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On Tuesday, June 4, Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India for the third straight time after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition secured a majority win with 293 seats in the national general elections. The 73-year-old won his Lok Sabha seat in Varanasi on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket, becoming the Member of Parliament (MP) once again.
Narendra Modi, who is the third longest-serving Prime Minister in the history of independent India, headed the government for the first-time in 2014 after the NDA coalition won 336 seats. Five years after that, the Vadnagar-born politician came back to power with the NDA coalition securing 353 seats in the Indian Parliament.
During his third term, Narendra Modi will be in line to get past Indira Gandhi in terms of longest-serving Prime Minister of India, getting in second place behind Jawaharlal Nehru. Notably, he is also the longest-serving Indian PM, who rose to power without the Indian National Congress (INC).
Notably, in the last three Indian general elections, Narendra Modi and BJP have formed the first non-Congress single party government in majority. Furthermore, the 14th Prime Minister of India, who is best known for modernising the country in the past decade, hasn’t lost an election in his illustrious political career.
