Leader of the House in Lok Sabha

Caucus head of the majority party in India's federal lower house

For Rajya Sabha, see Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha.

Leader of the House in Lok Sabha

Lok Sabhā Me Sadana ke Netā

State Emblem of India

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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
Residence| 7, Lok Kalyan Merg
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; #Deputy Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
Salary| ₹330,000 (US$3,900)
(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, usually the prime minister, if they are a member of the house. If the prime minister is not a member of the Lok Sabha, a minister who is nominated by the prime minister serves as the leader of the house.[1]

## History

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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 house.

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

## List of leaders of the House in Lok Sabha

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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)

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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  | 11 years, 51 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

### List of deputy leaders

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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)

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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

18th

Rajnath Singh[3]
(born 1951)
MP for Lucknow | 30 May
2019  | Incumbent  |  |
Om Birla
(2019 - present)

## Role

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Leader of the House in Lok Sabha is meant to lead the Lok Sabha in order to hold the Union Council of Ministers accountable to the house.[4]

## See also

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* 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

## Notes

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1. ^ During this period, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was member of Rajya Sabha.
2. ^ Arjun Singh served as the Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha after the constitution of the 10th Lok Sabha until the election of Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao as a member of the Lok Sabha in bye-election in November 1991.
3. ^ During this period, Prime Ministers H. D. Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral were members of Rajya Sabha.
4. ^ During this period, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was member of Rajya Sabha.
5. ^ Sushilkumar Shinde became the Leader of the House in 2012 after the election of Pranab Mukherjee as the President of India.

## References

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1. ^ "Lok Sabha". /legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
2. ^ "Sushil Kumar Shinde is new Lok Sabha Leader of the House". 3 August 2012. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
3. ^ "BJP appoints PM Narendra Modi the leader of the Lok Sabha, Rajnath Singh his deputy". Scroll.in. 12 June 2019.
4. ^ Article 75(3) of Constitution of India

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