atal bihari vajpaye
sardar vallabhai patel
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Indian Prime Minister, was in office for 6,130 (August 15, 1947 - May 27, 1964) days making him the longest serving Prime Minister in India's history.
Gulzarilal Nanda was the shortest term Care-taker Prime Minister. As full fledged Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh had the lesser period of 170 days from 28th July 1979 to 14 January 1980.
No prime minister of Britain served for 79 days. John Turner was born in Britain, but moved to Canada as a child and became Canadian prime minister and served for 79 days.
Gulzarilal Nanda (4 July 1898 - 15 January 1998) was an Indian politician and an economist with specialisation in labour problems. He was the interim Prime Minister of India twice for thirteen days each: the first time after the death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, and the second time after the death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966. (Both his terms ended after the ruling Indian National Congress party procedurally elected a new prime minister.) The Government of India honoured Nanda with the Bharat Ratna award in 1997
Earle Page who was caretaker Prime Minister for 19 days in 1939.
Charles Tupper was Prime Minister for only 69 days
He served as Prime Minister from 01/01/1901 to 24/09/1903 - a total of 996 days
It was none other than Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964), the first Prime Minister of India. He took the office soon after the Independence on 15 August 1947 and continued in that post until his death on 27 May 1964, for a total of 6130 days continuously. His daughter Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984) closely follows him, only 300 days shorter.
Alfred Deakin was the prime minister of Australia three times. He was prime minister from the 5th of September 1903 until the 27th of April 1904. So he was prime minister for 216 days in his first term. He was prime minister from the 5th of July 1905 until the 13th of November 1908. So he was prime minister for 1227 days in his second term. He was prime minister from the 2nd of June 1909 until the 29th of April 1910. So he was prime minister for 331 days in his third term. In total he was prime minister for 1774 days. That is almost 5 years in total.
Rajah refers to "KING". In India, in those days, land and people were ruled by Kings equivalent to today's Prime Minister or President.
Regardless of the outcome of an election, the prime minister will remain in office. If the prime minister's party loses the election, the prime minister will not leave office until the new government is sworn in, which could take several days.