TNPSC Thervupettagam

2nd Longest Serving PM

July 29 , 2025 11 hrs 0 min 39 0
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed 4,078 consecutive days in office on July 25, 2025.
  • He has surpassed the record of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who served 4,077 consecutive days from January 24, 1966, to March 24, 1977.
  • Modi is now the second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister in India's history, after Jawaharlal Nehru.
  • Jawaharlal Nehru served uninterrupted as Prime Minister from August 15, 1947, to May 27, 1964.
  • Narendra Modi is the first and the only Prime Minister born after Independence (August 15, 1947).
  • He is the longest-serving non-Indian National Congress (INC) Prime Minister.
  • He is also the longest-serving Prime Minister from a non-Hindi-speaking state.
  • Modi is the only non-INC leader to complete two full terms and to be re-elected twice with a clear majority in the Lok Sabha.
  • Modi is the only Prime Minister, apart from Jawaharlal Nehru, to win three consecutive general elections as the leader of a political party.
  • He is the only Indian leader, among all Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers, to win six consecutive elections as party leader — Gujarat Assembly elections in 2002, 2007, and 2012, and Lok Sabha elections in 2014, 2019, and 2024.
  • Modi served as Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 before leading the BJP to a national victory in 2014.

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