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New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) On June 10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who first took oath of office on May 26, 2014, will complete 4,399 consecutive days in office, surpassing India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of 4,398 days and becoming the country’s longest-serving elected Prime Minister.Some of the toughest decisions among several changes in terms of policy taken by the Modi government were in the realm of national security. Under its watch, home-grown terror groups such as the Ind…

New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) This day, exactly 12 years ago, India stepped into a new political era as Narendra Modi took oath as the 15th Prime Minister of the country at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The day was significant because on May 26, 2014, he led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a 282-seat victory, crossing the majority mark in the 543-member Lok Sabha. It marked the first time in three decades that a single party secured an outright majority in the Lok Sabha. It wa…

Gandhinagar, March 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the longest-serving head of an elected government in the country, completing 8,931 days in office across his tenures as Gujarat Chief Minister and Prime Minister, state BJP president Jagdish Vishwakarma said on Thursday.Addressing a press conference at the party’s state headquarters in Gandhinagar, Vishwakarma said the milestone surpasses the 8,930-day record of former Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling.He added that …