PM Modi breaks Indira Gandhi’s record to emerge as the 2nd-longest serving PM of India
PM Modi breaks Indira Gandhi’s record to emerge as the 2nd-longest serving
PM of India
Born in Independent India Narendra Modi at 74, is the first prime minister sworn-in for the third consecutive term in June last year.
PM Modi on Friday will emerge as the second-longest serving premier in consecutive terms, completing 4,078 straight days in office, surpassing Indira Gandhi’s uninterrupted tenure amid 1964 and 1977, and only behind the country’s first
PM Jawaharlal Nehru.
He was sworn for the third consecutive term in June last year, having first entered the top office on May 26, 2014.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader is also the longest-serving PM from a non-Congress party.
On July 25, PM Modi completes 4,078 days in office in three straight terms. “On this day, he (Modi) will become the second longest consecutive serving PM of India, surpassing Indira Gandhi, who was the PM consecutively for 4,077 days, from January 24, 1966 till March 24, 1977.
Indira Gandhi had also been PM from January 14, 1980 until her assassination on October 31, 1984. Her father Jawaharlal Nehru remains the longest-serving PM of India, having been in the office for 16 years and 286 days from August 15, 1947 till May 27, 1964.
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