Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over a meeting of the members of the National Democratic Alliance, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, on Wednesday as they prepared to swear him in as the head of a coalition government for a third consecutive term. NDA MPs will meet on June 7 to formally elect Modi as their leader and the alliance leaders will then go to the President to submit their letters of support.
PM Narendra Modi on Friday formally elected as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance coalition, which won the most number of seats in the country’s national election after his political party failed to win a majority on its own. The 73-year-old leader, who will be sworn in as prime minister on Sunday for a rare third term, will now form a coalition government.
While addressing the NDA’s parliamentary meeting this morning, Modi had said that the Opposition’s efforts to paint the alliance’s Lok Sabha election victory as a loss has gone in vain. “There were efforts to not acknowledge this very victory, to cast a shadow of defeat. But all such efforts remained fruitless,” he said. The NDA stands at 293 after Tuesday’s result whereas the Opposition’s INDIA bloc is at 234 seats. Of these, the BJP is at 240, while the Congress saw its tally reach 100 on Thursday night.
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