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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]
Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, succeeded Shastri in 1966 to become the country's first female prime minister. [13] Eleven years later, her party, the Indian National Congress , lost the 1977 Indian general election to the Janata Party , whose leader Morarji Desai became the first non-Congress prime minister. [ 14 ]
He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi. [3] A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first Sikh prime minister of India. [4] He was also the first prime minister since Nehru to be re-appointed after completing a full five-year term. [5] [6]
The premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri extended from 9 June 1964 to 11 January 1966. Formerly the Minister of External Affairs, Shastri became the Indian Prime Minister after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, on 27 May 1964.
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
Gulzarilal Nanda (4 July 1898 – 15 January 1998) [1] [2] was an Indian politician and economist who specialised in labour issues.He was the Acting Prime Minister of India for two 13-day tenures following the deaths of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966 respectively.
Nonetheless, in 2004, when the Congress was voted back into power, Manmohan Singh became the first and only prime minister not to be the president of the party since establishment of the practice of the president holding both positions. [10] A total of 61 people have served as the president of the Indian National Congress since its formation. [11]
The Vice President of India, Shri Bhairon Singh Shekhawat looking at painting works by the former Prime Minister Shri V. P. Singh, after inaugurating the exhibition, in New Delhi on 14 February 2006 In 1992, Singh was the first to propose the name of the future President KR Narayanan as a (eventually successful) candidate for vice president ...