Leader of theββHouse in Lok Sabha | |
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Lok SabhΔ Me Sadana ke NetΔ | |
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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 abilityββto command confidence in the Lok Sabha |
Term length | At the pleasure of the President/Confidence of Parliamentary Party in Lok Sabha 5 years unless dissolved sooner No term limits specified |
Formation | May 1952 |
First holder | Jawaharlal Nehru (1952β1964) |
Unofficial names | Prime Minister (if the office holder is: the head of government) |
Deputy | Nitin Gadkari |
Salary | βΉ330,000 (US$4,000) (excl. allowances) per month |
The Leader of the House in Lok Sabha (IAST: Lok SabhΔ Sadana ke NetΔ) 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 he is 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."
Historyβ»
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 electionββto 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 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.
List of Leaders of the House in Lok Sabhaβ»
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Lok Sabha |
Portrait | Name (born – died) Constituency |
Term of office | Ministerial offices held | Political party | Government | Prime Minister | Speaker (Tenure) | |||||
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889β1964) MP for Phulpur |
13 May 1952 |
4 April 1957 |
12 years, 14 days | Indian National Congress | Nehru II | Self | Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar (1952β1956) |
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M. A. Ayyangar (1956β1957, 1957β1962) |
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2nd | 5 April 1957 |
31 March 1962 |
Nehru III | ||||||||||
3rd | 2 April 1962 |
27 May 1964 |
Nehru IV | Hukam Singh (1962β1967) |
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Gulzarilal Nanda (1898β1998) MP for Sabarkantha |
27 May 1964 |
9 June 1964 |
13 days | Nanda I | Self | |||||||
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Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904β1966) MP for Allahabad |
9 June 1964 |
11 January 1966 |
1 year, 216 days | Shastri | Self | |||||||
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Gulzarilal Nanda (1898β1998) MP for Sabarkantha |
11 January 1966 |
24 January 1966 |
13 days | Nanda II | Self | |||||||
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Satya Narayan Sinha (1900β1983) MP for Darbhanga |
14 February 1966 |
3 March 1967 |
1 year, 17 days | Indira I | Indira Gandhi | |||||||
4th | ![]() |
Indira Gandhi (1917β1984) MP for Rae Bareli |
14 March 1967 |
27 December 1970 |
3 years, 288 days |
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Self | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1967β1969) |
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Gurdial Singh Dhillon (1969β1971, 1971β1975) |
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5th | 15 March 1971 |
18 January 1977 |
Indira II | ||||||||||
Bali Ram Bhagat (1976β1977) |
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6th | ![]() |
Morarji Desai (1896β1995) MP for Surat |
23 March 1977 |
28 July 1979 |
2 years, 127 days |
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Janata Party | Desai | Self | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1977) |
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K. S. Hegde (1977β1980) |
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Charan Singh (1902β1987) MP for Baghpat |
28 July 1979 |
22 August 1979 |
25 days | Janata Party (Secular) | Charan | Self | ||||||
7th | ![]() |
Indira Gandhi (1917β1984) MP for Medak |
10 January 1980 |
31 October 1984 |
4 years, 295 days |
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Indian National Congress | Indira III | Self | Balram Jakhar (1980β1989) |
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Rajiv Gandhi (1944β1991) MP for Amethi |
31 October 1984 |
31 December 1984 |
61 days |
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Rajiv | Self | ||||||
8th | 31 December 1984 |
27 November 1989 |
4 years, 331 days | ||||||||||
9th | ![]() |
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931β2008) MP for Fatehpur |
2 December 1989 |
10 November 1990 |
343 days | Janata Dal | V. P. Singh | Self | Rabi Ray (1989β1991) |
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Chandra Shekhar (1927β2007) MP for Ballia |
10 November 1990 |
13 March 1991 |
123 days | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | Chandra Shekhar | Self | ||||||
10th | ![]() |
Arjun Singh (1930β2011) MP for Satna |
10 July 1991 |
20 November 1991 |
133 days | Indian National Congress | Rao | P. V. Narasimha Rao | Shivraj Patil (1991β1996) |
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P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921β2004) MP for Nandyal |
6 December 1991 |
10 May 1996 |
4 years, 156 days |
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Self | |||||||
11th | ![]() |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924β2018) MP for Lucknow |
16 May 1996 |
1 June 1996 |
16 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee I | Self | P. A. Sangma (1996β1998) |
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Ram Vilas Paswan (1946β2020) MP for Hajipur |
11 June 1996 |
4 December 1997 |
1 year, 176 days | Janata Dal | Deve Gowda | H. D. Deve Gowda | ||||||
Gujral | Inder Kumar Gujral | ||||||||||||
12th | ![]() |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924β2018) MP for Lucknow |
19 March 1998 |
26 April 1999 |
1 year, 38 days |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | Vajpayee II | Self | G. M. C. Balayogi (1998β1999, 1999β2002) |
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13th | 13 October 1999 |
6 February 2004 |
4 years, 116 days | Vajpayee III | |||||||||
Manohar Joshi (2002β2004) |
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14th | ![]() |
Pranab Mukherjee (1935β2020) MP for Jangipur |
25 May 2004 |
18 May 2009 |
4 years, 358 days |
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Indian National Congress | Manmohan I | Manmohan Singh | Somnath Chatterjee (2004β2009) |
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15th | 3 June 2009 |
26 June 2012 |
3 years, 23 days | Manmohan II | Meira Kumar (2009β2014) |
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Sushilkumar Shinde (born 1941) MP for Solapur |
3 August 2012 |
18 May 2014 |
1 year, 288 days | |||||||||
16th | ![]() |
Narendra Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi |
26 May 2014 |
24 May 2019 |
10 years, 41 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | Modi I | Self | Sumitra Mahajan (2014β2019) |
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17th | 30 May 2019 |
04 June 2024 |
Modi II | Om Birla (2019βpresent) |
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18th | 04 June 2024 |
Incumbent | Modi III |
List of Deputy Leader of the House in Lok Sabhaβ»
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 |
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15th | ![]() Sushilkumar Shinde (born 1941) MP for Solapur |
28 May 2009 |
31 July 2012 |
3 years, 64 days | ![]() Meira Kumar (2009β2014) | |||||
![]() Mallikarjun Kharge (born 1941) MP for Gulbarga |
31 July 2012 |
18 May 2014 |
1 year, 291 days | ![]() Sushilkumar Shinde | ||||||
16th | ![]() Gopinath Munde (1949β2014) MP for Beed |
26 May 2014 |
03 June 2014 |
8 days | ![]() Bharatiya Janata Party |
![]() Narendra Modi |
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![]() Sushma Swaraj (1952β2019) MP for Vidisha |
04 June 2014 |
24 May 2019 |
4 years, 354 days | |||||||
17th | ![]() Rajnath Singh (born 1951) MP for Lucknow |
30 May 2019 |
04 June 2024 |
5 years, 5 days | ![]() Om Birla (2019 - present) | |||||
18th | Vacant | 04 June 2024 |
Incumbent | 32 days |
See alsoβ»
- 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
Notesβ»
- ^ During this period, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was member of Rajya Sabha.
- ^ 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.
- ^ During this period, Prime Ministers H. D. Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral were members of Rajya Sabha.
- ^ During this period, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was member of Rajya Sabha.
- ^ Sushilkumar Shinde became the Leader of the House in 2012 after the election of Pranab Mukherjee as the President of India.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Lok Sabha". /legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "BJP appoints PM Narendra Modi the leader of the Lok Sabha, Rajnath Singh his deputy". Scroll.in. 12 June 2019.