Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, hoisted the tricolor for the primary time on August 15, 1947, and continued to take action yearly till his dying in workplace on Could 27, 1964, marking 17 consecutive Independence Day celebrations.Indira Gandhi, who served from 1966 to 1977 and once more from 1980 to 1984, addressed the nation on Independence Day 16 occasions.
PM Modi has now surpassed his instant predecessor, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who hoisted the tricolor ten occasions throughout his tenure from 2004 to 2014.
India has had 15 Prime Ministers so far, out of which 13 have had the chance to hoist the nationwide flag on the Purple Fort. The one two Prime Ministers who didn’t hoist the tricolor on Independence Day had been Gulzari Lal Nanda and Chandra Shekhar.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of the BJP-led NDA authorities, hoisted the tricolor six consecutive occasions throughout his second time period from March 19, 1998, to Could 22, 2004. Though he was sworn in thrice as PM, he didn’t have the chance to hoist the flag throughout his first time period from Could 16, 1996, to June 1, 1996.
Rajiv Gandhi, who served from October 31, 1984 following the assassination of his mom, Indira Gandhi to December 2, 1989, hoisted the nationwide flag for 5 consecutive years. This report was later matched by PV Narasimha Rao, who served from June 21, 1991, to Could 16, 1996.
Lal Bahadur Shastri and Morarji Desai every hoisted the flag twice. Shastri did so between June 9, 1964, when he turned Prime Minister, and January 11, 1966, when he handed away in Tashkent. Morarji Desai, the primary non-Congress Prime Minister of impartial India, hoisted the flag twice between March 24, 1977, and July 28, 1979, when his authorities ended.
4 Prime Ministers—Charan Singh, VP Singh, HD Deve Gowda, and IK Gujral every hoisted the flag as soon as.
