Leader of the House in Lok Sabha

Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
Lok Sabhā Me Sadana ke Netā
State Emblem of India
Flag of India
Incumbent Narendra Modi since 26 May 2014
Style	His Excellency
Type	Parliamentary Leader
Status	Parliamentary Chairman of the Majority Party
Member of	Lok Sabha
Reports to	Parliament of India
Seat	Lok Sabha
Nominator	Lok Sabha members of majority Parliamentary Party
Appointer	President of India by convention, based on appointee's ability to command confidence in the Lok Sabha
Term length	At the pleasure of the President or Confidence of Parliamentary Party in Lok Sabha 5 years unless dissolved sooner No term limits specified
Formation	May 1952
First holder	Jawaharlal Nehru (1952–1964)
Unofficial names	Prime Minister (if the office holder is the head of government)
Deputy	vacant
Salary	₹330,000 (US$4,000) (excl. allowances) per month

The Leader of the House in Lok Sabha (IAST: Lok Sabhā Sadana ke Netā) is the parliamentary chairperson of the party that holds a majority in the Lok Sabha and is responsible for government business in the house. The office holder is usually the prime minister if they are a member of the house. If the prime minister is not a member of the Lok Sabha, usually the senior-most minister in the union cabinet serves as the leader of the house.^[1]

Seventeen individuals had served as the leader of the house in the Lok Sabha. Of which, twelve individuals (including Gulzarilal Nanda) were prime ministers and served as the leader of the house. Jawaharlal Nehru became the first leader of the house after the 1951 general election and served as the leader of the house until his death in 1964. After his demise, acting prime minister Gulzarilal Nanda briefly served as the leader of the house. Lal Bahadur Shastri and acting prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri served as the leader of the house.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi following her appointment in 1966 was a member of the Rajya Sabha and hence appointed Parliamentary Affairs minister Satya Narayan Sinha as the leader of the house in the Lok Sabha. Following her election to the Lok Sabha in the 1967 general election, Gandhi replaced Sinha as the leader of the house. Sinha, was thus, the first leader of the house who was not the prime minister.

Prime Ministers Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, V. P. Singh, Chandrashekhar, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee also served as the leaders of the house. After the 1991 general election, newly-appointed prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao was not elected to either house of the parliament. Education Minister Arjun Singh served as the leader of the house until the election of prime minister Rao as a member of the Lok Sabha from Nandyal in a bye-election in November 1991.

Two Janata Dal prime ministers H. D. Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral were members of the Rajya Sabha, hence Railways Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, being a senior member of the cabinet, served as the leader of the house under both premiers. Similarly, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was a member of the Rajya Sabha during his premiership from 2004 till 2014, the senior-most minister in the union cabinet Pranab Mukherjee served as the leader of the house from 2004 till his resignation from the Lok Sabha in 2012 after being elected as the President of India. He was succeeded by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde as the leader of the opposition.

The current prime minister Narendra Modi has been serving as the leader of the house since 2014.

Key

• ^† Assassinated or died in office

Lok Sabha	Portrait		Name (born – died) Constituency	Term of office			Ministerial offices held	Political party	Government	Prime Minister		Speaker (Tenure)
1st			Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur	13 May 1952	4 April 1957	12 years, 14 days	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs and Commonwealth Affairs	Indian National Congress	Nehru II	Self		Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar (1952–1956)
												M. A. Ayyangar (1956–1957, 1957–1962)
2nd				5 April 1957	31 March 1962				Nehru III
3rd				2 April 1962	27 May 1964[†]				Nehru IV			Hukam Singh (1962–1967)
			Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days	Acting Prime Minister Minister of Home Affairs Minister of External Affairs		Nanda I	Self
			Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad	9 June 1964	11 January 1966[†]	1 year, 216 days	Prime Minister		Shastri	Self
			Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days	Acting Prime Minister Minister of Home Affairs		Nanda II	Self
			Satya Narayan Sinha[a] (1900–1983) MP for Darbhanga	14 February 1966	3 March 1967	1 year, 17 days	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs		Indira I	Indira Gandhi
4th			Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli	14 March 1967	27 December 1970	3 years, 288 days	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1967–1969) Minister of Finance (1970) Minister of Home Affairs (1970–1973) Minister of Defence (1975)			Self		Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1967–1969)
												Gurdial Singh Dhillon (1969–1971, 1971–1975)
5th				15 March 1971	18 January 1977				Indira II
												Bali Ram Bhagat (1976–1977)
6th			Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat	23 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 127 days	Prime Minister Minister of Finance (1977, 1979) Minister of Home Affairs (1978–1979)	Janata Party	Desai	Self		Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1977)
												K. S. Hegde (1977–1980)
			Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat	28 July 1979	22 August 1979	25 days	Prime Minister	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan	Self
7th			Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Medak	10 January 1980	31 October 1984[†]	4 years, 295 days	Prime Minister Minister of Defence (1980–1982) Minister of External Affairs (1984)	Indian National Congress	Indira III	Self		Balram Jakhar (1980–1989)
			Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi	31 October 1984	31 December 1984	61 days	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1984–1985, 1987–1988) Minister of Defence (1985–1987) Minister of Finance (1987)		Rajiv	Self
8th				31 December 1984	27 November 1989	4 years, 331 days
9th			Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	Prime Minister Minister of Defence and Human Resource Development Minister of External Affairs (1989)	Janata Dal	V. P. Singh	Self		Rabi Ray (1989–1991)
			Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia	10 November 1990	13 March 1991	123 days	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1990)	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Self
10th			Arjun Singh[b] (1930–2011) MP for Satna	10 July 1991	20 November 1991	133 days	Minister of Education	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao		Shivraj Patil (1991–1996)
			P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal	6 December 1991	10 May 1996	4 years, 156 days	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1992–1993) Minister of Defence (1993–1996) Minister of Railways (1995–1996)			Self
11th			Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Prime Minister Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Ministry of Textiles Minister of Commerce and Industry	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee I	Self		P. A. Sangma (1996–1998)
			Ram Vilas Paswan[c] (1946–2020) MP for Hajipur	11 June 1996	4 December 1997	1 year, 176 days	Minister of Railways Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (1996)	Janata Dal	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
						Gujral			Inder Kumar Gujral
12th			Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow	19 March 1998	26 April 1999	1 year, 38 days	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1998) Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Communications and Information Technology (1998) Minister of Non Conventional Energy Sources (1998–1999) Minister of Coal and Mines (2002) Minister of Environment and Forests (2003–2004)	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II	Self		G. M. C. Balayogi (1998–1999, 1999–2002)
13th				13 October 1999	6 February 2004	4 years, 116 days			Vajpayee III
												Manohar Joshi (2002–2004)
14th			Pranab Mukherjee[d] (1935–2020) MP for Jangipur	25 May 2004	18 May 2009	4 years, 358 days	Minister of Defence (2004–2006) Minister of External Affairs (2006–2009) Minister of Finance (2009–2012)	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh		Somnath Chatterjee (2004–2009)
15th				3 June 2009	26 June 2012	3 years, 23 days			Manmohan II			Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
			Sushilkumar Shinde[e] (born 1941) MP for Solapur	3 August 2012[2]	18 May 2014	1 year, 288 days	Minister of Home Affairs
16th			Narendra Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi	26 May 2014	24 May 2019	10 years, 184 days	Prime Minister Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Minister of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences (2014)	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Self		Sumitra Mahajan (2014–2019)
17th				30 May 2019	04 June 2024				Modi II			Om Birla (2019–present)
18th				04 June 2024	Incumbent				Modi III

The Deputy Leader of the House in Lok Sabha (IAST: Lok Sabhā Sadana ke Upar Netā) is the deputy parliamentary chairperson of the party that holds a majority in the Lok Sabha and is responsible for government business in the house.

Lok Sabha	Name (born – died) Constituency		Term of office			Political party	Leader of the House		Speaker (Tenure)
14th		Meira Kumar (born 1945) MP for Sasaram	23 May 2004	22 May 2009	4 years, 364 days	Indian National Congress		Pranab Mukherjee		Somnath Chatterjee (2004–2009)
15th		Sushilkumar Shinde (born 1941) MP for Solapur	28 May 2009	31 July 2012	3 years, 64 days					Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
		Mallikarjun Kharge (born 1941) MP for Gulbarga	31 July 2012	18 May 2014	1 year, 291 days			Sushilkumar Shinde
16th		Gopinath Munde (1949–2014) MP for Beed	26 May 2014	3 June 2014	8 days	Bharatiya Janata Party		Narendra Modi		Sumitra Mahajan (2014–2019)
		Sushma Swaraj (1952–2019) MP for Vidisha	4 June 2014	24 May 2019	4 years, 354 days
17th		Rajnath Singh[3] (born 1951) MP for Lucknow	30 May 2019	4 June 2024	5 years, 5 days					Om Birla (2019 - present)

• Speaker of the Lok Sabha
• Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha
• Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha
• Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha
• Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha
• Secretary General of the Lok Sabha