Leader of the House in Lok Sabha

Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
Lok Sabhā Sadana ke Netā
	State Emblem of India
	Flag of India
	Incumbent; Narendra Modi; since 26 May 2014
Style	His Excellency
Type	Parliamentary Leader
Status	Parliamentary Chairman
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 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	Deputy Leader of the House
Salary	₹330,000 (US$4,100); (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 and is responsible for government business in the house. The office holder is usually the prime minister if they are 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.[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 opposition.

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

List of Leader 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	Jawaharlal Nehru जवाहरलाल नेहरू (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur	13 May 1952	4 April 1957	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)
	Gulzarilal Nanda गुलज़ारीलाल नंदा (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	Acting Prime Minister Minister of Home Affairs Minister of External Affairs		Nanda I	Self
	Lal Bahadur Shastri लाल बहादुर शास्त्री (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad	9 June 1964	11 January 1966^[†]	Prime Minister		Shastri	Self
	Gulzarilal Nanda गुलज़ारीलाल नंदा (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	Acting Prime Minister Minister of Home Affairs		Nanda II	Self
	Satya Narayan Sinha[lower-alpha 1] सत्य नारायण सिन्हा (1900–1983) MP for Darbhanga	14 February 1966	3 March 1967	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs		Indira I	Indira Gandhi
4th	Indira Gandhi इंदिरा गांधी (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli	14 March 1967	27 December 1970	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	Morarji Desai मोरारजी देसाई (1896–1995) MP for Surat	23 March 1977	28 July 1979	Prime Minister Minister of Finance (1977, 1979) Minister of Home Affairs (1978–1979)	Janata Party	Desai	Self	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1977)
	Morarji Desai मोरारजी देसाई (1896–1995) MP for Surat	23 March 1977	28 July 1979		Janata Party	Desai	Self	K. S. Hegde (1977–1980)
	Charan Singh चरण सिंह (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat	28 July 1979	22 August 1979	Prime Minister	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan	Self	K. S. Hegde (1977–1980)
7th	Indira Gandhi इंदिरा गांधी (1917–1984) MP for Medak	10 January 1980	31 October 1984^[†]	Prime Minister Minister of Defence (1980–1982) Minister of External Affairs (1984)	Indian National Congress	Indira III	Self	Balram Jakhar (1980–1989)
7th	Rajiv Gandhi राजीव गांधी (1944–1991) MP for Amethi	31 October 1984	31 December 1984	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1984–1985, 1987–1988) Minister of Defence (1985–1987) Minister of Finance (1987)		Rajiv	Self
8th	Rajiv Gandhi राजीव गांधी (1944–1991) MP for Amethi	31 December 1984	27 November 1989			Rajiv	Self
9th	Vishwanath Pratap Singh विश्वनाथ प्रताप सिंह (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	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	Chandra Shekhar चन्द्रशेखर (1927–2007) MP for Ballia	10 November 1990	13 March 1991	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1990)	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Self	Rabi Ray (1989–1991)
10th	Arjun Singh[lower-alpha 2] अर्जुन सिंह (1930–2011) MP for Satna	10 July 1991	20 November 1991	Minister of Education	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Shivraj Patil (1991–1996)
10th	P. V. Narasimha Rao पी. वी. नरसिम्हा राव (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal	6 December 1991	10 May 1996	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	Atal Bihari Vajpayee अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	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] राम विलास पासवान (1946–2020) MP for Hajipur	11 June 1996	4 December 1997	Minister of Railways Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (1996)	Janata Dal	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
		11 June 1996	4 December 1997		Janata Dal	Gujral	Inder Kumar Gujral
12th	Atal Bihari Vajpayee अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow	19 March 1998	26 April 1999	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			Vajpayee III		G. M. C. Balayogi (1998–1999, 1999–2002)
13th		13 October 1999	6 February 2004			Vajpayee III		Manohar Joshi (2002–2004)
14th	Pranab Mukherjee[lower-alpha 4] प्रणब मुखर्जी (1935–2018) MP for Jangipur	25 May 2004	18 May 2009	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			Manmohan II		Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
15th	Sushilkumar Shinde[lower-alpha 5] सुशील कुमार शिंदे (born 1941) MP for Solapur	3 August 2012[2]	18 May 2014	Minister of Home Affairs		Manmohan II		Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
16th	Narendra Modi नरेंद्र मोदी (born 1950) MP for Varanasi	26 May 2014	24 May 2019	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	Narendra Modi नरेंद्र मोदी (born 1950) MP for Varanasi	30 May 2019	Incumbent		Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi II	Self	Om Birla (2019–present)

List of Deputy Leader of the House in Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha	Name (born – died) Constituency		Term of office		Political party	Leader of the House		Speaker (Tenure)
16th		Rajnath Singh राजनाथ सिंह (born 1951) MP for Lucknow	26 May 2014	24 May 2019	Bharatiya Janata Party		Narendra Modi		Sumitra Mahajan (2014–2019)
17th		Rajnath Singh राजनाथ सिंह (born 1951) MP for Lucknow	30 May 2019	Incumbent	Bharatiya Janata Party		Narendra Modi		Om Birla (2019–present)

Notes

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.

References

"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.

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[2] During this period, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was member of Rajya Sabha.

[3] 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.

[4] During this period, Prime Ministers H. D. Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral were members of Rajya Sabha.

[5] During this period, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was member of Rajya Sabha.

[6] Sushilkumar Shinde became the Leader of the House in 2012 after the election of Pranab Mukherjee as the President of India.

[1] "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-7] "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.

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