Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday marked a milestone in the country’s political history, becoming the second-longest-serving PM of India (4,078 days) in consecutive terms, surpassing the record of former PM Indira Gandhi (4,077 days) .
Narendra Modi, 74, took oath as Prime Minister for the first time on May 26, 2014 and has served a total of 11 years and 60 days in office till date.
The erstwhile Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had served for 11 years 59 days in office in consecutive terms. She held the highest office as Prime Minister of India from January 24, 1966 – March 24, 1977.
India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru holds the record of the longest-serving PM of India in consecutive terms for 16 years and 286 days, from August 15, 1947 to May 27, 1964.
Notably, PM Modi is the first and only Prime Minister born after Independence, the longest-serving non-Congress PM, and the longest-serving Prime Minister from a non-Hindi-speaking state.
He is also the first and only non-Congress leader to have completed two full terms and to be re-elected twice with a majority, making him the only non-Congress Prime Minister to secure a majority on his own in the Lok Sabha.
Additionally, he is the first sitting Prime Minister since Indira Gandhi in 1971 to return to power with a full majority.
Narendra Modi is the only Prime Minister, apart from late Jawaharlal Nehru, to win three consecutive elections as leader of a political party in India.
He is the only leader in India, among all Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers, to win six consecutive elections as the leader of a party – Gujarat (2002, 2007, 2012), Lok Sabha polls (2014, 2019, 2024).
This will be another milestone in PM Modi’s almost 24 years as head of a democratically elected government, either in the state or Centre.
(With agency inputs)