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Trump Imran Khan congratulates Modi congratulates akistan Prime Minister Imran Khan congratulated his Indian counterpart PNarendra Modi and his party on their election victory, saying he looked Modi, BJP on forward to working with the premier for “peace, progress and prosperity in South Asia”. Congratulate Prime Minister Modi on the electoral victory ‘BIG’ election of BJP and allies. Look forward to working with him for peace, progress and prosperity in South Asia,” Khan tweeted. win In April, Khan said a Modi win could help settle the Kashmir issue and ongratulations to Prime Min- Islamabad has repeatedly stated it open to dialogue with Delhi Cister @narendramodi and his BJP party on their BIG election victory!” Trump tweeted. “Great things are in store for the US-India partnership with the Xi extends ‘heartfelt’ congratulations return of PM Modi at the helm. I hinese President Xi Jinping extended “heartfelt” congratulations to look forward to continuing our im- CPrime Minister Modi on his election victory and vowed to work with portant work together!” Trump said. him to take the bilateral ties to a new height.

Narendra Modi (C) flashes the victory sign next to Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) president National Conference (NC) leader Farooq Abdullah (C), former Chief Minister of Uttar Pardesh Yogi Aditya Nath (C) flashes the victory sign to supporters along with Deputy Chief Ministers (3L) and Minister of Home Affairs of India (3R) and other senior BJP leaders as they chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, shows a victory sign after Keshav Prasad Maurya (R) and Dinesh Sharma (3L) during the party’s victory celebration at party office in Lucknow celebrate the victory in India’s general election at the party headquarters in New Delhi winning his Srinagar constituency parliament seat in Srinagar Modi makes clean sweep Opposition in shambles Modi vows ‘inclusive’ India after Amit Shah wins Gandhinagar seat by over 5 lakh votes. Invites Modi to Dhaka landslide election win • angladesh PM Sheikh Hasina who also shares strong chem- istry with Modi extended an invitation to Modi to visit World leaders including from China, Russia, Israel, B New Delhi, India Dhaka. The two leaders agreed to identify dates for a meeting crackers, dancing and singing Sri• Lanka, Japan, Afghanistan congratulates Prime at the earliest. as hundreds of party faithful Minister for BJP’s huge victory. ndia’s Prime Minister Nar- thronged the yard and nearby endra Modi vowed an “in- streets waiting for Modi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins Varanasi clusive” future for all Indi- “Modi will make India great Singapore congratulates Modi I seat• by a margin of 3.85 lakh votes ans yesterday after a landslide again. Modi is the strongest ongratulations on your re-election, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Seats required Indian National election victory that crushed prime minister India has ever CThe strong mandate reflects the results of your first term and the con- for absolute ma- Congress (INC) the Gandhi dynasty’s comeback had and will get. We need to sup- Congress President won from Wayanad, sequent trust that the people of India repose in your leadership. Singapore jority 272 seats hopes once again. port his policies to prosper,” said Kerala,• with 12,76,945 but lost from his second seat appreciates the personal focus you have placed on developing our bilateral 49 88 INC allies “Together we grow. Together one supporter, Santosh Joshi. relationship… Singapore also welcomes India’s deepening engagement of we prosper. Together we will At Congress headquarters, a Amethi, where he has been winning since 2004. the region, in line with your Act East policy 40 build a strong and inclusive In- handful of dejected supporters dia. India wins yet again!,” Modi sat in groups under the shade Congress refutes reports of Rahul Gandhi’s resignation. Some 303 tweeted as delirious supporters of trees. news• channels have reported that the Gandhi scion had tendered his of his Bharatiya “We are sad but we will rise resignation from the post of Congress president following poll drubbing. Putin calls Modi 97 (BJP) celebrated nationwide. again. Modi won because of ussian President Vladimir Putin who was the first P-5 leader to tele- “The faith placed in our al- his lies and false promises. The Rphone Modi expressed hope that the two leaders will work jointly to liance is humbling and gives country is in danger now,” Ra- • PM Modi removes ‘chowkidar’ prefix from consolidate strategic partnership and further build on their chemistry. us strength to work even jesh Tiwari, a Congress support- Twitter, says take its spirit to next level harder to fulfil people’s as- er, said. pirations,” he said before India’s main Sensex index India’s main Sensex index breached the 40,000-point level for the arriving at BJP headquar- breached the 40,000-point lev- first• time as the count pointed to a Modi win, following strong gains since ters flashing victory signs el for the first time as the count Abe reiterates commitments with both hands and pointed to a Modi win, following Monday. being showered in strong gains since Monday. apanese PM Shinzo Abe who shares a strong chemistry with Modi in petals. The vast size of India -- Jhis conversation reiterated commitment towards further strengthen- Although final stretching from the Himalayas ing the India-Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership to achieve results were yet to the tropics, taking in pollut- their shared vision of peace, progress and prosperity. to be published, ed megacities, deserts and jun- a rolling vote gles -- made the world’s biggest count by the election a marathon six-week election com- endeavour. Australian PM congratulates Modi mission showed The campaign, estimated to the Bharatiya have cost more than $7 billion, Sikkim (32) Andhra (175) ustralian PM Scott Morrison hoped that he would be able to meet the Janata Party was awash with insults -- Modi AIndian PM soon. (BJP) increased was likened to Hitler and a “gut- its majority with ter insect” -- as well as fake news 302 out of 543 in Facebook and WhatsApp’s elected lower biggest markets. house seats. Gandhi tried several lines of The BJP’ s attack against Modi, in particu- main rivals lar over a French defence deal New Delhi, India 2014 and the constituency is Congress were and high unemployment and considered one of the two Neh- on just 51 seats, saying Modi was dividing the Rahul ahul Gandhi, leader of ru-Gandhi family bastions. with Rahul officially secular country. RIndia’s main opposition The heavy losses suffered Gandhi -- the Congress party, conceded yes- by the Congress to Modi put great-grand- The watchman Kerala Gandhi terday he had lost his seat in paid to Gandhi’s hopes of be- son, grand- But Modi, 68, managed to the famous family’s long-held coming the fourth member of son and son deftly turn the election into a home constituency. his famous dynasty to lead the of three referendum on his rule while concedes “ (of the BJP) has world’s biggest democracy. premiers depicting himself, often in the won in Amethi and I congrat- Votes counted so far indicat- -- conced- third person, as the only one able ulate her. The people of Ame- ed that the party won just 50 ing defeat to defend India. personal thi have given their mandate,” seats against 301 for the BJP, and con- In this he was given a major Gandhi told a news confer- which secured an even bigger gratulat- boost when a suicide bombing, ence. majority than at the last elec- ing Modi. claimed by a Pakistan-based At national level, Congress tion in 2014. In an militant group, killed 40 Indian defeat in looked to have been given a “I can’t comment on the re- added per- paratroopers in Indian-admin- hiding at the polls as Prime sults today. I want to say that sonal humiliation istered Kashmir on February 14. Odisha (147) Arunachal (60) Minister Narendra Modi’s our fight is a fight for ideolo- Gandhi, 48, also ad- Doubts abound about the ef- family headed gy. I want to tell our leaders, mitted he had lost ficacy of India’s subsequent air for a landslide victory. who won and lost, don’t worry, Amethi, a seat long strikes on Pakistan, but the ac- Congress has held Amethi in don’t lose confidence. We will held by his famous tion enabled Modi to style him- bastion state since 1967 fight together for our ideology,” family, to a former tel- self the “chowkidar” (“watch- except for one three-year stint Gandhi told the news confer- evision star running for man”). in 1977-80 and a separate one- ence. “It doesn’t matter what the BJP. “We have shown the world year period in 1998-99. I think went wrong. Frankly The BJP’s head- that India is a great country. Rahul Gandhi, 48, won people of India have decided quarters in Delhi We have shown Pakistan that the seat in 2004, 2009 that Modi should be the prime erupted in cel- they cannot mess with us,” said and minister, as an Indian person I ebration with Vishal Sharma, a BJP supporter accept it,” he said. drummers, fire- in Delhi.