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In 1999, Vajpayee's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won the general election, the first non-Congress alliance to do so, and he served a full five-year term as prime minister. Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujral, and Vajpayee again for 19 months in 1998–99. Rao's five-year term was succeeded by four short-lived governments- Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 13 days in 1996, a year each under United Front prime ministers H. Narasimha Rao in June 1991, Rajiv Gandhi having been assassinated earlier that year. A seven-month interlude under prime minister Chandra Shekhar followed, after which the Congress party returned to power, forming the government under P. Īfter a general election loss, Rajiv Gandhi's five-year term ended his former cabinet colleague, Vishwanath Pratap Singh of the Janata Dal, formed the year-long National Front coalition government in 1989. Members of Nehru–Gandhi family have been prime minister for approximately 38 years. Her son Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as India's youngest premier. Her second term as prime minister ended five years later on 31 October 1984, when she was assassinated by her bodyguards. After Desai resigned in 1979, his former associate Charan Singh briefly held office until the Congress won the 1980 Indian general election and Indira Gandhi returned as prime minister. Eleven years later, her party the Indian National Congress lost the 1977 Indian general election to the Janata Party, whose leader Morarji Desai became the first non-Congress prime minister. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, succeeded Shastri in 1966 to become the country's first female prime minister. Earlier, Nehru had served as prime minister of the Interim Government of India in the British Raj from 2 September 1946 until 14 August 1947, his party, the Indian National Congress having won the 1946 Indian provincial elections.) Nehru was succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri, whose 1 year 7-month term ended in his death in Tashkent, then in the USSR, where he had signed the Tashkent Declaration between India and Pakistan. (India conducted its first general elections in 1952. Jawaharlal Nehru was the India's first prime minister, serving as prime minister of the Dominion of India from 15 August 1947 until 26 January 1950, and thereafter of the Republic of India until his death in May 1964. Since 1947 India has had 15 prime ministers. Appointed and sworn-in by the President, the prime minister is usually the leader of the party or alliance that has a majority in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament of India. In India's parliamentary system, the Constitution names the president as the head of state de jure, but his or her de facto executive powers are vested in the prime minister and their Council of Ministers. The Prime Minister (PM) is the chief executive of the government of India.