{"id":1054,"date":"2025-07-25T06:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:35:37","slug":"pm-narendra-modi-breaks-this-record-of-former-indira-gandhi-receives-a-grand-welcome-in-maldives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/25\/pm-narendra-modi-breaks-this-record-of-former-indira-gandhi-receives-a-grand-welcome-in-maldives\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Narendra Modi breaks this record of former Indira Gandhi, Receives a Grand Welcome in Maldives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"9fece8afa224fd09e54b043d0febfb58\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- NR ATF -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8898941184964366\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4839033563\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Honorable <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/07\/pm-modi-and-cuban-president-miguel-diaz-meet-on-sidelines-of-brics-summit-2025\/\">Narendra Modi<\/a>, 74, the first prime minister born in Independent India, was sworn-in as the leader of the country for the third consecutive term in June 2024. The Prime Minister accomplished a major feat on July 25, as he becomes India\u2019s second-longest serving prime minister in consecutive terms.<\/p>\n<p>He has officially completed <strong><em>4078<\/em><\/strong> straight days in office, surpassing the former PM Indira Gandhi\u2019s uninterrupted tenure between 1964 and 1977, and is now only behind the country\u2019s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru, who has been the longest serving leader till date.<\/p>\n<p>He first entered the top office on May 26, 2014. The <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/22\/after-jagdeep-dhankhars-resignation-hunt-for-the-new-vice-president-of-india-begins\/\">Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)<\/a> leader is also the longest-serving PM from a non-Congress party. The late Indira Gandhi had again served as the PM from January 14, 1980, until her assassination on October 31, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Her father Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru remains the longest-serving PM of India till date, having been in the office for <strong><em>16 years and 286 days<\/em><\/strong> from August 15, 1947, till May 27, 1964. Before becoming the PM, Modi was the longest-serving chief minister of Gujarat, having been in official position from 2001 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>He is the first and only non-Congress PM to complete at least two full terms as Prime Minister and to get re-elected thrice. He is also the first and only non-Congress leader to secure a majority on his own in a Lok Sabha election<\/em>,\u201d the PTI report stated.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the BJP stormed to power at the Centre with a brute majority of 272 seats, with Modi as the party\u2019s PM face. Five years later, the party improved its tally, winning 303 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats. Although the BJP fell short of reaching the half-way mark in 2024, it emerged as the single largest party and formed the government for a third straight term with support of its NDA partners.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/07\/23\/indias-sharp-response-to-pakistan-at-un-meet-gives-a-reality-check-on-terrorism\/\">PM Modi<\/a> is currently on an international tour to Maldives, where he was accorded a grand welcome by Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu along with key members of his cabinet &#8211;\u00a0including the foreign, defence, finance, and homeland security ministers. He arrived in Mal\u00e9, the capital city on Friday, after receiving an invitation for a two-day visit from Muizzu.<\/p>\n<p>According to India\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/2025\/05\/14\/operation-keller-the-new-mission-after-operation-sindoor\/\">current foreign secretary Vikram Misri<\/a>, this is the first state visit by a foreign head of government that President Muizzu is hosting since taking charge in November 2023. The visit is being viewed as a diplomatic breakthrough amidst a period of strained ties between\u00a0New Delhi and Mal\u00e9\u00a0under Muizzu\u2019s administration. PM Modi will be the guest of honour at the\u00a0Maldives&#8217; Independence Day celebrations on July 26 and is expected to inaugurate several India-assisted development projects during the visit.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honorable Narendra Modi, 74, the first prime minister born in Independent India, was sworn-in as the leader of the country for the third consecutive term&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[415,416,414,219],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-indira-gandhi","tag-jawahar-lal-nehru","tag-maldives","tag-narendra-modi","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}