Leader of the House in Lok Sabha

Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
Lok Sabhā Me 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 of the Majority Party
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	vacant
Salary	₹330,000 (US$4,000); (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 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	Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) MP for Phulpur	13 May 1952	4 April 1957	12 years, 14 days	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 (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	27 May 1964	9 June 1964	13 days	Acting Prime Minister Minister of Home Affairs Minister of External Affairs		Nanda I	Self
	Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) MP for Allahabad	9 June 1964	11 January 1966^[†]	1 year, 216 days	Prime Minister		Shastri	Self
	Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	11 January 1966	24 January 1966	13 days	Acting Prime Minister Minister of Home Affairs		Nanda II	Self
	Satya Narayan Sinha^[a] (1900–1983) MP for Darbhanga	14 February 1966	3 March 1967	1 year, 17 days	Minister of Parliamentary Affairs		Indira I	Indira Gandhi
4th	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Rae Bareli	14 March 1967	27 December 1970	3 years, 288 days	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 (1896–1995) MP for Surat	23 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 127 days	Prime Minister Minister of Finance (1977, 1979) Minister of Home Affairs (1978–1979)	Janata Party	Desai	Self	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1977)
	Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat	23 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 127 days		Janata Party	Desai	Self	K. S. Hegde (1977–1980)
	Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat	28 July 1979	22 August 1979	25 days	Prime Minister	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan	Self	K. S. Hegde (1977–1980)
7th	Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Medak	10 January 1980	31 October 1984^[†]	4 years, 295 days	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 (1944–1991) MP for Amethi	31 October 1984	31 December 1984	61 days	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1984–1985, 1987–1988) Minister of Defence (1985–1987) Minister of Finance (1987)		Rajiv	Self
8th	Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi	31 December 1984	27 November 1989	4 years, 331 days			Rajiv	Self
9th	Vishwanath Pratap Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	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 (1927–2007) MP for Ballia	10 November 1990	13 March 1991	123 days	Prime Minister Minister of External Affairs (1990)	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Self	Rabi Ray (1989–1991)
10th	Arjun Singh^[b] (1930–2011) MP for Satna	10 July 1991	20 November 1991	133 days	Minister of Education	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Shivraj Patil (1991–1996)
10th	P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal	6 December 1991	10 May 1996	4 years, 156 days	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 (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	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^[c] (1946–2020) MP for Hajipur	11 June 1996	4 December 1997	1 year, 176 days	Minister of Railways Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (1996)	Janata Dal	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
	Ram Vilas Paswan^[c] (1946–2020) MP for Hajipur	11 June 1996	4 December 1997	Gujral		Janata Dal	Inder Kumar Gujral
12th	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow	19 March 1998	26 April 1999	1 year, 38 days	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	4 years, 116 days			Vajpayee III		G. M. C. Balayogi (1998–1999, 1999–2002)
13th		13 October 1999	6 February 2004	4 years, 116 days			Vajpayee III		Manohar Joshi (2002–2004)
14th	Pranab Mukherjee^[d] (1935–2020) MP for Jangipur	25 May 2004	18 May 2009	4 years, 358 days	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	Pranab Mukherjee^[d] (1935–2020) MP for Jangipur	3 June 2009	26 June 2012	3 years, 23 days			Manmohan II		Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
15th	Sushilkumar Shinde^[e] (born 1941) MP for Solapur	3 August 2012^[2]	18 May 2014	1 year, 288 days	Minister of Home Affairs		Manmohan II		Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
16th	Narendra Modi (born 1950) MP for Varanasi	26 May 2014	24 May 2019	10 years, 187 days	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	Meira Kumar (born 1945) MP for Sasaram	23 May 2004	22 May 2009	4 years, 364 days	Indian National Congress	Pranab Mukherjee	Somnath Chatterjee (2004–2009)
15th	Sushilkumar Shinde (born 1941) MP for Solapur	28 May 2009	31 July 2012	3 years, 64 days		Pranab Mukherjee	Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
15th	Mallikarjun Kharge (born 1941) MP for Gulbarga	31 July 2012	18 May 2014	1 year, 291 days		Sushilkumar Shinde	Meira Kumar (2009–2014)
16th	Gopinath Munde (1949–2014) MP for Beed	26 May 2014	3 June 2014	8 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Narendra Modi	Sumitra Mahajan (2014–2019)
16th	Sushma Swaraj (1952–2019) MP for Vidisha	4 June 2014	24 May 2019	4 years, 354 days			Sumitra Mahajan (2014–2019)
17th	Rajnath Singh^[3] (born 1951) MP for Lucknow	30 May 2019	4 June 2024	5 years, 5 days			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.
^ "BJP appoints PM Narendra Modi the leader of the Lok Sabha, Rajnath Singh his deputy". Scroll.in. 12 June 2019.

[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.

[8] "BJP appoints PM Narendra Modi the leader of the Lok Sabha, Rajnath Singh his deputy". Scroll.in. 12 June 2019.

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