Gandhinagar: Narendra Modi, who pulled off a stunning repeat win for the BJP in the Gujarat Assembly elections, will be sworn in as Chief Minister on Tuesday for a third consecutive term.
Modi will be sworn in by Governor Naval Kishore Sharma at 1250 PM at the Sardar Patel stadium after he was unanimously elected as the leader of the Gujarat BJP Legislature Party on Monday.
As a formality, all the 117 newly elected BJP MLAs held a meeting at the Town Hall here where they chose Modi as their leader. Senior BJP leaders, Arun Jaitley and Venkaiah Naidu also attended the meeting.
Modi's swearing-in ceremony Modi will coincide with the birthday of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Earlier, Modi was scheduled to be sworn in on December 27. He single-handedly ensured that the saffron party came close to a two-third majority winning 117 seats in the high-profile elections.
After he was elected, an emotional Modi addressed the issue of his perceived larger than life image when he told his legislators he was not bigger than the party.
"Those who say Modi is bigger than party do not know what the history of BJP and Jan Sangh is," Modi said.
"Son cannot ever be bigger than a mother", an emotional Modi said, suggesting that he cannot be bigger than the party. While talking on the issue, Modi appeared to be touched and was almost in tears.
"It is vikrut manskita (perverted mindset) to say that Modi is bigger than the party", he said and had a dig at the media saying, "My image appears to be bigger because of the limitation of your lenses which stop at me”.
Comments
0 comment