Modi equals Nehru’s record as PM for third consecutive term

LAHORE: Narendra Damodardas Modi, leader of the Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), took oath on Sunday for a third straight term as the head of a coalition government, along with 72 ministers, including the likes of Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, J P Nadda and others.

Going turn 74 on September 17 this year, Modi is the only leader after former premier, Jawaharlal Nehru, who has been elected for a third consecutive term after completing the full tenure of each previous term.

Here follows a list of 14 Indian premiers till date with tenure lengths in brackets:

Jawaharlal Nehru (16 years, 286 days), Gulzarilal Nanda (13 days), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1 year, 216 days), Gulzarilal Nanda (13 days), Indira Gandhi (11 years, 59 days), Morarji Desai (2 years, 126 days), Charan Singh (170 days), Indira Gandhi (4 years, 291 days), Rajiv Gandhi (5 years, 32 days), Vishwanath Pratap Singh (343 days), Chandra Shekhar (223 days), Narasimha Rao (4 years, 330 days), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (16 days), Dev Gowda (324 days), Inder Kumar Gujral (332 days), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (6 years, 64 days), Manmohan Singh (10 years, 4 days) and Narendra Modi (10 years, 14 days).