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President, Ram Nath Kovind greeting greats Narendra Modi after administering the oath of office of the Prime Minister, at a
Swearing-in Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi

fter an unprecedented vic- A significant development was the i Sources say that there is a strong possibil-
tory run for the BJP and duction of the BJP chief Amit Shah who ity of Nadda who had earlier worked as
NDA harped on the narra- was sworn in at number three after a general secretary o the BJP, being ele-
tive of nationalism, Team Prime Minister Narinder Modi and Cabi- vated as party president. He is among the
AModi led by Prime Min- net Minister, Rajnath Singh. The induc- frontrunners for the top job to replace
ister, Narendra Modi has taken the oath tion of Amit Shah, who was instrumental Amit Shah.
of office and secrecy. Modi is the Prime to bring BJP to power in 2014 and 2019 Shah had taken over as BJP chief in
Minister for a second consecutive term. with his unique organizational capabili- July 2014 after then party chief Rajnath
The swearing in ceremony was held at ties, is a vital development. His induction Singh who was earlier chief minister of
the sprawling forecourt of the Rashtra- into the Cabinet means the party will Uttar Pradesh joined the Modi cabinet
pati Bhavan. President Ram Nath Kovind have to elect a new president. in 2014. With the BJP constitution pre-
administered the oath to Modi, 24 Cabi- As J.P.Nadda, a minister and a per- scribing two terms for a sitting president,
net colleagues, nine Ministers of State former have been dropped from the Cab- which Shah has already completed, the
(Independent Charge) and 24 Ministers inet, it is being anticipated that be might party was already looking for his re-
of State. be considered to be president of the BJP. placement. However, the benchmarks

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