The 73-year-old popular but polarising leader is only the second Indian prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to retain power for a third five-year term.
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00:00 Modi was sworn in for a rare third consecutive term as India's Prime Minister.
00:05 Narendra Modi relied on his coalition partners after his party failed to win a parliamentary
00:11 majority in a surprise outcome. The 73-year-old and his cabinet ministers took the oath of office,
00:17 administered by the Indian President, at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi.
00:22 His Hindu Nationalist Party, which won by landslides in 2014 and 2019,
00:28 failed to secure a majority to govern on its own in the latest election.