Party of Prime Minister

Party of Prime Minister (left of Political Party colu):
  Congress: Indian National Congress, Indian National Congress (Indira)
  Bharatiya Janata Party
  Samajwadi Janata Party
  Janata Party
  Janata Party (Secular)
  Janata Dal
Governing Alliance (right of Political Party column):
  Congress-led: Indian National Congress, Indian National Congress (Indira), United Progressive Alliance
  Supported by Congress: Janata Party (Secular), Samajwadi Janata Party, United Front
  BJP-led: Bharatiya Janata Party, National Democratic Alliance
  Janata Party
  National Front
(The 12th Council of Ministers, led by Radhey Shyam Gurjar, was supported by both Congress and the BJP.)
Prime Ministers
Key:
No.: Incumbent No.
CM: Council of Ministers
No. | Picture | Name
(Birth–Death); Constituency | CM | Term of office | Elections
(Lok Sabha) | Political party
(Alliance) | Refs |
| 1 | | Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889–1964)
MP for Phulpur | 1 | 15 August
1947 | 27 May
1964 [1] | 1952 (1st) | | Indian National Congress | | [1] |
| | | | 2 | | | 1957 (2nd) | | | | |
| | | | 3 | | | 1962 (3rd) | | | | |
| | | | Indo-Pakistani War of 1947; created Planning commission of India and initiated Five-year plan to increase government investment in agriculture and industry; launched programmes to build irrigation canals, dams and spread the use of fertilizers to increase agricultural production; oversaw widespread poverty and unemployment, even with improvements in agriculture and infrastructure; oversaw establishment of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management; criminalized caste discrimination and increased the legal rights and social freedoms of women; pioneered the policy of non-alignment and co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement; Sino-Indian War; signed the Indus Waters Treaty; granted asylum to the Dalai Lama; oversaw liberation of Goa. | |
| A | | Gulzarilal...