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Since 1947, India has had 14 prime ministers. [a] Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first prime minister, serving as prime minister of the Dominion of India from 15 August 1947 until 26 January 1950, and thereafter of the Republic of India until his death in May 1964. (India conducted its first post-independence general elections in 1952).
As Modi rose to prominence in India, the UK [168] and the EU [169] lifted their bans in October 2012 and March 2013, respectively, and after his election as prime minister in 2014, the US lifted its ban and invited him to Washington, D.C. [170] [171] Modi meeting with then-Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh in 2004
Prime Minister of Tajikistan: Presidential republic 23 November 2013 11 years, 98 days Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India: Parliamentary republic 26 May 2014 10 years, 279 days Gaston Browne: Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda: Constitutional monarchy 13 June 2014 10 years, 261 days Saara Kuugongelwa: Prime Minister of Namibia
President of the Republic of India: Droupadi Murmu: 25 July 2022 [1] Vice President of the Republic of India: Jagdeep Dhankhar: 11 August 2022 [2] Prime Minister of the Republic of India: Narendra Modi: 26 May 2014 [3] Chief Justice of the Republic of India: Sanjiv Khanna: 11 November 2024 Speaker of Lok Sabha: Om Birla: 19 June 2019 [4] Chief ...
In accordance with the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the legislative assembly , the state's governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government .
The party with the biggest share of candidates in the Legislature gets to pick the prime minister. Even though Modi’s party received 37% of the votes in 2019, it won 303 out of the 543 seats.
The government, seated in New Delhi, has three primary branches: the legislative, the executive and the judiciary, whose powers are vested in bicameral Parliament of India, [6] Union Council of Ministers (headed by prime minister), [7] and the Supreme Court of India [8] respectively, with a president as head of state.
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.