NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the longest-serving elected premier in India’s history, the government said on Wednesday as he crossed the record first set by the country’s founding Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Modi is marking 4,399 consecutive days in office since he took his first oath as India’s premier on May 26, 2014, surpassing Nehru’s 4,398-day tenure as an elected prime minister.
Though Nehru’s premiership is widely recognized since India gained independence in 1947, Modi’s achievement is counted from the country’s first national elections in 1952.
“Public service is the greatest measure of good governance,” Modi said in an X post on Wednesday.
“It is only the individual who works tirelessly with humility, dedication, and a sense of duty who earns the trust of the people.”
