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Narendra Modi sworn in as Prime Minister for third consecutive term

Narendra Modi took oath as the Prime Minister for a third consecutive term on June 9, making him the first non-Congress leader and the second Indian after Jawaharlal Nehru to achieve the milestone. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office and secrecy to Modi.

Along with Modi, senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Amit Shah took oath as Cabinet Ministers. BJP President J. P. Nadda returned to the Union Cabinet after five years.

Senior BJP leader and four-time Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Srikakulam MP Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were sworn in as Ministers in the Union Cabinet.

While Chouhan became a Cabinet Minister for the first time in his more than three-decade-long political career, the TDP leader has become the youngest-ever member of the Cabinet.

Top leaders from India’s neighbourhood and the Indian Ocean region — Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, Bhutanese PM Tshering Tobgay and Vice-President of Seychelles Ahmed Afif — were in attendance.

Opposition leader and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge was among those who attended the ceremony.

In addition to political leaders and eminent persons from different walks of life, members from the transgender community as well as sanitation workers and labourers, who were involved in the construction of the new parliament building, also attended the swearing-in ceremony.

In view of the swearing-in ceremony, the Delhi Traffic Police made special arrangements and issued an advisory on diversions and restrictions in the vicinity of the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

According to the advisory, no traffic movement will be allowed on the Sansad Marg (between Transport Bhawan and T-point Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Marg), North Avenue Road, South Avenue Road, Kushak Road, Rajaji Marg, Krishna Menon Marg, Talkatora Road and Pt. Pant Marg between 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.