- Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-64)
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (1964-66)
- Indira Gandhi (1966-77, 1980-84)
- Morarji Desai (1977-79)
- Charan Singh (1979-80)
- Rajiv Gandhi (1984-89)
- V P Singh (1989-90)
- Chandra Shekhar (1990-91)
- P V Narasimha Rao (1991-96)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1996, 1998-2004)
- H D Deva Gowda (1996-97)
- I K Gujral (1997-98)
- Manmohan Singh (2004-14)
- Narendra Modi (2014- incumbent)