NEW DELHI, June 9 — Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister today for a record-equalling third term, but as a restive coalition’s head after a shock poll...
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi bows during a swearing-in ceremony at the presidential palace in New Delhi June 9, 2024. — Reuters picNEW DELHI, June 9 — Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister today for a record-equalling third term, but as a restive coalition’s head after a shock poll setback that will test his ability to ensure policy certainty in the world’s most populous nation.
Modi, who started as a publicist of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh , the ideological parent of his Bharatiya Janata Party , 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 , unlike in the previous two terms when his party won an outright majority.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the oath during a swearing-in ceremony at the presidential palace in New Delhi June 9, 2024. — Reuters picModi delivered world beating growth and lifted India’s global standing but appeared to have missed a step at home as a lack of enough jobs, high prices, low incomes and religious fault lines pushed voters to rein him in.
Modi’s new term as prime minister, therefore, is likely to be fraught with challenges on building consensus on contentious political and policy issues in the face of different interests of regional parties and a stronger opposition, analysts say.
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