The “most senior Federal Minister means the Federal Minister for the time being designated as such by the Prime Minister”. “The cabinet shall continue in office until a new prime minister has been elected and has entered upon his office,” it adds. The first time was in 1964 when the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru died of cardiac arrest in office. Then-president Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan administered the oath of office of the prime minister to the senior-most minister in the cabinet, Gulzarilal Nanda, as caretaker head of the government until a regular prime minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, was elected. During the pandemic, Eswatini Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini remains the only high-profile politician to have died of coronavirus.

Source: Pakistan Today March 20, 2021 13:07 UTC