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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday congratulated India’s “longest-serving” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, calling him a “strong, healthy and wise man”.
Prime Minister Modi on Wednesday became India’s longest-serving prime minister, completing 4,399 consecutive days in office, surpassing the record held by the country’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
“Congratulations to my friend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on becoming India’s longest serving Prime Minister – and it’s great,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently became India’s longest-serving Prime Minister by completing 4,399 consecutive days in office, surpassing Jawaharlal Nehru’s previous record.
BJP leaders offered special prayers to celebrate PM Modi’s milestone of becoming the longest serving Prime Minister, wishing him long life and good health.
Donald Trump congratulated Narendra Modi on the Truth Social, calling him a “strong, healthy, wise man” and expressing confidence in his continued greatness and success.
The union cabinet resolution praised Modi’s leadership for enhancing national security, empowering marginalized sections and achieving significant public support, marking his historic 4,399 days in office.
Yes, the cabinet has expressed full confidence that under Modi’s leadership, India will reach new heights and aim to become a developed country by 2047.
“He is a strong, healthy and wise man and will have many years of greatness and success ahead of him,” he added.
BJP leaders perform special prayers for PM Modi
To mark the occasion, BJP leaders across the country, including ministers, MPs and MLAs, organized ‘Havana’ ceremonies and offered special prayers for Modi’s long life and good health as he completed 12 years in office and achieved the milestone of becoming India’s longest continuously serving Prime Minister.
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BJP National President Nitin Nabin offered prayers at the Delhi Jhandewala Temple, joined by Delhi BJP chief Harsh Malhotra, MP Bansuri Swaraj and several other party leaders.
Union ministers JP Nadda, Piyush Goyal, Jitendra Singh and Dharmendra Pradhan also performed religious rituals at various temples in the state capital.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta visited North Delhi’s Kishanganj Gaushala and offered prayers at the temple there.
In a post on X, Nabin mentioned, “On the historic occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi becoming the longest serving elected Prime Minister, today I visited the famous Jhandewalan Devi Temple in New Delhi and performed ritual worship of Goddess Adishakti Maa Bhagwati.
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“On this auspicious occasion, I respectfully bowed my head at the feet of the Goddess and prayed for the long life and good health of the Hon’ble Prime Minister,” he said.
BJP workers in Maharashtra held special prayers at various temples across the state. A grand ‘maha aarti’ was held at the 125-year-old Shri Gavdevi temple in Thane’s Naupada area, offering prayers for long life, good health and a prosperous future for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP corporator Sanjay Waghule said.
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In Odisha too, BJP leaders and workers performed rituals at several temples to mark the occasion. BJP state president and MP Manmohan Samal offered a ‘dipa’ (lamp) at the Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar and led prayers for good health and longevity for the prime minister.
PM Modi, Kharge exchange war of words
PM Modi criticized the Congress, saying that the slow economic growth during his rule was misleadingly called “Hindu Growth Rate” when it should actually be called “Congress Growth Rate” due to what he described as lack of governance.
He also said that one of the major achievements of the NDA government since 2014 was freeing the country from the “vicious trap” of the Congress. Modi added that citizens have realized the value of political stability and strong, decisive leadership.
“The nation was conditioned to believe that development in India was inevitably at a slow pace and rapid growth was simply not possible. With great cunning, this slow growth was labeled ‘Hindu Growth Rate’, suggesting that while the style, responsibility and failure were all Congress, the stigma was attached to the country’s huge Hindu population,” Modi said.
“It should have been called ‘Congress Growth Rate’. This ‘Congress Growth Rate’ was characterized by a total absence of governance, policy, purpose and decisiveness,” the Prime Minister said.
He added, “Unfortunately in 2004, the country was once again caught in a cycle of instability,” he said, referring to the Congress-led UPA rule from 2004-2014.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on the opposition, saying that “distorting history” cannot change facts and accused the NDA government of promoting “event management and manufactured stories” instead of real achievements.
Kharge further alleged that for the past 12 years, the Modi-led government has focused only on slogans and publicity while burdening the public with rising inflation, unemployment and corruption.
“India’s longest serving Prime Minister was Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He was also the longest serving Prime Minister. Smt. Indira Gandhi was the second longest serving Prime Minister,” Kharge wrote on X.
“Now the BJP has to invent a new and ridiculous category to prove who was the ‘longest serving PM continuously since the first general election of independent India’!” he said.
“Remind the country too – in whose cabinet was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel the Deputy Prime Minister? In whose cabinet was Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar the Law Minister? In whose cabinet was Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee as Minister?” added Kharge.
