NEW DELHI: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi will take oath of office for his second term along with his new council of ministers on May 30, the President’s office said on Sunday.
“President
Ram Nath Kovind will administer the oath of office and secrecy to the prime minister and other members of Union council of ministers on May 30 at 7 pm at Rashtrapati Bhavan,” a communique issued by President's press secretary Ashok Malik said.
Modi is the first BJP leader to be elected for a second term after completion of his five-year tenure, a feat achieved only by two Congress leaders, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
From BJP, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was elected PM for two consecutive terms but his first stint had lasted only for one year and seven months.
Names of ministers who will join Modi in his second innings is yet to be disclosed, though there is speculation that some new members may join the council, including from states like West Bengal which played a key role in BJP’s massive victory.
It is also not clear whether the ceremony will be attended by world leaders. Modi had surprised everyone during the 2014 swearing-in when he invited Saarc leaders, including the then Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif.
On Saturday, an NDA delegation led by BJP president
Amit Shah and comprising Parkash Singh Badal, Rajnath Singh, Nitish Kumar, Ram Vilas Paswan, Sushma Swaraj, Uddhav Thackeray, Nitin Gadkari, K Palaniswami, Conrad Sangma and Neiphiu Rio had called on the President.
They handed over a letter stating that Modi had been elected leader of the BJP parliamentary party. Letters of support from the NDA constituents were also handed over.
NDA has a strength of 353 MPs in the 543-member Lok Sabha, out of which BJP has 303 members. This is the highest every tally for BJP, which had got just two MPs in its Lok Sabha electoral debut in 1984.
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