CT BED EXAM ||List of International Organisation Heads – List of all Presidents & Prime Ministers of India – General Awareness Study Material & Notes

Given below is the List of all Presidents & Prime Ministers of India which is an important topic under general awareness, regarding Indian Politics. It is important for any well educated and aware individual of the country to know the names of all previous PM and President of India. We recommend you to bookmark this page and come back often to it, to ensure they remain in in your memory.

All Prime Ministers of India since independence:

S.No.	Name	Time Period	Political party
1	Jawahar Lal Nehru	15-Aug-1947 to 27-May-1964	Indian National Congress
2	Gulzarilal Nanda	27-May-1964 to 9 June 1964	Indian National Congress
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri	09-Jun-1964 to 11-Jan-1966	Indian National Congress
4	Gulzarilal Nanda	11-Jan-1966 to 24 January 1966	Indian National Congress
5	Indira Gandhi	24-Jan-1966 to 24-Mar-1977	Indian National Congress
6	Morarji Desai	24-Mar-1977 to 28-Jul-1979	Janata Party
7	Charan Singh	28-Jul-1979 to 14-Jan-1980	Janata Party
8	Indira Gandhi	14-Jan-1980 to 31-Oct-1984	Indian National Congress
9	Rajiv Gandhi	31-Oct-1984 to 02-Dec-1989	Indian National Congress(Indira)
10	Vishwanath PratapSingh	02-Dec-1989 to 10-Nov-1990	Janata Dal
11	Chandra Shekhar	10-Nov-1990 to 21-Jun-1991	Samajwadi JanataParty
12	P. V. Narasimha Rao	21-Jun-1991 to 16-May-1996	Indian National Congress
13	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16-May-1996 to 01-Jun-1996	Bharatiya Janata Party
14	H. D. Deve Gowda	01-Jun-1996 to 21-Apr-1997	Janata Dal
15	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	19-Mar-1998 to 22-May-2004	Bharatiya Janata Party
16	Dr. Manmohan   Singh	22-May-2004 to 26-May-2014	Indian National Congress
17	Narendra Modi	26-May-2014  to present	Bharatiya Janata Party

As you can see from the table above that so far the prime minister’s office has been held largely by Congress followed by the Bharatiya Janata Party.

List of Presidents of India since independence:

Term	Name	Time Period	Political party
1	Rajendra Prasad	26-Jan-1950 to 13-May-1962	Indian National Congress
2	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	13-May-1962 to 13-May-1967	Independent
3	Zakir Hussain (Died in office)	13-May-1967 to 3-May-1969	Independent
	Varahagiri Venkata Giri (Acting president)	3-May-1969 to 20-Jul-1969	Independent
	Muhammad Hidayatullah (Acting president)	20-Jul-1969 to 24-Aug-1969	Chief Justice of India
4	Varahagiri Venkata Giri	24-Aug-1969 to 24-Aug-1974	Independent
5	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed(second president to die in office)	24-Aug-1974 to 11-Feb-1977	Indian National Congress
	Basappa Danappa Jatti (Acting president)	11-Feb-1977 to 25-Jul-1977	Independent
6	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy	25-Jul-1977 to 25-Jul-1982	Janata Party
7	Giani Zail Singh	25-Jul-1982 to 25-Jul-1987	Indian National Congress
8	Ramaswamy Venkataraman	25-Jul-1987 to 25-Jul-1992	Indian National Congress
9	Shankar Dayal Sharma	25-Jul-1992 to 25-Jul-1997	Indian National Congress
10	Kocheril Raman Narayanan	25-Jul-1997 to 25-Jul-2002	Independent
11	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	25-Jul-2002 to 25-Jul-2007	Independent
12	Pratibha Patil	25-Jul-2007 to 25-Jul-2012	Indian National Congress
13	Pranab Mukherjee	25-Jul-2012 to 25 July 2017	Indian National Congress
14	Ram Nath Kovind	25 July 2017 to present	NDA

 

However these lists are not very often updated, I still recommend you to visit this page on a regular basis and go through the names once in while. Questions can be asked from these lists in various examination.