The country ‘is run on consensus’

President Droupadi Murmu on June 7 formally invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to form the next government and begin his third successive term as Prime Minister after the National Democratic Alliance’s Parliamentary Party elected him its leader.

The Rashtrapati Bhavan announced that the new government will be sworn in on Sunday, June 9, at 7:15 p.m.

Earlier in the day, leaders of NDA parties, including Chandrababu Naidu of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Nitish Kumar of the Janata Dal (U), and Maharashtra’s Shiv Sena Chief Minister Eknath Shinde met President Murmu and handed over their letters of support to the new government.

At the meeting of the NDA Parliamentary Party held at the Central Hall of the old Parliament House, now termed the Samvidhan Sadan, the Prime Minister evoked the spirit of a coalition government, stressing that he would strive to ensure servant, or consensus, in all the decisions of his next government.

“Governments may be made based on numbers, but the country is run on consensus,” he said, asserting that the NDA was an organic alliance committed to the principle of “nation first.”