(New Delhi) – Indian prime minister-elect Narendra Modi has invited Pakistan’s premier Nawaz Sharif as well as other South Asian leaders to his swearing-in ceremony, a spokeswoman for his party told.
Nirmala Sitharaman, from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said all heads of government from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation “have been given invitations to be present at Mr Modi’s swearing in.”
Modi is to take the oath as prime minister on May 26, ten days after a landslide win for the BJP which secured the first majority by a single party in 30 years.