Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday became the second-longest-serving prime minister, surpassing Indira Gandhi’s tenure by a day.
On July 25, 2025, Modi completes 4,078 days in office, surpassing Indira Gandhi’s record of 4,077 consecutive days as Prime Minister from January 24 1966, to March 24, 1977.
Apart from surpassing Indira Gandhi’s record to become the second-longest serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Modi also holds several historic distinctions.
He is the first and only Prime Minister to be born in independent India, the longest-serving non-Congress PM, and the longest-serving PM from a non-Hindi-speaking state.
He is also the first and only non-Congress leader to have completed two full consecutive terms and been re-elected twice with a majority, making him the only non-Congress leader to secure a majority on his own in the Lok Sabha.
Modi is also the first sitting PM since Indira Gandhi in 1971 to return to power with a full majority.
Apart from Nehru, Modi is the only PM to win three consecutive elections as the leader of a party. Among all the Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers in the country, he is the only one to win six consecutive elections as the leader of a party.
He first won the elections in Gujarat in 2002, and subsequently won the assembly elections in Gujarat in 2007 and 2012. In 2014, he won the Lok Sabha elections for the first time – from Varanasi – beginning his term as the Prime Minister of India. Modi was re-elected as the Prime Minister in 2019 and again in 2024.
