Narendra Modi will be sworn in as India’s Prime Minister for his third term in a row on the evening of Sunday, June 9, at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Modi’s swearing-in ceremony will take place at 6 pm on June 9.
His new council of ministers, including those from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), will also take the oath of office at the ceremony that will be attended by heads of state and government from neighbouring nations.
BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won a successive third term in office in the results of Lok Sabha elections declared on June 4.
Leaders of parties in the National Democratic Alliance held a meeting on Wednesday and elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi as their leader.
PM Modi later said that NDA will work towards building a developed India.
“Met our valued NDA partners. Ours is an alliance that will further national progress and fulfil regional aspirations. We will serve the 140 crore people of India and work towards building a Viksit Bharat,” PM Modi said in a tweet on Wednesday.
The NDA include TDP (16 MPs), JDU (12), Shiv Sena-Shinde (7), LJP-RV (5), JDS (2), JSP (2), RLD (2), HAM (1), NCP-Ajit (1), Apna Dal (1), UPPL(1), AGP (1), SKM (1) and AJSU (1). With BJP’s tally of 240 seats, the NDA has a strength of 293 in the Lok Sabha. The majority mark is 272 seats.
The oath-taking ceremony will take place on the lawns of Rashtrapati Bhavan. There is intense speculation about the changes in the BJP list of ministers as well as who will be chosen from the coalition partners. The number of berths that will be shared by the BJP with its NDA partners is still not clear.
People with knowledge of the matter said the BJP will hold on to the post of Lok Sabha Speaker as the NDA has just 59 MPs more than the INDIA bloc and in case any partner pulls out, the role of the presiding officer in the lower house will be crucial.
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wan-gchuck, Nepal PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Mauritius PM Pravind Jugnauth, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu and Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickrem-esinghe are likely to attend the swearing-in ceremony, said the people cited above.
