Prime Minister Narendra Modi has surpassed former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on Friday to become the second-longest-serving PM of India in consecutive terms.
PM Modi, officials told news agency PTI, completes 4,078 days in office on Friday. Former PM Indira Gandhi was in the office in an unbroken stint for 4,077 days, from January 24, 1966, to March 24, 1977.
The record for the unbroken stint is held by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Narendra Modi has matched Nehru in leading their respective parties to victory in three consecutive Lok Sabha elections.
As an elected head of a government, in state and at the Centre, Narendra Modi already enjoys the longest stint.
He became Gujarat chief minister in 2001 and remained in the office before taking over as prime minister in 2014.
Modi, the first prime minister born after Independence, is also the longest-serving PM who is not from Congress.
The officials noted that the Gujarat-born leader is also the only non-Congress leader to complete two full terms as the head of the central government.
“Modi is the only leader in India, among all PMs and CMs, to win six consecutive elections as the leader of a party—in Gujarat assembly polls in 2002, 2007, and 2012, and in the national elections in 2014, 2019, and 2024," an official was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
Born into a modest family in Vadnagar, Gujarat, Narendra Modi helped his father sell tea at a railway station before rising through the ranks of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and later the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Known for his grassroots connect and strong communication style, Modi served as Gujarat’s chief minister for over a decade before leading the BJP to a historic national victory in 2014. Since then, he has positioned himself as a key global leader, projecting India as a confident, assertive voice on the world stage.
Source: News18
