Modi to take oath as PM on May 26

20 May 2014 Evaluate

Bharatiya Janata Party's president Rajnath Singh confirmed that the swearing-in ceremony of the new government will take place on May 26 when the party's PM-elect Narendra Modi will take oath as the prime minister.

At a meeting held in parliament's central hall, Modi's name was proposed by party patriarch L.K. Advani and seconded by other leaders including Murli Manohar Joshi, Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley. BJP president Rajnath Singh then formally declared Modi to be their leader and described the moment as historic, and said that this heralded an era in Indian politics that was dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with all other parties pushed to a distant second as 'others'

The Modi-led BJP won a staggering 282 seats in the 545-member Lok Sabha, becoming the first non-Congress party since independence to get a majority on its own. The Congress fell to an embarrassing tally of 44 seats, its lowest ever.

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