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Narendra Modi is reportedly keen to invite heads of state of various countries including SAARC nations for his oath-taking ceremony on Monday, May 26. This would include Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Mr Modi reportedly conveyed this to President Pranab Mukherjee when he met him yesterday. The Ministry of External Affairs has begun the process to invite the leaders, sources said. The invites are likely to go out by this evening, they added.
There is no recent precedent for inviting foreign heads of state when an Indian prime minister has been sworn in. SAARC nations include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan and the invitation would send out a strong signal of a neighbour-friendly new governmen.
The BJP has indicated that Mr Modi will work to a re-crafted foreign policy. He repeatedly tore into the Congress-led UPA government's foreign policy in his election speeches as"stagnated","weak"and"a mockery."
BJP chiefRajnath Singhsaid yesterday that about 3000 people would be invited for Mr Modi's oath-taking, which will be held in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace. Only two other prime ministers - Chandra Shekhar and Atal Bihari Vajpayee - have been sworn in in the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt.
Others have taken oath in the historic Durbar Hall of the palace, which can only accommodate 500 people. -
For Narendra Modi's Swearing-In, BJP Keen to Invite Nawaz Sharif, Other Leaders | NDTV.com
Mr Modi reportedly conveyed this to President Pranab Mukherjee when he met him yesterday. The Ministry of External Affairs has begun the process to invite the leaders, sources said. The invites are likely to go out by this evening, they added.
There is no recent precedent for inviting foreign heads of state when an Indian prime minister has been sworn in. SAARC nations include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan and the invitation would send out a strong signal of a neighbour-friendly new governmen.
The BJP has indicated that Mr Modi will work to a re-crafted foreign policy. He repeatedly tore into the Congress-led UPA government's foreign policy in his election speeches as"stagnated","weak"and"a mockery."
BJP chiefRajnath Singhsaid yesterday that about 3000 people would be invited for Mr Modi's oath-taking, which will be held in the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace. Only two other prime ministers - Chandra Shekhar and Atal Bihari Vajpayee - have been sworn in in the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt.
Others have taken oath in the historic Durbar Hall of the palace, which can only accommodate 500 people. -
For Narendra Modi's Swearing-In, BJP Keen to Invite Nawaz Sharif, Other Leaders | NDTV.com