New Delhi: Ahead of his swearing-in ceremony, Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi visited "Sadaiv Atal" and "Rajghat", the 'samadhis' of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Mahatma Gandhi respectively in New Delhi, on Thursday.
Accompanied by BJP President Amit Shah, Modi also paid tribute at the National War Memorial.
Other BJP leaders including JP Nadda, Piyush Goyal, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar and Giriraj Singh were also present on the occasion and paid their tributes.
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Modi along with his Council of Ministers will be administered the oath of office and secrecy on Thursday at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Narendra Modi will be the first prime minister in nearly 50 years to win absolute majority in consecutive polls.
The 68-year-old leader is all set to take oath as the Prime Minister of India for the second consecutive term today. President Ram Nath Kovind will administer the oath of office and secrecy at the function.
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The BJP, which won 282 seats in 2014, improved its tally by notching up 303 seats. Along with its NDA allies, the number swelled to 353 in the 543-member Lower House of the Parliament.
Modi fought and won the 2014 general election to become Prime Minister. With the 2019 Lok Sabha poll victory, he has become the first Prime Minister outside of the Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority since 1971.
This time around, the BJP rode on muscular nationalism under the leadership of Modi to storm back to power with 303 seats in the Lok Sabha.
Modi has reached out to BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) member-states, whose leaders have confirmed their attendance for his swearing-in ceremony. The bloc's member nations include Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand besides India.
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President of Bangladesh Abdul Hamid, President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena, President of Myanmar U Win Myint, Prime Minister of Bhutan Lotay Tshering, Prime Minister of Nepal KP Sharma Oli, and Thailand's Special Envoy Grisada Boonrach will be present in the national capital Delhi for attending the ceremony. The President of Kyrgyzstan, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, along with the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, will also be present at the event.
