Prime Minister Narendra Modi has broken Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of serving as Prime Minister for the longest period in independent India. He has become the country’s longest serving Prime Minister. He took oath as Prime Minister on 9 June 2024 in the third term of NDA and today he has completed 12 years in power. Prime Minister Modi took oath as the Prime Minister for the first time on 26 May 2014 and today till 9 June 2026, 4,398 days of his tenure have been completed. Now he has become the Prime Minister who has held the post of Prime Minister for the longest time.
The first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru took the oath of office for the first time on 13 May 1952. Nehru held office as Prime Minister for 4,397 consecutive days, i.e. 12 years and 14 days. On June 9, Prime Minister Modi broke Nehru’s record of serving as Prime Minister for the longest period. Narendra Modi has completed 4,398 days, i.e. 12 years and 15 days, as the elected Prime Minister. Although Nehru became Prime Minister on 15 August 1947, he led an interim government for five years before the 1952 Lok Sabha elections. Till then Nehru had not won any election and achieved the post of Prime Minister.
Nehru served as Prime Minister from 1947 to 27 May 1964. Nehru’s total tenure is 6,130 days. However, he held the post of Prime Minister as the head of an interim government for about five years. On July 25, 2025, Prime Minister Modi broke the record of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s longest continuous Prime Ministerial tenure of 4,077 days.
Prime Minister Modi created history in March 2026. Including his two terms as Chief Minister of Gujarat and later as Prime Minister, he became the first Indian leader to remain in power for more than 8,931 days. He broke the record of former Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling (8,930 days).
Prime Minister Modi is the longest serving non-Congress leader in the history of India. He is the first non-Congress leader to lead the government by securing absolute majority for two consecutive terms and is now leading the NDA government for the third time.
In 2024, Narendra Modi became the second Prime Minister after Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to lead a coalition or party to victory in three consecutive Lok Sabha elections (2014, 2019 and 2024) and to take the oath of office for the third consecutive time. He is the first Prime Minister of India to be born after India’s independence (September 17, 1950). Therefore, he is the first Prime Minister to be born in independent India. All previous Prime Ministers were born before 1947.
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