Political Leaders of India

Leaders of India

Note: since the independence on 15 Aug 1947 to the proclamation of the Republic on 26 Jan 1950, the head of State was the British monarch, King George VI, represented by a Governor-General.

Parties: ICP: Indian Congress Party; ICP(i): Indian Congress Party (Indira Gandhi); JP: Janata Party; LD: Lok Dal; JD: Janata Dal (head of the multi-party coalition National Front/Left Front); BJP: Bharatiya Janata Party; JD(s): Janata Dal (Chandra Sekhar); n/p: non-party; TDP: Telugu Desam Party; SHS: Shiv Sena Party

Heads of State

Governors-General
Louis Francis Mountbatten		1947 - 1948 (+1979)
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari		1948 - 1950 (+1972) 
             
Presidents               
Rajendra Prasad				1950 - 1962 (+1963)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan		1962 - 1967 (+1975)
Zakir Husain				1967 - 1969 (+) 
Varahgiri Venkata Giri			1969	   (+1980)  
Mohammad Hidayatullah			1969 - 1969 (+1992
Varahgiri Venkata Giri			1969 - 1974 (+1980)
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed			1974 - 1977 (+) 
Basappa Danappa Jatti			1977        (+2002)
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy			1977 - 1982 (+1996)   
Zail Singh				1982 - 1987 (+1994)
Ramaswamy Iyer Venkataraman		1987 - 1992
Shankar Dayal Sharma			1992 - 1997 (+1999)
Kocheril Raman Narayanan		1997 - 2002 
Avul Pakiri Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam	2002 -

Prime Ministers

Jawaharlal Nehru			1947 - 1964 (+)      ICP
Gulzarilal Nanda			1964 - 1964 (+1998)  ICP
Lal Bahadur Shastri			1964 - 1966 (+)      ICP
Gulzarilal Nanda			1966 - 1966 (+1998)  ICP
Indira Gandhi				1966 - 1977 (+1984)  ICP
Morarji Desai				1977 - 1979 (+1995)  JP
Charan Singh				1979 - 1980 (+1987)  LD
Indira Gandhi				1980 - 1984 (+)      ICP
Rajiv Gandhi				1984 - 1989 (+1991)  ICP
Vishwanath Pratap Singh			1989 - 1990          JD 
Chandra Sekhar				1990 - 1991          JD
Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao	1991 - 1996          ICP
Atal Bihari Vajpayee			1996 - 1996          BJP
Haradanahalli Dodde Deve Gowda		1996 - 1997          JD
Inder Kumar Gujral			1997 - 1998          JD
Atal Bihari Vajpayee			1998 - 2004          BJP
Manmohan Singh				2004 -		     ICP

Speakers of the Lok Sabha

Ganesh Vasudeo Mavalankar		1952-1956 (+)     ICP
Madabushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar	1956-1962 (+1978) ICP
Sardar Hukam Singh			1962-1967 (+1983) ICP
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy			1967-1969 (+1996) n/p 
Gurundhayal Singh Dhillion		1969-1975 (+1992) ICP
Bali Ram Bhagat				1976-1977         ICP
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy			1977      (+1996) n/p
Kawdoor Sadaranda Hedge			1977-1980 (+1990) JP 
Bal Ram Jakhar				1980-1989         ICP 
Rabi Ray				1989-1991         JD 
Shivraj Patil				1991-1996         ICP
Purno Agitok Sangma			1996-1998         ICP
Ganti Mohana Chandra Balayogi		1998-2002 (+)k    TDP      
Manohar Joshi				2002-             SHS