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Prime Ministers of India and the year they first took office: GK quiz

14 questions, each built from one row of the official list below — the correct option is that row exactly as the source prints it, and the wrong options are other rows of the same list. No AI wrote these questions. Free: your first 2 answers need no account, then sign up free to finish; your answers are not saved anywhere.

Source: Prime Minister's Office - pmindia.gov.in (Former Prime Ministers; PM's profile) ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026

  1. Question 1 of 14

    In which year did Shri Morarji Desai first become Prime Minister of India?

  2. Question 2 of 14

    In which year did Smt. Indira Gandhi first become Prime Minister of India?

  3. Question 3 of 14

    In which year did Shri Vishwanath Pratap Singh first become Prime Minister of India?

  4. Question 4 of 14

    In which year did Shri Jawaharlal Nehru first become Prime Minister of India?

  5. Question 5 of 14

    In which year did Shri Rajiv Gandhi first become Prime Minister of India?

  6. Question 6 of 14

    In which year did Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao first become Prime Minister of India?

  7. Question 7 of 14

    In which year did Dr. Manmohan Singh first become Prime Minister of India?

  8. Question 8 of 14

    In which year did Shri H. D. Deve Gowda first become Prime Minister of India?

  9. Question 9 of 14

    In which year did Shri Chandra Shekhar first become Prime Minister of India?

  10. Question 10 of 14

    In which year did Shri Charan Singh first become Prime Minister of India?

  11. Question 11 of 14

    In which year did Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri first become Prime Minister of India?

  12. Question 12 of 14

    In which year did Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee first become Prime Minister of India?

  13. Question 13 of 14

    In which year did Shri Narendra Modi first become Prime Minister of India?

  14. Question 14 of 14

    In which year did Shri Inder Kumar Gujral first become Prime Minister of India?

The official list (14 rows)

Prime MinisterYear first took office
Shri Jawaharlal Nehru1947
Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri1964
Smt. Indira Gandhi1966
Shri Morarji Desai1977
Shri Charan Singh1979
Shri Rajiv Gandhi1984
Shri Vishwanath Pratap Singh1989
Shri Chandra Shekhar1990
Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao1991
Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee1996
Shri H. D. Deve Gowda1996
Shri Inder Kumar Gujral1997
Dr. Manmohan Singh2004
Shri Narendra Modi2014

Left out or changed by Shishya: Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda left out: listed twice for interim spells (May 27, 1964 - June 9, 1964 and January 11, 1966 - January 24, 1966), i.e. acting PM - ambiguous for a 'Prime Minister' question. Indira Gandhi (1966 and 1980 terms) and Vajpayee (May 16, 1996 and March 19, 1998 terms) use the first term. Reverse null because 1996 repeats (Vajpayee, Deve Gowda). Modi's year from https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/pms-profile/ ('served as the Prime Minister of India from 2014 to 2019, and from 2019 to 2024'); Manmohan Singh's term on the former-PM page ends May 26, 2014.

Names and spellings are kept as the source prints them. Spotted a change on the official page? The list is re-read from the source, never from other sites.

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