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PM Modi surpasses Indira Gandhi as India's 2nd longest serving Prime Minister
Punjab Times (English Edition)
|July 26, 2025
In the midst of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's UK and Maldives visits, the ruling BJP on Friday marked an important milestone, one of their leaders surpassing the late Indira Gandhi as India's second-longest-serving PM after Jawaharlal Nehru.
PM Modi will complete 4,078 consecutive days in office on Friday as per Parliament records, officially becoming the second longest-serving Prime Minister in India’s history, surpassing Indira Gandhi (4,077 days from 1966 to 1977). Taking to X, top BJP leaders hailed the "historic occasion." BJP said this stint of Modi marks a single, uninterrupted tenure as Prime Minister — a rare and remarkable achievement in Indian democracy. "But this is just one milestone in PM Modi’s nearly 24-year journey as the head of a democratically elected government at the st
This story is from the July 26, 2025 edition of Punjab Times (English Edition).
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