New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver his eleventh consecutive Independence Day address on Thursday, his first since returning to power for the record-equaling third consecutive term.
When PM Modi took oath on June 9, he equaled first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's record of three terms. He is now set to become the third prime minister after Mr Nehru, and his daughter Indira Gandhi, to address the nation from the ramparts of the Red Ford on eleven consecutive August 15 events.
While Mr Nehru, a Congress stalwart, had given 17 straight speeches, Indira Gandhi, the prime minister from January 1966 to March 1977, and then from January 1980 to October 1984, addressed the nation 16 times. She had also made 11 consecutive speeches.
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