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In May 2014, Modi was first elected PM when he led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections winning 282 seats in the Lower House. Five years later, he returned to power with an unprecedented 303 MPs.

Narendra Modi who took oath as prime minister for his second term in May 2019 is set to become the longest-serving non-Congress leader to occupy the office. With 2,272 continuous days in office as of Friday, Modi will match the record held by the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee who served in office for 2,272 days across three separate terms. On Saturday, he will surpass it.

In May 2014, Modi was first chosen PM when he drove the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to an avalanche triumph in the Lok Sabha races winning 282 seats in the Lower House. After five years, he came back to control with a remarkable 303 MPs.

Vajpayee who was first chosen PM in quite a while, in the office between May 16 and June 1, a residency that kept going 13 days. His subsequent spell came in 1998 when he was PM for 13 months between March 1998 and April 1999. This was trailed by a five-year term somewhere in the range of 1999 and 2004. While Vajpayee surrendered on May 27, 1996, after his 13-day spell, and in the wake of conveying perhaps the best addresses Parliament has ever heard, his replacement Deve Gowda was confirmed uniquely on June 1. In fact, Vajpayee was the overseer PM for those days, a reality a few estimations of his residency disregard.

Other than Vajpayee and Modi, PMs with long residency incorporate India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who expected office on August 15, 1947, remained in the seat till May 27, 1964, a sum of 6,130 days or very nearly 17 years. His girl Indira Gandhi who initially expected office on January 24, 1966, proceeded till March 24, 1977; she returned as PM on January 14, 1980, and proceeded till her death on October 31, 1984. She was in the office for 5,829 days. Dr. Manmohan Singh was PM for a long time between May 22, 2004, and May 26, 2014, a sum of 3,656 days. At that point come Modi and Vajpayee.

On Modi’s term, BJP national VP Vinay Sahasrabuddhe said his administration has left a permanent blemish on the country just as administration. “A few PMs left a blemish on the country while others on administration. He has made a blemish on both.”

Congress representative Jaiveer Shergill stated, “Head administrator Modi will be associated with setting frightening, disillusioning and country harming records.” “He is the main Prime Minister to give the ridiculous endowment of most noteworthy joblessness, giving a clean chit to land grabber China separated from being the modeler of greatest and most alarming monetary fiasco existent in India,” Shergill included.

Abhay Deshpande, a political reporter, stated, “He’s taken the BJP from a gathering with a broke order to a gathering with a reasonable command. It is clear he will be in a situation to make a record for being the longest-serving non-Congress PM.”