Raghav Chadha Performs Special Pooja for PM Modi's Milestone

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NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Wednesday performed a special pooja at Rajinder Nagar to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi becoming India's longest continuously serving elected Prime Minister. On June 10, Modi completed 4,399 consecutive days in office, surpassing the 4,398 days of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to achieve the milestone. "History has been written today," Chadha posted on X. "Pause for a moment and reflect on what this truly means." The gesture comes just two months after Chadha defected to the BJP in April 2026, ending his 14-year association with the AAP. He was formerly an outspoken member of the AAP from 2012 to 2026. Prior to his switch, Chadha had been vocal in his criticism of the BJP, previously calling it a "party of illiterate goons" and a "patron of criminals." Chadha posted on X saying, "Out of these 1.4 billion people, the same leader has been entrusted with the nation again, and again, and again. 2014. 2019. 2024. Three successive mandates from the people of India, each one a renewed act of faith," He also compared Nehru’s leadership, contrasting the political landscapes of the two eras, noting that Nehru earned his mandate in an age of one-party dominance, while Modi has won in a far more demanding democracy of coalitions and fierce multi-party competition. "To command the trust of so fiercely contested a nation, mandate after mandate, is by any measure the harder achievement," Chadha said. "On this historic occasion, I bow to the wisdom of the Indian voter and salute the Hon'ble Prime Minister's tireless devotion to the nation," he added, praying for Modi's health and long life.