On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached 4,078 days in office, breaking the mark set by the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who led the nation for 4,077 days in a row from January 24, 1966, to March 24, 1977. This entails serving as India’s prime minister for a single, continuous term.
With this achievement, PM Modi surpasses Jawaharlal Nehru, the nation’s first prime minister, as the prime minister with the second-longest tenure in Indian history.
On July 25, 2025, PM Narendra Modi will have served in office for 4,078 days in a row. He also has a number of historic distinctions.
The longest-serving non-Congress PM, the first and only prime minister born after independence, and the longest-serving prime minister from a state that does not speak Hindi is Prime Minister Modi.
As the only non-Congress Prime Minister to win a majority in the Lok Sabha by himself, he is also the first and only non-Congress leader to have served two full terms and to have been re-elected twice with a majority.
He is also the first prime minister to retake office with a full majority since Indira Gandhi in 1971.
With the exception of the late Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister Modi is the only Indian leader of a political party to win three straight elections.
Among all Indian prime ministers and chief ministers, he is the only one to lead a party to victory in six straight elections: Gujarat in 2002, 2007, 2012, and the Lok Sabha in 2014, 2019, and 2024.
This will be another milestone in PM Modi’s almost 24 years as head of a democratically-elected administration, either in the state or Centre.
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister, holds the record for the longest tenure. Similar to Nehru, PM Modi has guided his party to victory in three straight Lok Sabha elections.
Before advancing through the ranks of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and then the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Narendra Modi, who was born into a modest family in Vadnagar, Gujarat, assisted his father in selling tea at a railway station.
Before guiding the BJP to a historic national win in 2014, PM Modi, who is well-known for his strong communication skills and grassroots connections, led Gujarat as chief minister for more than ten years. Since then, he has established himself as a significant world leader, portraying India as a strong, self-assured voice on the international scene.
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