PM Shehbaz congratulates Indian PM Modi on third term as premier

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif congratulated Narendra Modi on becoming the Prime Minister of India for a historic third term.

Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister on Sunday (June 9). President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Modi at a grand ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the president’s palace in New Delhi.

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The oath taking ceremony was attended by thousands of dignitaries, including the leaders of seven regional countries, Bollywood stars and industrialists.

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.