# Modi is sworn in for a third consecutive term as Prime Minister

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 9 June 2024 [Narendra Modi](/people/narendra-modi) took oath as Prime Minister for a third consecutive term after the 2024 Lok Sabha election, in which the BJP fell short of a solo majority and the NDA formed the government.

## Context

The President administered the oath. The Election Commission had notified results. A completed transfer after a certified election is a procedural resilience event. It does not rebate 2016 demonetisation and it does not authorise treating every later order as the certificate.

The 2024 electoral-bonds judgment is a neighbouring earlier court instrument. CAA rules in March 2024 are a neighbouring earlier implementation.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Prime Minister’s Office of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed scheduled oath after a certified election is a procedural event, including a closer result than 2019.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 9 June 2024 third-term oath after a certified 2024 Lok Sabha election.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The President administered it. The Election Commission had notified the result. Coalition partners then bargained.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Modi is sworn in for a third consecutive term as Prime Minister, not a later speech about Modi is sworn in for a third consecutive term as Prime Minister.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Modi is sworn in for a third consecutive term as Prime Minister on 2024-06-09 is not a licence to treat every later Prime Minister’s Office of India communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Modi is sworn in for a third consecutive term as Prime Minister into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He took the oath. The President administered it. The Election Commission had notified the result. Coalition partners then bargained. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

## People

- Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-modi-be-sworn-third-term-prime-minister-2024-06-09/
- https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/shri-narendra-modi-takes-oath-as-prime-minister-for-the-third-term/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/in-third-term-oath-2024