Pandit Nehru & Shri Narendra Modi Taking A Oath As A Prime Minister Of India

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00:00I, Jawaharlal Nehru, do solemnly affirm I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established.

00:10I, Narendra Damodardas Modi, do solemnly affirm I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established.

00:30A moment that we have only witnessed once before, a Prime Minister taking oath for the third time.

00:36Retaining the top seat in the largest democracy for a third term is not an easy task.

00:42While we await how this term plays out for Prime Minister Modi,

00:45let's rewind to the historic 1962 elections that secured a third term for the then Prime Minister Nehru.

00:54Back in 1962, the elections spanned just 10 days, from February 16 to 25.

01:01Almost 21 crore Indians voted for the third Lok Sabha.

01:05A total of 1,985 candidates contested the election, which saw a turnout of 55.43%,

01:12well above the 47.54% turnout in the 1957 elections.

01:17Votes were cast for 387 General, 76 SC and 31 ST seats in Lok Sabha.

01:23Besides the Congress, national parties were the Communist Party of India,

01:28Praja Socialist Party and the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, which was the precursor to today's BJP.

01:34Despite the efforts of the opposition, the Congress Party dominated,

01:38winning 361 seats in the Lok Sabha.

01:41The CPI followed with 29 seats and the BJS secured 14.

01:46Notably, 35 women were elected to the Lok Sabha back then.

01:50Then, on April 10, 1962, Nehru took oath for the third time as the Prime Minister.

01:56I, Jawaharlal Nehru, do solemnly affirm,

01:59I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established.

02:06The election campaign had revealed separatist rhetoric of some opposition parties,

02:11with Nehru expressing his shock.

02:13On March 19, he told the Lok Sabha that he was, and I quote,

02:17shocked beyond measure at what the opponents of the Congress did.

02:21Nehru was speaking about the DMK party, which had run a radical campaign and won

02:26seven seats in Madras and emerged as a major force there.

02:29Later that year, on October 28, 1962, China invaded India,

02:35shaking the foundation of Nehru's foreign policy of Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai.

02:43Following this, the Congress Party suffered defeats in several

02:46by-polls held between the 1962 Lok Sabha election and July 1963.

02:52These setbacks allowed opposition leaders to go ahead for the first

02:55no-confidence motion against Nehru's government in August 1963.

03:00Nehru managed to defeat the motion, and after serving for 16 years and 286 days,

03:07the longest prime ministerial tenure in India so far,

03:10Nehru passed away following a fatal heart attack on May 27, 1964, in New Delhi.

03:16From Nehru to Modi, one thing that is unquestionably advanced

03:20is the journey of India's democracy.