PM Modi On Completing 12 Years Milestone: Public Service Biggest Test Of Good Governance

BJP leaders on Wednesday greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for becoming India's longest-serving elected prime minister and praised his leadership over the past 12 years.

PM Modi, who was first elected in 2014, has become the longest-serving prime minister, with an unbroken tenure of 4,399 days in office, surpassing the record of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Nehru, who was first elected to the post in 1952, took the oath of office on May 13 and served until May 27, 1964 -- a tenure of 4,398 days. His previous stint from 1947-52 was as head of an interim government, as elections were yet to be institutionalised and held.