Editing Prime Minister of India (section)

=== Party affiliation ===
{{See also|List of prime ministers of India}}
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" |Party
!PMs
!{{Abbr|Years in PMO|Total years these parties held PMO}}
!Name(s)
![[Political alliance|Alliance]]
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Indian National Congress}};" |
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| style="text-align: center;" |6{{Efn|name=56o}}
|54 years
|[[Jawaharlal Nehru]], [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]], [[Indira Gandhi]], [[Rajiv Gandhi]], [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]] and [[Manmohan Singh]]{{Efn|name=56o}}
|{{ubl|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]], [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] and [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI (M)]] (1969–1971)|[[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]] (1971–1976)|[[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|AIADMK]] (1991–1994)|[[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]] (2004–2014)}}
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}};" |
|'''[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]'''
| style="text-align: center;" |2
|'''16 years'''
|[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] and '''[[Narendra Modi]]'''
|[[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]] (from 1998)
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Janata Dal}};" |
|[[Janata Dal]]
| style="text-align: center;" |3
|2 years
|[[Vishwanath Pratap Singh]], [[H. D. Deve Gowda]] and [[Inder Kumar Gujral]]
| [[National Front (India)|NF]] (1989–1990) [[United Front (India, 1996)|UF]] (1996–1998)
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Janata Party}};" |
|[[Janata Party]]
| style="text-align: center;" |1
|2 years
|[[Morarji Desai]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Janata Party|JP]]
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Janata Party (Secular)}};" |
|[[Janata Party (Secular)]]
| style="text-align:  center;" |1
|<1 years
|[[Charan Singh]]
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)}}; " |
| nowrap="" |[[Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)]]
| style="text-align: center;" |1
|<1 years
|[[Chandra Shekhar]]
| JP 
External support from [[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|}