Leader of the House (India)

Leader of the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of the Indian Parliament, is the Prime Minister by default if he is a member of the Lok Sabha. If the Prime Minister is not a member of the Lower House of Parliament he can nominate another minister as the Leader of the House.[1]

No. Name Portrait Took office Left office
1 Jawaharlal Nehru 2 April 1952 4 April 1957
5 April 1957 31 March 1962
2 April 1962 27 May 1964
2 Gulzari Lal Nanda 27 May 1964 9 June 1964
3 Lal Bahadur Shastri 9 June 1964 11 January 1966
4 Gulzari Lal Nanda 11 January 1966 24 January 1966
5 Satya Narayan Sinha 24 January 1966 3 March 1967
6 Indira Gandhi 4 March 1967 27 December 1970
15 March 1971 18 January 1977
7 Morarji Desai 24 March 1977 28 August 1979
8 Charan Singh 28 August 1979 22 August 1979
9 Indira Gandhi 14 January 1980 31 October 1984
10 Rajiv Gandhi 31 October 1984 27 September 1989
11 Vishwanath Pratap Singh 2 December 1989 10 November 1990
12 Chandra Shekhar 10 November 1990 13 March 1991
13 Arjun Singh 9 July 1991 5 December 1991
14 P.V. Narasimha Rao 6 December 1991 10 May 1996
15 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 16 May 1996 31 May 1996
16 Ram Vilas Paswan 4 June 1996 4 December 1997
17 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 19 March 1998 26 April 1999
13 October 1999 6 February 2004
18 Pranab Mukherjee 22 May 2004 26 June 2012
19 Sushil Kumar Shinde 3 August 2012 18 May 2014
20 Narendra Modi 25 May 2014 Incumbent

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Lok Sabha". /legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
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