Narendra Modi Re-elected as Prime Minister: A Photo Essay

Prime Minister Narendra Modi signs the register after taking oath marking the beginning of his second term as India's prime minister. The swearing-in ceremony was held at the presidential palace in New Delhi, on Thursday, May 30, 2019. Modi returned to power after an overwhelming election victory for his Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, winning 303 of the 542 seats contested. Photo: AP

Amit Shah, the BJP president who has successfully delivered two general election victories to the party, joins the Cabinet as Minister of Home Affairs. Here, he is seen taking charge at North Block in New Delhi, on Saturday, June 1, 2019. Photo: PTI

Newly appointed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman touches her file as she takes charge of the Finance Ministry at North Block, in New Delhi, Friday, May 31, 2019. She is the first woman after Indira Gandhi to hold the Finance portfolio. During the previous regime, she became the first woman defence minister of India. Photo: PTI

Former foreign secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is received by the present Foreign Secretary Vijay Keshav Gokhale, as he arrives at the Ministry of External Affairs to take charge as the Minister at South Block in New Delhi, Friday, May 31, 2019. Phot: PTI

Voters hold up their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting vote at a polling station in Nagaur district during the fifth phase of polling May 06, 2019. The total turnout recorded was 67.47 per cent, one percentage point more than the 2014 elections. The BJP polled 37.41 per cent of the total votes polled establishing its clear dominance in the elections. Photo: PTI

Bachan Singh, deemed to be the oldest voter in Delhi at 111 years, leaves a polling booth after casting his vote during the sixth phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in West Delhi, Sunday, May 12, 2019. Photo: PTI

Incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi defeated his nearest rival Shalini Yadav of the Samajwadi Party by a margin of nearly 4.8 lakh votes. Here, he is seen meditating in a holy cave near Kedarnath Temple, during his two-day pilgrimage to Himalayan shrines, in Rudraprayag district, Saturday, May 18, 2019. Photo: PTI

Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi lost his family bastion Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) to the BJP's Smriti Irani but managed to win in Wayanad (Kerala) by a margin of 4.3 lakh votes. In this file photo, he is captured looking skywards at a function to release the party's manifesto in New Delhi File photo: AP/Manish Swarup

In this Feb 3, 2012 file photo, Priyanka Vadra is seen at an election campaign in Amethi. The Congress party had on Wednesday, Jan 23, 2019 appointed Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary in charge of Eas Uttar Pradesh to spruce up its campaign. Photo: PTI/Atul Yadav

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP leader Yogi Adityanath campaigning in support of the party's East Delhi candidate Gautam Gambhir for Lok Sabha elections, in New Delhi, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Not only did the BJP win all the seven seats in the National Capital Region, the party also bagged 62 out of 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh. Photo: PTI/Ravi Choudhary

TDP President and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu seen casting his vote during the first phase of the general elections, in Amaravati, Thursday, April 11, 2019. Andhra Pradehs had Lok Sabha and assembly polls held simultaneously where Naidu's party TDP was routed by the YSRCP in both elections. Photo: PTI

DMK President MK Stalin greets the caders at the party office on Thursday, May 23, 2019 after securing a massive victory over the AIADMK-BJP combine in Tamil Nadu. The party and its allies grabbed 37 out of 38 seats where elections were held in the State (Election to Vellore Parliamentary constituency was cancelled after the Election Commission recovered heavy haul of cash). Photo: M. Karunakaran

UPA chairperson and congress leader Sonia Gandhi captured here after she cast her vote at Nairman Bhawan polling booth during sixth phase of Lok Sabha election, in New Delhi on Sunday, May 12, 2019. Although she took a hiatus from active politics after Rahul Gandhi took over as the president of the Congress party, she contested and won from the family's traditional constituency Rae Bareilly. Photo Sandeep Saxena

TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, flashes the victory sign before casting her vote during the final phase of polling for the 17th LokSabha Elections in Kolkata on Sunday, May 19, 2019. Her party had to concede territory to the BJP as the party increased its tally to 18 seats while the TMC could win 22. Photo: Rajeev Bhatt/The Hindu

The Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi flash the victory sign in Patna on Thursday May 23, 2019. The NDA constituents won 39 of the 40 seats in the State. Photo: Ranjeet Kumar/The Hindu

Congress party candidate of Thiruvananthapuram Constituency, Shashi Tharoor, celeberating his victory along with party workers in the Kerala capital on Thursday, May 23, 2019. Photo: S.Gopakumar/The Hindu.

BJP National President Amit Shah seen here during a road show with the party's candidate from Amethi seat, Smriti Irani, on Saturday, May 4, 2019. Irani caused a big upset defeating Congress president Rahul Gandhi in his family bastion by a margin of a little over 55,000 votes. Photo: PTI

YSRCP chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy greeting supporters at the party office in Tadepalli on Thursday, 23 MAY 2019. The party swept both the Lok Sabha and the legislative assembly polls, held simultaneously, routing Chandrababu Naidu's TDP. In the Lok Sabha elections, the YSRCP bagged 22 out of 25 seats while in the assembly polls, it won 151 of the 175 seats. Photo: Ch. Vijaya Bhaskar/The Hindu

Prime Minister Narender Modi and Amit Shah , at party office, in New Delhi on Thursday, May 23, 2019. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma / The Hindu