Leader of the House (Lok Sabha)

Leader of the House, Lok Sabha, the Lower House of the Indian Parliament, is the Prime Minister by default if they are a member of the Lok Sabha. The Leader of the House serves as the parliamentary chairperson of the majority party in the house. If the Prime Minister is not a member of the Lower House of Parliament, they can nominate another minister as the Leader of the House.[1]

Leader of the House, Lok Sabha
Emblem of India
Incumbent
Narendra Modi
since 26 May 2014
Member ofLok Sabha
Reports toParliament of India
FormationMay 1952
First holderJawaharlal Nehru
(1952–1964)

List
No. Name Portrait Took office Left office
1Jawaharlal Nehru2 April 19524 April 1957
5 April 195731 March 1962
2 April 196227 May 1964
2Gulzarilal Nanda27 May 19649 June 1964
3Lal Bahadur Shastri9 June 196411 January 1966
(2)Gulzarilal Nanda11 January 196624 January 1966
4Satya Narayan Sinha [Note 1] – 24 January 19663 March 1967
5Indira Gandhi4 March 196727 December 1970
15 March 197118 January 1977
6Morarji Desai24 March 197728 August 1979
7Charan Singh28 August 197914 January 1980
(5)Indira Gandhi14 January 198031 October 1984
8Rajiv Gandhi31 October 198427 September 1989
9V. P. Singh2 December 198910 November 1990
10Chandra Shekhar10 November 199013 March 1991
11Arjun Singh [Note 2]9 July 19915 December 1991
12P. V. Narasimha Rao6 December 199110 May 1996
13Atal Bihari Vajpayee16 May 199631 May 1996
14Ram Vilas Paswan [Note 3]4 June 19964 December 1997
(13)Atal Bihari Vajpayee19 March 199826 April 1999
13 October 19996 February 2004
15Pranab Mukherjee [Note 4]22 May 200426 June 2012
16Sushilkumar Shinde [Note 4] [Note 5]3 August 201218 May 2014
17Narendra Modi26 May 2014Incumbent

Footnotes
    1) ^ During this period, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was member of Rajya Sabha.
    2) ^ During the time gap in between Chandra Shekhar's resignation and election of P. V. Narasimha Rao, the leader of the house was Arjun Singh.
    3) ^ During this period, Prime Ministers H. D. Deve Gowda and I. K. Gujral were members of Rajya Sabha.
    4) ^ During this period, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was member of Rajya Sabha.
    5) ^ After Pranab Mukherjee was elected as the President of India, Sushilkumar Shinde took over as the Leader of House.[2]

    See also

    References
    1. "Lok Sabha". /legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
    2. "Sushilkumar Shinde takes over as leader of the House in Lok Sabha". The Times of India. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
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