Modi latest news update: Narendra Modi has been sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of India nudging out the Congress Party's PM Manmohan Singh.
Modi belongs to the BJP party, a conservative party supported by the Hindu majority in India, the biggest democracy in the world. Hence, Modi's landslide victory over coalition parties with a single party majority is the first-of-its-kind political transition for India.
A profile composed by the Times of India said, Narendra Damodardas Modi (born September 17, 1950) is the longest-serving chief minister of Gujarat. He has held the office since 2001 and has been successfully re-elected three times. .. Modi is known for his astute administrative skills and has a record for being incorruptible. He is credited with turning around Gujarat's economy and making it an attractive investment destination for industrialists.
A couple of hours after his swearing in ceremony attended by the heads of the state from Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, PM Naredra Modi tweets," Nawaz Sharif told me that he stays in Islamabad but goes to meet his mother once in a week."
He also took to twitter before he was sworn in to thank other heads of state for their good wishes. He emphasized his desire to maintain strong ties with the US, Japan, Russia and Nepal.
The Chinese are calling PM Modi as the 'Nixon of India,' lauding the new prime minister for opening up business and trade with the mainland. A Chinese think-tank referred to Modi's thinking as "very close to Chinese practices".
In true Modi fashion, his oath of office were transmitted via landline and mobile phones as audio and visual live play. Mobile marketer Viva Connect said the ceremony would be carried live and the public use a phone number to access the live ceremony.
BBC News described the state of the elections as "India's main opposition BJP has risen like a phoenix from the depths of despair." That is an accurate description of the country wide elections after the BJP wins after third years, with just a little over 116 spots in 2009.
Modi grew in popularity after his model of leadership based on a presidential style "reputation as a no-nonsense, can-do leader who stood for development and muscular nationalism."
"This is Mr Modi's victory. A man who was vilified, pilloried and cast as an ogre of India by the English-speaking elite has emerged as the hope of India," says political commentator Swapan Dasgupta
