventh Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party 1 June 1996 -- 4 December 1997 Sharad Pawar Indian National Congress 19 March 1998 -- 26 April 1999 Twelfth Sonia Gandhi 31 October 1999 -- 6 February 2004 Thirteenth L.K. Advani Bharatiya Janata Party 21 May 2004 -- 18 May 2009 Fourteenth Sushma Swaraj 21 December 2009 -- 19 May 2014 Fifteenth Vacant No official opposition 20 May 2014 - Till date Sixteenth Source:
first leader of opposition in lok sabha was
Ram Subhag Singh