Modi completes 2nd highest number of consecutive days as PM, breaks Indira Gandhi's record
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday completed the second-highest number of consecutive days in office, breaking Congress stalwart Indira Gandhi's record.
Modi completed 4,078 consecutive days in office, meaning in an uninterrupted run as the Prime Minister.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) top leader stormed into power in 2014 and he was re-elected twice in 2019 and 2024.
The 74-year-old is only behind India's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who remained in office for 16 years and 286 days uninterrupted.
The second Indian PM to be re-elected for a third straight term, Modi is also the longest serving non-Congress Prime Minister of the country.
Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Pandit Nehru, remained in office for 4,077 days uninterrupted from 1966-1977
The feisty leader returned to power in 1977 and continued till 1984 when she was assassinated.
Prior to his run as the PM, Modi was also the longest-serving Chief Minister of Gujarat, where he was at the helm from 2001 to 2014 when he resigned for the national role.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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