A fun fact about every Indian PM, a thread. yes, I'm rather bored. The more you know, and all.
Jawaharlal Nehru handed an empty envelope to Mountbatten instead of the list of his first cabinet, that was Independent India's first governmental goof-up
Lal Bahadur Shastri is the only war time PM to have never won a general election, and the only PM to die on foreign soil
Indira Gandhi, a day before her assassination, said at a rally, "I am here today, I may not be here tomorrow. Nobody knows how many attempts have been made to shoot me nor do I care whether I live or die. I have lived a long life and I am proud [to have] served my people" .
Morarji Desai drank his own urine, a practice he advocated repeatedly. He died at the age of 99.
Charan Singh has the shortest total term of any PM, at 23 days.
Rajiv Gandhi led the Congress to a 404 seat victory in 1984, the most seats earned by any party ever. This was however, right after his mother's assassination and largely seen as a 'sympathy vote'.
VP Singh's government was the first the BJP ever backed, albeit from the outside.
Chandra Shekhar led the smallest minority government ever, which at one point couldn't even pass the budget.
PV Narsimha Rao was the first South Indian and Non-hindi speaking PM, also one of the first politicians to be referred to as 'chanakya'
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first PM to have never been in the Congress party, also the first from the RSS.
HD Deve Gowda is the only 90's PM to still be alive as of this tweet.
IK Gujral is the only PM to have once been a member of the Communist Party of India, and the first to have been born in present day Pakistan.
Manmohan Singh is the only Indian PM to not adhere to Hinduism.
Narendra Modi is the first PM born in Independent India.
(if you've reached this far, why not RT? Everybody loves useless information 🙃)
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