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]

1. Jawaharlal Nehru 2 April 1952 to 4 April 1957

2.Jawaharlal Nehru 5 April 1957 to 31 March 1962

3.Jawaharlal Nehru 2 April 1962 to 27 May 1964

4.Gulzari Lal Nanda 27 May 1964 – 9 June 1964

5.Lal Bahadur Shastri 9 June 1964 – 11 January 1966

6.Gulzari Lal Nanda 11 January 1966 – 24 January 1966

7.Satya Narayan Sinha 24 January 1966 – 3 March 1967

8.Indira Gandhi 4 March 1967 to 27 December 1970

9.Indira Gandhi 15 March 1971 to 18 January 1977

10.Morarji Desai 24 March 1977 to 28 August 1979

11.Charan Singh 28 August 1979 to 22 August 1979

12.Indira Gandhi 14 January 1980 – 31 October 1984

13.Rajiv Gandhi 31 October 1984 – 27 September 1989

14.Vishwanath Pratap Singh 2 December 1989 to 10 November 1990

15.Chandra Shekhar 10 November 1990 to 13 March 1991

16.Arjun Singh 9 July 1991 to 5 December 1991

17.P.V. Narasimha Rao 6 December 1991 to 10 May 1996

18.Atal Bihari Vajpayee 16 May 1996 to 31 May 1996

19.Ram Vilas Paswan 4 June 1996 to 4 December 1997

20.Atal Bihari Vajpayee 19 March 1998 to 26 April 1999

21.Atal Bihari Vajpayee 13 October 1999 to 6 February 2004

22.Pranab Mukherjee 22 May 2004 to 26 June 2012

23.Sushil Kumar Shinde 3 August 2012 to 18 May 2014

24.Narendra Modi 25 May 2014 incumbent

See also

Leaders of the Rajya Sabha

References