PM Modi Congratulates Lankan Counterpart Wickremesinghe on Poll Win

PM Modi Congratulates Lankan Counterpart Wickremesinghe on Poll Win
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated Ranil Wickremesinghe on being sworn-in as Sri Lanka\'s Prime Minister.After Mr Wickremesinghe\'s United National Party won the Sri Lankan Parliamentary polls, the Prime Minister had called him up on August 18 to congratulate him and expressed confidence that the relations between the two countries will get better under his leadership.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated Ranil Wickremesinghe on being sworn-in as Sri Lanka's Prime Minister.After Mr Wickremesinghe's United National Party won the Sri Lankan Parliamentary polls, the Prime Minister had called him up on August 18 to congratulate him and expressed confidence that the relations between the two countries will get better under his leadership.


Mr Wickremesinghe was today sworn in as Sri Lanka's Prime Minister for the fourth time following his party's victory in the parliamentary polls.


His victory on Monday thwarted a political comeback by the country's former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, months after he lost the presidential polls to President Maithripala Sirisena.

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