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Congress invited to form new govt Manmohan's oath tomorrow

Pallab Bhattacharya, New Delhi
A Congress-led coalition government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be sworn in New Delhi tomorrow following the triumph of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the Indian parliamentary poll.
"The president has invited me to form the government and proposes that I take oath of office and secrecy on May 22 ", 76-year-old Manmohan told journalists after meeting President Pratibha Patil.
He said the Congress-led coalition has the support of 322 members in the 545-member Lok Sabha, well past the majority markof272.
Manmohan, a leading economist and architect of India's economic reforms, said Congress and pre-poll allies make up for
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274 members and has the support of Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Bahujan Samaj Party which add up to 28.
The president said she invited Manmohan to form government as Congress was the single largest party and also headed the single largest prepollalliance.
Asked whether Congress' allies will be included in the government, Manmohan said, "You will come to know in due course".
Addressing the media separately, senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee said his party and its pre-poU allies discussed mechanism for forming the government today and further talks would be held later.
Earlier in the morning. Congress and its allies held talks over ministerial berths with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is in a position to dictate terms after his party's facile electoral triumph.
Leaders of UPA's constituents were believed to have pitched for cabinet berths at a meeting at the residence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi who was re-elected the head of the alliance.
Congress, which won 206 of the 543 elected seats in parliament, is expected to retain the key portfolios for finance, defence, foreign affairs and home.
The Congress-led alliance bagged a total of 262 seats in India's month-long general elections that left it just 10 seats short of a working majority in parliament.
Congress General Secretary Janardhan Dwivcdi said Manmohan had stressed that providing a strong and stable government was his first priority' while pushing forward propoor schemes launched in his previous tenure.