Humbled & grateful on being unanimously elected as the leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party in a meeting at the iconic Central Hall. No words will be enough to express my gratitude to the hard work of generations of Karyakartas who made this historic day for BJP a reality.
Due to his health we didn't have the honour of having Atal ji with us during the meeting but we always have his blessings!
It was wonderful to have the entire NDA family with us during the Parliamentary Party Meeting. I salute their efforts throughout the campaign.
I congratulate all previous Governments & their leaders. We will take their good work ahead & work harder to fulfil people's dreams & aspirations.
Ours will be a Government that thinks, works & lives for the poor. This will be a Government dedicated to the villages, youth & women of India
Narendra Modi, who steered BJP and the NDA to a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha election, was appointed Prime Minister on Tuesday, ushering in a new era of a non-Congress government with an absolute majority on its own in 30 years. Later, a Rashtrapati Bhawan communique said: "... As Modi has been elected leader of the BJP parliamentary party and BJP has majority support in the House of the People, the President appointed him the Prime Minister of India and requested him to advise the names of members of the council of ministers." "The President will administer the oath of office and secrecy on May 26 at 6pm at Rashtrapati Bhawan," the President's spokesman Venu Rajamony said. "Welcome, welcome, welcome," Mukherejee said, receiving a bouquet from Modi. Mr.Mukherejee was very happy to receive Narendra Modi.Offering a bunch of flowers, he congratulated him on his "grand victory".
Tuesday's scene was vastly different from the summer of 1996 when the then President Shankar Dayal Sharma appointed Atal Bihari Vajpayee as Prime Minister of a minority government that fell in 13 days.
Later, after the 1998 and 1999 elections Vajpayee was again called to form governments only after the then President KR Narayanan was satisfied with letters of support from parties backing the NDA coalition on the numbers. Before Modi's meeting with the President, a delegation of NDA leaders led by Rajnath Singh and LK Advani called on the President to convey to him the decision of the BJP and the NDA parliamentary parties to choose Modi as their leader.
"Today we had a meeting of the BJP Parliamentary party and we have adopted a unanimous resolution to elect Narendra Modi as our leader. All the NDA allies were also present. We have requested the President to invite Narendra Modi for the swearing in as the Prime Minister," Rajnath Singh told reporters at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.
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