Leader of the House in Lok Sabha

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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

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

Key

^† Assassinated or died in office

Lok Sabha		Name (born – died) Constituency	Term of office			Ministerial offices held	Political party	Government	Prime Minister	Speaker (Tenure)
1st	65px	Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur	13 May 1952	4 April 1957	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs and Commonwealth Affairs	Indian National Congress	Nehru II	Self	Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar (1952–1956)
1st			13 May 1952	4 April 1957				Nehru II		M. A. Ayyangar (1956–1957, 1957–1962)
2nd			5 April 1957	31 March 1962				Nehru III		M. A. Ayyangar (1956–1957, 1957–1962)
3rd			2 April 1962	27 May 1964^[†]				Nehru IV		Hukam Singh (1962–1967)
	65px	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Acting Prime Minister Minister of Home Affairs Minister of External Affairs		Nanda I	Self
	65px	Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad	9 June 1964	11 January 1966^[†]	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Prime Minister		Shastri	Self
	65px	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Acting Prime Minister Minister of Home Affairs		Nanda II	Self
	65px	Satya Narayan Sinha^{[lower-alpha 1]} (1900–1983) MP for Darbhanga	14 February 1966	3 March 1967	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs		Indira I	Indira Gandhi
4th	65px	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli	14 March 1967	27 December 1970	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	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)
4th			14 March 1967	27 December 1970						Gurdial Singh Dhillon (1969–1971, 1971–1975)
5th			15 March 1971	18 January 1977				Indira II		Gurdial Singh Dhillon (1969–1971, 1971–1975)
5th			15 March 1971	18 January 1977				Indira II		Bali Ram Bhagat (1976–1977)
6th	65px	Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat	23 March 1977	28 July 1979	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Prime Minister Minister of Finance (1977, 1979) Minister of Home Affairs (1978–1979)	Janata Party	Desai	Self	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1977)
	65px	Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat	23 March 1977	28 July 1979			Janata Party	Desai	Self	K. S. Hegde (1977–1980)
	65px	Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat	28 July 1979	22 August 1979	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Prime Minister	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan	Self	K. S. Hegde (1977–1980)
7th	65px	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Medak	10 January 1980	31 October 1984^[†]	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Prime Minister Minister of Defence (1980–1982) Minister of External Affairs (1984)	Indian National Congress	Indira III	Self	Balram Jakhar (1980–1989)
7th	65px	Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi	31 October 1984	31 December 1984	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1984–1985, 1987–1988) Minister of Defence (1985–1987) Minister of Finance (1987)		Rajiv	Self
8th	65px	Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi	31 December 1984	27 November 1989	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).			Rajiv	Self
9th		Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Prime Minister Minister of Defence and Human Resource Development Minister of External Affairs (1989)	Janata Dal	V. P. Singh	Self	Rabi Ray (1989–1991)
9th	65px	Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia	10 November 1990	13 March 1991	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1990)	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Self	Rabi Ray (1989–1991)
10th	65px	Arjun Singh^{[lower-alpha 2]} (1930–2011) MP for Satna	10 July 1991	20 November 1991	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Minister of Education	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Shivraj Patil (1991–1996)
10th	65px	P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal	6 December 1991	10 May 1996	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1992–1993) Minister of Defence (1993–1996) Minister of Railways (1995–1996)	Indian National Congress	Rao	Self	Shivraj Patil (1991–1996)
11th	65px	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	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^{[lower-alpha 3]} (1946–2020) MP for Hajipur	11 June 1996	4 December 1997	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Minister of Railways Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (1996)	Janata Dal	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
			11 June 1996	4 December 1997	Gujral		Janata Dal	Inder Kumar Gujral
12th	65px	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow	19 March 1998	26 April 1999	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	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	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).			Vajpayee III		G. M. C. Balayogi (1998–1999, 1999–2002)
13th			13 October 1999	6 February 2004				Vajpayee III		Manohar Joshi (2002–2004)
14th	65px	Pranab Mukherjee^{[lower-alpha 4]} (1935–2020) MP for Jangipur	25 May 2004	18 May 2009	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	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	65px		3 June 2009	26 June 2012	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).			Manmohan II		Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
15th	65px	Sushilkumar Shinde^{[lower-alpha 5]} (born 1941) MP for Solapur	3 August 2012^[2]	18 May 2014	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Minister of Home Affairs		Manmohan II		Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
16th	65px	Narendra Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi	26 May 2014	24 May 2019	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	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		Om Birla (2019–present)

Deputy Leader of the House in Lok Sabha

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		Term of office			Political party
14th	75px Meira Kumar (born 1945) MP for Sasaram	23 May 2004	22 May 2009	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	50px Indian National Congress	75px Pranab Mukherjee	75px Somnath Chatterjee (2004–2009)
15th	75px Sushilkumar Shinde (born 1941) MP for Solapur	28 May 2009	31 July 2012	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).		75px Pranab Mukherjee	75px Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
15th	75px Mallikarjun Kharge (born 1941) MP for Gulbarga	31 July 2012	18 May 2014	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).		75px Sushilkumar Shinde	75px Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
16th	75px Gopinath Munde (1949–2014) MP for Beed	26 May 2014	3 June 2014	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).	Bharatiya Janata Party	75px Narendra Modi	75px Sumitra Mahajan (2014–2019)
16th	75px Sushma Swaraj (1952–2019) MP for Vidisha	4 June 2014	24 May 2019	Lua error in Module:Age at line 846: attempt to call method 'subtract' (a nil value).			75px Sumitra Mahajan (2014–2019)
17th 18th	75px Rajnath Singh^[3] (born 1951) MP for Lucknow	30 May 2019	Incumbent				75px Om Birla (2019 - present)

Role

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]

Notes

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Leader of the House in Lok Sabha

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