NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister on Sunday for a record-equalling third term, but as a restive coalition’s head after a...
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows the media a letter that he received from India's President Droupadi Murmu inviting him to form a new government after meeting her at the Presidential Palace - REUTERSpix
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 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 faultlines pushed voters to rein him in.
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