Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath today for a third straight term as the head of a coalition government after two full tenures in which the BJP enjoyed a majority on its own. Mr. Modi, 73, equalled the feat of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who won in the 1952, 1957 and 1962 general elections.
President Droupadi Murmu administers the oath of office and secrecy to Mr. Modi; Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Amit Shah, J.P. Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and H. D. Kumaraswamy take oath as Cabinet Ministers