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In 1999, Vajpayee's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won the general election, the first non-Congress alliance to do so, and he served a full five-year term as prime minister. [18] The Congress, and its United Progressive Alliance won the general elections in 2004 and 2009, Manmohan Singh serving as prime minister between 2004 and 2014. [19]
Manmohan Singh (Punjabi: [mənˈmoːɦən ˈsɪ́ŋɡ] ⓘ; born 26 September 1932) is an Indian politician, economist, academician, and bureaucrat who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi.
Jagjivan Ram is India's longest serving Union Minister. The following is a list of the longest-serving ministers of the Union Council of Ministers of India, listing those individuals who served at least a decade in Union ministries. As of November 2024, 83 Union ministers have served for at least 10 years in office, including 18 who served for ...
Indian National Congress: 16 May 2011 6 June 2016 All India N.R. Congress: 7 May 2021 Incumbent: 18 S. C. Jamir: Nagaland: 18 April 1980 5 June 1980 15 years, 151 days United Democratic Front-Progressive 18 November 1982 29 October 1986 25 January 1989 16 May 1990 Indian National Congress: 22 February 1993 6 March 2003 19 Sheila Dikshit: Delhi ...
Prime Minister of India: Parliamentary republic 26 May 2014 10 years, 201 days Gaston Browne: Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda: Constitutional monarchy 13 June 2014 10 years, 183 days Saara Kuugongelwa: Prime Minister of Namibia: Semi-presidential republic 21 March 2015 9 years, 267 days Keith Rowley: Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
India follows a parliamentary system in which the prime minister is the presiding head of the government and chief of the executive of the government. In such systems, the head of state, or, the head of state's official representative (i.e., the monarch, president, or governor-general) usually holds a purely ceremonial position and acts—on most matters—only on the advice of the prime minister.
The 76-year-old, the longest-serving prime minister in the predominantly Muslim country of 170 million, has prided herself on how she transformed Bangladesh's economy into a global competitor ...
He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress. [4] Modi was born and raised in Vadnagar in northeastern Gujarat, where he completed his secondary education. He was introduced to the RSS at the age of eight.