Narendra Modi becomes longest continuously serving elected Prime Minister

Key facts

• Narendra Modi becomes the elected Prime Minister with the longest continuous tenure of 4,399 days on June 10, surpassing the record of Jawaharlal Nehru.
• He is the first Prime Minister since Nehru to secure three consecutive mandates, having first taken oath on May 26, 2014.
• He served as the youngest Chief Minister of Gujarat at the age of 51 without being a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).
• He led the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured a majority on its own for the first time.
• Welfare achievements include the construction of over 12 crore individual household toilets under Swachh Bharat, building over 4 crore houses for the poor, and opening over 57 crore bank accounts under JAM.
• Financial and digital milestones include ₹45 lakh crore transferred via Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), LPG connections for over 10 crore women, and over 24,000 crore digital transactions through Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
• Health and social initiatives include providing food support to 80 crore people during the Covid-19 pandemic and establishing Ayushman Bharat as the world's largest publicly funded health programme.
• Policy and security measures include the abrogation of Article 370, abolition of triple talaq, introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms, 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state assemblies, surgical strikes, and Operation Sindoor.