Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hoisted the National Flag for the seventh straight time at the Red Fort on the occasion of 74th Independence Day. With this, he became the first non-Congress Prime Minister to do so most frequently.
Modi surpassed the number of times late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had hoisted the flag on Independence Day.
Modi first hoisted the national flag on the Red Fort in 2014 and in the second term of his government last year, hoisted the tricolor for the sixth time, equaling the first Prime Minister of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who headed the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), hoisted the tricolor six times between 19 March 1998 and 22 May 2004.
Although Vajpayee became the prime minister for the first time in 1996, his government could not run for long and could not get the opportunity to hoist the national flag.
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