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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 ]
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]
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.
Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92. ... Singh was the first Indian leader since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after serving a full first term, and the first ...
The spouse of the prime minister of India is the wife or husband of the prime minister of India. The prime minister's spouse does not have an officially defined role. According to protocol, they attend social functions and gatherings at home and overseas, but have no participatory role. [1]
He became the 6th prime minister of India after Indira's death. Sanjay Gandhi (1946–1980), second son of Indira. He was also one of the most trusted lieutenants of his mother during the 1970s and was widely expected to succeed his mother as prime minister of India, but met with an untimely death in a plane crash.
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]
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.