Narendra Modi today took oath as Prime Minister for the third consecutive term. He took oath at 7:30 pm in a grand ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi in the presence of top leaders of India and the Indian Ocean region, including Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to him.
Notably, this event made Narendra Modi the only leader after former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to have been elected for a third consecutive term after completing the full term of each previous term.
Along with Narendra Modi, his cabinet ministers took oath; the cabinet includes Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, S Jaishankar, HD Kumaraswamy, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Nitin Gadkari, JP Nadda and other senior leaders of the BJP and its NDA allies .
PM Modi takes oath: Preparations have been made
Meanwhile, posters featuring Narendra Modi were put up in Delhi ahead of his swearing-in ceremony and around 1,100 traffic police officers of the Delhi Police were deployed.
An advisory was issued to the public regarding traffic movement and route arrangements were made for delegates as part of preparations for the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi on Sunday.
Several leaders and heads of state from the neighboring region and the Indian Ocean region were invited to Prime Minister Modi’s swearing-in ceremony as distinguished guests, a testament to India’s ‘neighbourhood first’ policy.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in an official statement on Saturday: “Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe; Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu; Seychelles Vice President Ahmed Afif; Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ; the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina; the Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Kumar Jugnauth; the Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal `Prachanda` and the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay, have accepted the invitation to attend. of the leaders and heads of state, more than 250 workers who participated in the construction of the Parliament will also go to the residence of the BJP leader, Mansukh Mandaviya, at 3:00 p.m. and will go to the President’s house to participate in the ceremony oath of Prime Minister-designate, Narendra Modi.
The BJP won 240 seats and the NDA won 292 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats. The Congress fought the elections as part of the INDIA bloc and the parties together were able to prevent the BJP from winning a majority on its own in the Lok Sabha. The Congress won 99 seats. The Samajwadi Party won 37 seats, while the Trinamool Congress won 29. DMK managed to win 22 seats.