Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday marked a major milestone in the history of the country, which became the second longest serving PM in India, consecutively crossing the record of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
In particular, he is the first non-Congress Prime Minister to mark this achievement. Additionally, Narendra Modi is the first Prime Minister born after independence and serves the longest time from a non-Hindi state.
74 -year -old Narendra Modi was sworn in 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 then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi served the post for 11 years 59 days. He held the highest position as Prime Minister of India from 24 January 1966 – 24 March 1977.
Former and first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has kept the record of the longest Prime Minister of India for the longest serving of India for 16 years and 286 days from August 15, 1947 to May 27, 1964.
The first Prime Minister, born after India’s independence, Prime Minister Modi has served as the Prime Minister of India from 2014 to 2019 and 2019 to 2024.
He also has the distinction of being the longest Chief Minister of Gujarat with his tenure from October 2001 to May 2014.
In the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections, PM Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party, which was to win the Lok Sabha, winning an absolute majority on both occasions. The last time a political party secured such an absolute majority, in the 1984 elections in which the Congress won a landslide.
The Prime Minister Modi-Left government has also taken several notable decisions during its tenure, including cancellation of Article 370, elimination of triple talaq, construction of Ram Janambomi Temple in Ayodhya, Waqf Amendment Act, etc.
Inspired by the motivated sentence of ‘Saba Sixty, Saba Vikas, Saba Viswas’, Prime Minister Modi has started a paradigm change in governance, which has led to inclusive, development-oriented and corruption-free rule. The Prime Minister has worked with speed and scale to feel the purpose of Antyodaya, or has ensured the final-mile distribution of plans and services.
Prominent international agencies have mentioned that under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, India is ending poverty at a record pace. According to the findings of Niti Aayog’s latest report ‘Multi Poverty in India’ since 2005-06, around 250 million people survived multidimensional poverty in the last nine years. The credit for this remarkable achievement goes on an important initiative of the government to address all the dimensions of poverty. (AI)
