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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).
India Today [39] 2006 [40] 2007 [41] 2008 [42] 2010 [43] Asian Personality of the Year fDi Intelligence [44] 2011 Best Chief Minister India Today [45] March 2012 Cover of Time Magazine (Asia Edition) Time [46] 2013 Best Chief Minister India Today [47] June 2014 Cover of Time Magazine (Asia Edition) Time [48] 2014 Indian of the Year: CNN-IBN [49 ...
Prime Minister of Djibouti: Presidential republic 1 April 2013 11 years, 261 days Edi Rama: Prime Minister of Albania: Parliamentary republic 13 September 2013 11 years, 96 days Kokhir Rasulzoda: Prime Minister of Tajikistan: Presidential republic 23 November 2013 11 years, 25 days Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India: Parliamentary republic ...
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 ...
India seizes Diu, Daman and Goa from Portuguese India. 1964: 27 May: Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. 1965: 6–23 September: Second war with Pakistan over Kashmir. 1966: 11 January: Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's mysterious death in Tashkent. 24 January: Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister. 1969: 19 July
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.
Deputy Prime Minister of India (13 March 1967 – 16 July 1969) [2] Minister of Finance (13 March 1958 – 29 August 1963; 13 March 1967 – 16 July 1969) [2] Chief Minister of Bombay State (21 April 1952 – 31 October 1956) Indian Independence activist [3] 24 March 1977 5 Charan Singh: Deputy Prime Minister of India (24 January 1979 – 28 ...
9 June – Sworn in for the third time as the 16th Prime Minister of India at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. Prime Minister of India, with President Droupadi Murmu administering the oath. 14-15 June – Prime Minister Modi visited Italy for the 50th G7 summit representing India on invitation by the Italian delegation, the hosts of the event ...