Kerala PSC Study Material: List of Prime Ministers of India & Their specialties

1. Jawaharlal Nehru

• Longest serving Prime Minister of India
• The first Prime Minister to die in harness

2. Lal Bahadur Shastri

• The first prime minister of India died abroad (Tashkent)

3. Gulzarilal Nanda

• The only one person to become the Acting Prime Minister of India

4.Morarji Desai

• The first non-Congress Prime Minister of India
• MorarjiDesai was born on leap years day (29 February 1896)
• Oldest Prime Minister of India

5.Charan Singh

• Shortest serving Prime Minister of India (5 months 17 days)
• Prime Minister of India who did not face the Lok Sabha

6.Indira Gandhi

• The first Prime Minister who was assissinated
• The first Indian Prime Minister to lose an election
• The second woman Prime Minister in the world.

7. Rajiv Gandhi

• Youngest Prime Minister of India
• The Prime Minister who is known as father of Indian IT.

8. V. P. Singh

• V.P Singh was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

9. Chandra Shekhar

• Served as prime minister of India from November 1990 to June 1991.

10. P. V. Narasimha Rao

• The Prime Minister who is known as father of economic reforms in India.
• The first non-parliament member to become the Prime Minister of India.

11. H. D. Deve Gowda

• The second non-parliament member to become the Prime Minister of India.
• He was the 14th Chief Minister of Karnataka

12. I. K. Gujral

• Gujral was the third Prime Minister to be from the Rajya Sabha

13. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

• The first non-congress Prime Minister to completed his tenure
• The first Prime Minister who never took the membership of INC

14. Manmohan Singh

• The Prime Minister who never became the member of Lok Sabha.

15.Narendra Modi

• First Prime Minister to born in independent India.
• He was the Chief Minister of Guajarat

About Indian Prime Ministers

• Prime Minister for the longest period: Jawaharlal Nehru (17 years)
• The first woman Prime Minister: Indira Gandhi
• Prime Minister for the shortest term: A.B. Vajpayee (13 days)
• The oldest Prime Minister to assume office: Morarji Desai (at the age of 81)
• The youngest Prime Minister: Rajiv Gandhi (at the age of 40)
• The first Prime Minister to lose the election : Indira Gandhi (1977)
• The first Prime Minister to resign: Morarji Desai
• The first Prime Minister to die in harness: Jawaharlal Nehru
• The first Prime Minister to die in harness abroad: Lal Bahadur Shastri (at Tashkent)
• The first Prime Minister to get assassinated: Indira Gandhi (1984)
• The first  acting Prime Minister of India: Gulzarilal Nanda
• The Prime Minister who never faced the Parliament: Charan Singh
• The first Prime Minister to lose a vote of confidence: V.P.Singh
• Discovery of India, Glimpses of world history are books written by: Jawaharlal Nehru
• My Truth and Eternal India were books written by: Indira Gandhi
• First RBI Governor to become the Prime Minister of India: Manmohan Singh