PM Modi Hoisted the Tricolour at the Red Fort for the 11th Consecutive Time; Delivered His Longest I-Day Speech From Red Fort

New Delhi: PM Modi Hoisted the Tricolour at the Red Fort.

PM paid tribute to the freedom fighters.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday delivered his longest Independence Day speech at 98 minutes from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort.

This was the second record that he set with his 11th consecutive address. The other one is surpassing his predecessor Manmohan Singh’s 10 Independence Day addresses to become the third PM to achieve the feat.

Before PM Modi, India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru and later I.K. Gujral had delivered the longest speeches. Nehru in 1947 and Gujral in 1997 spoke for 72 and 71 minutes, respectively.

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The shortest speech record goes to Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Both spoke for 14 minutes in 1954 and 1966, respectively. 

Besides the speech duration record, with his 11th consecutive address on Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red Fort, PM Modi becomes the third Prime Minister to do so. The record lies with Nehru who hoisted the flag 17 times from 1947 to 1964. Nehru is followed by Indira Gandhi who hoisted the national flag 16 times. Indira Gandhi, however, did not achieve this record in consecutive tenures. She did this in two different stints from 1966-1977 and 1980-1984

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