Leader of the House (Rajya Sabha)

Leader of the House
Emblem of India
Incumbent Arun Jaitley since 26 May 2014
Member of	Rajya Sabha
Formation	May 1952
First holder	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar

The Leader of the House is a Rajya Sabha member who is either a cabinet minister or another nominated minister. The Leader has a seat next to the Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, in the front row.

The following individuals have held the office of the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha:

No.	Name	Portrait	Took office	Left office
1	N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar	100px	May 1952	Feb. 1953
2	Charu Chandra Biswas		Feb. 1953	Nov. 1954
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri		Nov. 1954	March 1955
4	Govind Ballabh Pant		March 1955	Feb. 1961
5	Hafiz Mohammad Ibrahim		Feb. 1961	Aug. 1963
6	Yashwantrao Chavan	100px	Aug. 1963	Dec. 1963
7	Jaisukhlal Hathi		Feb. 1964	March 1964
8	Mahomadali Currim Chagla		March 1964	Nov. 1967
9	Jaisukhlal Hathi		Nov. 1967	Nov. 1969
10	Kodradas Kalidas Shah		Nov. 1969	May 1971
11	Uma Shankar Dikshit		May 1971	Dec. 1975
12	Kamlapati Tripathi		Dec. 1975	March 1977
13	L. K. Advani		March 1977	Aug. 1979
14	K.C. Pant		Aug. 1979	Jan. 1980
15	Pranab Mukherjee		January 1980	July 1981
			August 1981	December 1984
16	V. P. Singh		Dec. 1984	April 1987
17	Narayan Dutt Tiwari		April 1987	June 1988
18	P. Shiv Shankar		July 1988	Dec. 1989
19	M. S. Gurupadaswamy	100px	Dec. 1989	Nov. 1990
20	Yashwant Sinha		Dec. 1990	June 1991
21	Shankarrao Chavan	100px	July 1991	April 1996
22	Sikander Bakht		20 May 1996	31 May 1996
23	Inder Kumar Gujral		June 1996	Nov. 1996
24	H.D. Deve Gowda		Nov. 1996	April 1997
25	Inder Kumar Gujral		April 1997	March 1998
26	Sikander Bakht		March 1998	Oct. 1999
27	Jaswant Singh		13 October 1999	22 May 2004
28	Manmohan Singh		1 June 2004	18 May 2009
			29 May 2009	26 May 2014
29	Arun Jaitley		26 May 2014	incumbent

See also

• Leader of the Opposition (India)
• Leader of the Lok Sabha

External links

• Leaders of the House

• http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/whoswho/former_leader_of_house.asp