PM ready to wear the crown of thorns! It will not be easy to run the government with Naidu and Nitish.

NEWS - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured a third term, but the BJP will need to rely on the support of other parties in his coalition - JD (U) chief Nitish Kumar and TDP's chief Chandrababu Naidu. The BJP fell 32 seats short of the 272 majority mark after votes polled in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were counted. For the first time, since the Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in 2014, it did not secure a majority on its own. The four allies whose support is critical for the BJP to reach majority are N Chandrabau Naidu's TDP, which has won 16 seats, Nitish Kumar's JDU (12), Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena (7) and Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas (5). It should benoted here that several prominent world leaders have also been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Modi. They include, King of Bhutan, President of Sri Lanka and Prime Ministers of Nepal, Bangladesh, and Mauritius. The media division of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe's office said Modi invited him to the swearing-in ceremony. It said Wickremesinghe accepted the invite and congratulated Modi on the electoral victory in a phone call. According to the information, PM Modi also had telephonic conversations with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and invited them to attend his swearing-in ceremony.