No Name (birth -- death) Portrait Prior Office Party (Alliance) Elected constituency Term of office Appointed by Lok Sabha Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 -- 1964) Vice President of Executive Council Indian National Congress Phulpur, Uttar Pradesh 15 August 1947 15 April 1952 16 years, 286 days Lord Mountbatten Constituent Assembly 15 April 1952 17 April 1957 Rajendra Prasad 1st 17 April 1957 2 April 1957 2nd 2 April 1957 27 May 1964 3rd -- Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898 -- 1998) Minister of Labour and Employment Indian National Congress Sabarkantha, Gujarat 27 May 1964 9 June 1964 13 days Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904 -- 1966) Minister of Home Affairs Indian National Congress Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh 9 June 1964 11 January 1966 1 year, 216 days Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan -- Gulzarilal Nanda (acting) (1898 -- 1998) Minister of Home Affairs Indian National Congress Sabarkantha, Gujarat 11 January 1966 24 January 1966 13 days Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Indira Gandhi (1917 -- 1984) Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prime Minister (Re-elected) Indian National Congress Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh 24 January 1966 4 March 1967 11 years, 59 days Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 4 March 1967 15 March 1971 V.V. Giri 4th 15 March 1971 24 March 1977 5th Morarji Desai (1896 -- 1995) Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of India before he resigned in 1969 Janata Party Surat, Gujarat 24 March 1977 28 July 1979 2 years, 126 days B.D. Jatti (acting President) 6th Charan Singh (1902 -- 1987) Minister of Finance Janata Party (Secular) with INC Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh 28 July 1979 14 January 1980 170 days Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (3) Indira Gandhi (1917 -- 1984) Former Prime Minister Indian National Congress (I) Medak, Andhra Pradesh 14 January 1980 31 October 1984 4 years, 291 days Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 7th 6 Rajiv Gandhi (1944 -- 1991) MP for Amethi Indian National Congress (I) Amethi, Uttar Pradesh 31 October 1984 31 December 1984 5 years, 32 days Zail Singh 31 December 1984 2 December 1989 8th 7 Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931 -- 2008) Minister of Defence Janata Dal (National Front) Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh 2 December 1989 10 November 1990 343 days R. Venkataraman 9th 8 Chandra Shekhar (1927 -- 2007) MP for Ballia Samajwadi Janata Party with INC Ballia, Uttar Pradesh 10 November 1990 21 June 1991 223 days R. Venkataraman 9 Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao (1921 -- 2004) Minister of External Affairs Indian National Congress (I) Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh 21 June 1991 16 May 4 years, 330 days R. Venkataraman 10th 10 Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924) Minister of External Affairs Bharatiya Janata Party Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 16 May 1 June 16 days Shankar Dayal Sharma 11th 11 Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda (born 1933) Chief Minister of Karnataka Janata Dal (United Front) Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka 1 June 21 April 1997 324 days Shankar Dayal Sharma 12 Inder Kumar Gujral (1919 -- 2012) Minister of External Affairs Janata Dal (United Front) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar 21 April 1997 19 March 1998 332 days Shankar Dayal Sharma (10) Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born 1924) Former Prime Minister Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 19 March 1998 10 October 1999 6 years, 64 days K.R. Narayanan 12th 10 October 1999 22 May 13th 13 Manmohan Singh (born 1932) Minister of Finance Indian National Congress (UPA) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam 22 May 22 May 2009 10 years, 4 days A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 14th 22 May 2009 26 May 2014 Pratibha Patil 15th 14 Narendra Modi (born 1950) Chief Minister of Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party (NDA) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 26 May 2014 Incumbent 4 years, 50 days Pranab Mukherjee 16th
who is the 1st prime minister of india
Jawaharlal Nehru