FILE - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to the media outside the Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 7, 2024. India’s Narendra Modi, newly sworn in for a third straight term, named a Cabinet on Monday, June 10, 2024, that retained his top ministers in crucial portfolios despite his Hindu nationalist party losing their majority in a shock election result.
India’s six-week-long election came to an end last week, in which Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party failed to secure a majority on its own after it won landslide victories in 2014 and 2019. However, his National Democratic Alliance coalition won enough seats to form the government, with him at the helm.has needed support from its regional allies to form a government after a decade of commanding the majority in India’s parliament.