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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.
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).
[2] [3] On 7 June 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed the support of 293 MPs to Droupadi Murmu, the president of India. [4] This marked Modi's third term as prime minister and his first time heading a coalition government, [5] with the Telugu Desam Party of Andhra Pradesh and Janata Dal (United) of Bihar emerging as two main allies. [6 ...
Singh was India’s first, and so far only, Sikh prime minister. He offered a public apology for the 1984 massacre of some 3,000 Sikhs in the aftermath of former prime minister Indira Gandhi's ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The body of Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister whose death has sparked outpourings of grief at home and accolades from abroad, was cremated on Sunday on the ...
As Modi rose to prominence in India, the UK [167] and the EU [168] 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. [169] [170] Modi meeting with then-Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh in 2004
(L-R) President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister of Mauritius, Navin Ramgoolam. Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai accepted the invitation to attend the ceremony. [13] He is bound to leave the office post the ongoing presidential elections. But ...
The prime minister leads the executive of the Government of India. The prime minister is the senior member of the cabinet in the executive government in a parliamentary system. The prime minister selects and can dismiss other members of the cabinet; allocates posts to members within the Government; is the presiding member and chairman of the ...