jawaharlal nehru served as prime minister of india for longest duration.
who served as prime minister of india for longest duration?
jawaharlal nehru
the longest lived prime minister was gulzarilal nanda, who lived to the age of 99 years, 195 days. (nanda, a cabinet minister, served as acting prime minister when both jawaharlal nehru and lal bahadur shastri died in office). morarji desai was the second-longest lived prime minister, and the longest lived elected prime minister lived to the age of 99 years, 41 days, only 154 days short of matching nanda. the shortest lived prime minister was rajiv gandhi, who was assassinated at the age of 46 years, 274 days. lal bahadur shastri is the only prime minister to die abroad, when he died in the uzbek ssr capital of tashkent in 1966.
list of prime ministers of india by longevity
it is a part of saros cycle 119, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. the series started with partial solar eclipse on may 15, 850 ad. it contains total eclipses on august 9, 994 ad and august 20, 1012 with a hybrid eclipse on august 31, 1030. it has annular eclipses from september 10, 1048 through march 18, 1950. the series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on june 24, 2112. the longest duration of totality was only 32 seconds on august 20, 1012. the longest duration of annularity was 7 minutes, 37 seconds on september 1, 1625. the longest duration of hybridity was only 18 seconds on august 31, 1030.
solar eclipse of january 23, 1860