Modi sworn in as India’s prime minister for third term
New Delhi: Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister on Sunday for a third term, with analysts fearing his tenure could be devastating for minorities of India, especially Muslims.
According to Kashmir Media Service, President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Modi at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the president’s palace in New Delhi.
Modi, who started as a publicist of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is only the second person after independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru to serve a third straight term as prime minister.
Modi, 73, secured the third term in elections that concluded on June 1 with the support of 14 regional parties in his BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), unlike in the previous two terms when his party won an outright majority.
The outcome is seen as a big setback to the prime minister as surveys and exit polls had predicted BJP would secure even more seats than in 2019.
