Narendra Modi was on Saturday was appointed prime minister by President Ram Nath Kovind after he was unanimously elected NDA parliamentary party leader at a meeting in which he was asked its members to work without discrimination, stressing on the need to win over the trust of minorities.

Modi began an impassioned 75-minute speech in Parliament's Central Hall after bowing to the Constitution, he struck a note of inclusion, asking the MPs to take along everyone, and said minorities were made to leave in an "imaginary fear" and they have to break this "deception"
He said they should take everyone along, including those who have not voted for the ruling alliance and have been its trenchant critics.