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[a] Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first prime minister, serving as prime minister of the Dominion of India from 15 August 1947 until 26 January 1950, and thereafter of the Republic of India until his death in May 1964. (India conducted its first post-independence general elections in 1952).
Manmohan Singh (Punjabi: [mənˈmoːɦən ˈsɪ́ŋɡ] ⓘ; born 26 September 1932) is an Indian politician, economist, academician, and bureaucrat who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi.
The following is a list of the longest-serving ministers of the Union Council of Ministers of India, listing those individuals who served at least a decade in Union ministries. As of November 2024, 83 Union ministers have served for at least 10 years in office, including 18 who served for 15 years or more and five who served for at least 20 years.
As Modi rose to prominence in India, the UK [167] and the EU [168] lifted their bans in October 2012 and March 2013, respectively, and after his election as prime minister in 2014, the US lifted its ban and invited him to Washington, D.C. [169] [170] Modi meeting with then-Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh in 2004
List of longest-serving governors of U.S. states; List of secretaries of state of the United States; List of Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by time in office; List of United States federal judges by longevity of service; List of presidents of the United States by time in office; List of United States Supreme Court justices by ...
Jagjivan Ram (5 April 1908 – 6 July 1986), [1] known popularly as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician from Bihar.He was instrumental in the foundation of the All India Depressed Classes League, an organisation dedicated to attaining equality for dalits, in 1935 and was elected to Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1937, after which he organised the rural labour movement.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: 9 June 1980 24 December 1987 44 Nripen Chakraborty: Tripura: 5 January 1978 5 February 1988 10 years, 31 days Communist Party of India (Marxist) 45 Vasundhara Raje: Rajasthan: 8 December 2003 12 December 2008 10 years, 8 days Bharatiya Janata Party: 13 December 2013 17 December 2018 46 Digvijaya Singh ...
The longest-serving male president ever was Malietoa Tanumafili II of Samoa, who held the office of O le Ao o le Malo for a special lifetime term (in derogation from the normal term length of five years), for 45 years and 130 days overall; first alongside Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole from 1962 to 1963 and then as sole head of state from 1963 to 2007.