New Delhi, June 10 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Wednesday become the country's longest continuously serving elected premier, marking 12 years at the helm of the central government during a period that saw the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) become the national political hegemon, expand to newer regions, and attract support from myriad communities. Modi will have served 4,399 days as prime minister on Wednesday, becoming the longest continuously serving elected premier. India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru first assumed office in 1947, won the first election in India in 1951-52 and remained in office until his death in 1964. Indira Gandhi, India's first woman PM, was in office for a little less than 16 years, but in two separate stints. Over the course of the past 12 years, the government has managed to eradicate the once dreaded left-wing terrorism, revolutionise welfare delivery, build the JAM trinity and UPI, boosted rail, road and airport infrastructure, reshaped India's defence and nuclear doctrine, and avenge Pakistani terrorism, especially the Pahalgam terror attack, with Operation Sindoor. The government has also steered the country through a pandemic and three devastating global wars. The milestone comes weeks after Modi led the BJP to landmark victories in assembly elections in West Bengal and Assam. The party formed the government in Bengal for the first time since independence, vanquishing the Trinamool Congress and building a base for itself in a province once dominated by the Left and the Congress but where Jana Sangh ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee was born. To mark the occasion, the NDA is set to pass a resolution at its meeting on Wednesday where the PM is set to be felicitated for his performance and leadership....