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Another 1957 English language short documentary Our Prime Minister was produced, compiled and directed by Ezra Mir, who also directed Three Weeks in the Life of Prime Minister Nehru in 1962. [365] [366] [367] Girish Karnad's historical play, Tughlaq (1962) is an allegory about the Nehruvian era.
Bottom left: Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first non-Congress prime minister to complete a full 5 year term. Bottom center: Manmohan Singh was the first prime minister from a minority religion. Bottom right: Narendra Modi is the only prime minister to be born in independent India and is the longest-serving non-Congress prime minister.
Full name: Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda Mannina Maga (Kannada: son of the soil), for iterating that he is down-to-earth and cares for the poor. [18]Dodda Gowdaru (Kannada: Senior Gowda), for disambiguating him from his children or anybody else with the Gowda title.
Lord Mountbatten swears in Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of India on 15 August 1947. There were members from Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Parsi communities represented in India's first ministry. There were two members from the Dalit community represented as well. [3] [4] Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was the only female Cabinet ...
Jawaharlal Nehru was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 15 August 1947. After first Indian general election, Nehru became the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the country and his second term started on 15 April 1952. In his ministry upon reelection, the ministers were as follows.
Assumed office of Prime Minister 1 Jawaharlal Nehru: Vice President of the Executive Council (2 September 1946 – 15 August 1947) Indian Independence activist; Advocate in the Allahabad High Court; 15 August 1947 2 Lal Bahadur Shastri: Minister of Home Affairs (4 April 1961 – 29 August 1963) [1] Minister of Railways (1951–1956) [1]
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.
Lal Bahadur Shastri served the Prime Minister of India (1964-1966) after Nehru Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi served as prime minister for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term (1980–84). Jawaharlal Nehru died on 27 May 1964, and Lal Bahadur Shastri succeeded him as prime minister.