Narendra Modi today became India’s longest continuously serving elected Prime Minister, breaking Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s 4,398-day record. Modi has already completed 12 years as Prime Minister. It will be interesting to understand why Modi’s record as PM is significant compared to that of Jawaharlal Nehru. Pandit Nehru hailed from a prominent political family, while Modi’s family had no connection whatsoever with active politics. Jawaharlal Nehru’s father was a prominent lawyer. He studied in London’s Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge and became a barrister after studying law at the Inner Temple.