New Delhi | Congress President Rahul Gandhi along with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be attending Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2nd terms swearing-in ceremony.
Earlier it was reported that the UPA chairperson will only be attending the ceremony with senior Congress leader Gulam Nabi Azad. PM Modi along with other cabinet leaders will be taking the oath in the Rashtrapati Bhavan premise on May 30th.
All Chief ministers of BJP and non-BJP governed states will be attending the ceremony expect West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee who decided to stay away from the event after BJP invited families of BJP workers who died in the political violence in West Bengal.
The representative of the member countries of BIMSTEC i.e Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan will also be attending the oath-taking ceremony. Meanwhile, Pakistan and China are not invited for the swearing-in ceremony.
In the recently concluded 2019 Lok Sabha elections the BJP led NDA won 353 seats while the Congress-led UPA won just 90 seats.
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