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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.
[263] [264] India's future prime minister and then a Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh Atal Bihari Vajpayee famously delivered Nehru an acclaimed eulogy. [265] After Nehru's death, Vajpayee made a speech in the Rajya Sabha, hailing Nehru as Bharat Mata's "favourite prince" and likened him to the Hindu god Rama. [266]
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.
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]
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, often regarded as the architect of modern India, addressing a newly independent India on 15 August 1947. The history of independent India or history of Republic of India began when the country became an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947.
India's relationship with the United States improved after Narendra Modi became PM. [381] During the run-up to the general election, there was wide-ranging scepticism about future of the strategic bilateral relationship under Modi's premiership; in 2005, while Chief Minister of Gujarat , Modi was denied a US visa during the presidency of George ...