President Droupadi Murmu on Friday invited Narendra Modi to form the government at the Centre after NDA led by BJP elected him as a party leader.
Narendra Modi is expected to take oath as Prime Minister for the third consecutive time on June 9 at 6 pm.
Addressing the media after the meeting with the President, Narendra Modi said that the President had given him the letter of designation appointing him as the Prime Minister of India and a detailed plan of the oath ceremony. She also sought the list of ministers to take oath on that day.
PM Modi meets President Murmu, stakes claim to form government
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Narendra Modi is all set to take oath on Sunday evening and the Rashtrapati Bhavan will go forward with the rest of the details, by then we will be handing over the list of the Council of Ministers to the President. After that, the oath ceremony will be taken.
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Today, the NDA, which includes the BJP, Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United, and Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, among others, submitted its list of MPs to the President. With a total of 293 MPs, the alliance surpasses the majority mark of 272 in the 543-member Lok Sabha comfortably.
Earlier today, NDA leaders gathered at the Central Hall of the old Parliament Building. Alongside NDA MPs, senior figures from the alliance, including chief ministers, convened. Chandrababu Naidu, Nitish Kumar, Eknath Shinde, Chirag Paswan, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Anupriya Patel, and Pawan Kalyan were among the NDA leaders present on the main stage, alongside senior BJP officials.
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