New Delhi: The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi forms the government at the Centre for the third consecutive term on Sunday. Narendra Modi has taken the oath as Prime Minister for the third consecutive term today on June 9. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the oath at 7:15 PM.

This is an extraordinary event as Narendra Modi is the only leader after former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who has been elected for a third consecutive term after completing the full tenure of each previous term. Alongside Narendra Modi, members of his council of ministers will also take their oath on the same day. Meanwhile, posters featuring PM Narendra Modi have been put up in Delhi ahead of his swearing-in ceremony.

Around 1,100 traffic police personnel of the Delhi Police have been deployed and an advisory has been issued to the public for the traffic movement and route arrangements have been made for the delegates as part of the arrangements for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s oath ceremony on Sunday.Several leaders and State heads of neighbourhood region and Indian Ocean region have been invited for PM Modi’s swearing-in ceremony as distinguished guests, a testament to India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy.

The BJP got 240 seats and NDA has secured 292 seats out of 543 Lok Sabha seats. Congress fought the election as part of the INDIA bloc and the parties together were able to prevent BJP from getting a majority on its own in Lok Sabha. The Congress secured 99 seats. Samajwadi Party got 37 seats, while Trinamool Congress got 29. DMK managed to win 22 seats.