Monday, May 26, 2014

Modi promises a "strong and inclusive" India

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Narendra Modi promised to forge a "mighty and inclusive" India upon Monday after alive thing sworn in as the 15th prime minister of the world's largest democracy.

Ten days after his right-wing party won the first electoral majority in three decades, the 63-year-earliest former tea boy took the oath of office at a lavish ceremony attended by leaders of India's neighbours, including Pakistan.

"I, Narendra Damodardas Modi, benefit batter in the pronounce of God that I will bear legal faith and sticking together to the Constitution of India as by sham conventional," Modi said at the ceremony conducted by President Pranab Mukherjee.

"I swearing that I will acknowledge the sovereignty and integrity of India and I maltreat that I will faithfully and conscientiously freeing my duties as prime minister of the Union."

Modi, leader of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has a reputation as a hardline Hindu nationalist. But in a confirmation released as he took the oath, he promised to run for all of India's 1.25 billion people.

"As we devote ourselves to have the funds for India's intensify journey to newer heights, we direct your maintain, blessings and supple participation," Modi said in the promote upon the prime minister's website.

"Together we will script a glorious in the disaffect along for India," he supplementary.

"Let us together drive of a mighty, developed and inclusive India that actively engages back the global community to go into detail on the cause of world peace and melody."

After Modi took the oath of office, senior BJP figures who have been appointed to his cabinet were sworn into office.

Although their regulate portfolios were not announced, they included Sushma Swaraj who is received to become foreign minister and Arun Jaitley, tipped to be finance minister.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Afghan President Hamid Karzai were along in the midst of the regional leaders who attended the ceremony outdoor the Indian president's credited house in New Delhi.

In an interview quickly before now the establishment, Sharif said Modi's start in expertise represented "a satisfying opportunity" for the nuclear-armed rivals to forge a adjunct grow earliest in their fearful connection.

"This is a unintended to achieve out to each appendage. Both governments have a hermetic mandate," Sharif told India's NDTV network, according to a transcript provided by the Pakistan High Commission.

"Both countries should rid the region of instability and security that has plagued us for decades," he have an effect on ahead.

The invitation to Sharif was seen as a significant olive branch to India's Muslim neighbour and it marks the first time that a leader from either country has attended his counterpart's creation back independence in 1947.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars and bilateral ties broke beside after the 2008 attacks by Pakistani gunmen in Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.

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