Narendra Modi was sworn in on Sunday evening for a rare third consecutive term as India’s Prime Minister, relying on his coalition partners after his party failed to win a parliamentary majority in a surprise outcome. Modi took the oath of office, administered by President Droupadi Murmu, at India’s presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
The 73-year-old popular but polarising leader is only the second Indian prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to retain power for a third five-year term.
His Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which won by landslides in 2014 and 2019, failed to secure a majority to govern on its own in the latest national election. However, Modi's National Democratic Alliance coalition won enough seats to form a government, with him at the helm.
This is the first time the BJP under Modi has needed support from its regional allies to form a government after a decade of commanding the majority in Parliament.
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- 9 Jun 2024 3:59 PM GMT
Durga Das Uikey from Betul Lok Sabha constituency takes oath. Betul is located in central Madhya Pradesh and is a reserved seat for Scheduled Tribe candidates.
- 9 Jun 2024 3:56 PM GMT
Ravneet Singh Bittu takes oath. He lost the Lok Sabha elections from Ludhiana in Punjab. Bittu, a three-term former Congress MP from Punjab, had joined the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.
- 9 Jun 2024 3:51 PM GMT
BJP's Kamlesh Paswan takes oath. He won from Bansgaon, a town and Nagar Panchayat in Gorakhpur District in Uttar Pradesh
- 9 Jun 2024 3:47 PM GMT
Bandi Sanjay Kumar, the former state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Telangana takes oath
- 9 Jun 2024 3:45 PM GMT
L Murugan, takes oath. He was inducted into Modi’s Cabinet in July 2021 during a reshuffle, and is a former Tamil Nadu president of the BJP and its Dalit face in the state. He was the runner up in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiris constituency (reserved for scheduled caste) where he lost to DMK’s A Raja.
- 9 Jun 2024 3:43 PM GMT
Actor-politician Suresh Gopi became the first ever BJP MP from Thrissur, Kerala
- 9 Jun 2024 3:43 PM GMT
From top right: Shobha Karandlaje, Kirti Vardhan Singh, BJP leader from Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh, B. L. Verma and BJP Leader Shantanu Thakur, first non-TMC MP to be elected from Bangaon, West Bengal, since its delimitation take oath
