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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).
Only 28 members of the Muslim League finally joined the Indian Assembly. Later, 93 members were nominated from the princely states. The Congress thus secured a majority of 82% Jawaharlal Nehru took charge as the first Prime Minister of India on 15 August 1947, and chose 15 other members for
As India's first Prime minister and external affairs minister, Nehru played a major role in shaping modern India's government and political culture along with the sound foreign policy. [328] He is praised for creating a system providing universal primary education, [ 329 ] reaching children in the farthest corners of rural India.
Seema Verma – first Indian-American female administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Sara Gideon - Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives; Suhas Subramanyam - first Indian-American elected to the Virginia General Assembly and former Obama Administration White House official
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 ...
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She was India's first and, to date, only female prime minister, and a central figure in Indian politics as the leader of the Indian National Congress (INC). She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, and the mother of Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded her in office as the country's sixth prime minister. Gandhi's ...
Prime Minister of Suriname: Head of government Suriname: 26 February 1983 8 January 1984 316 days Paramaribo, Surinam: Indo-Surinamese of Bhojpuri descent [11] [12] 8 Pretaap Radhakishun (1934–2001) Prime Minister of Suriname: Head of government Suriname: 17 July 1986 7 April 1987 264 days Paramaribo, Surinam: Indo-Surinamese of Bhojpuri ...