PM Narendra Modi congratulates Boris Johnson on big win in UK election

Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
who is set to return to power with a thumping majority.

Wishing him the best, in a tweet, PM Modi said, he is looking forward to work together for closer India-UK ties.

Boris
Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a solid majority of seats in Britain’s
Parliament. He has won the historic UK General Election as his Conservative
Party crossed the magic number of 326 required for a majority in the
Parliament.

The victory
would mean that they will plough ahead with the Brexit, dashing all chances of
a second referendum over the issue.

This was
Britain’s third general election in a little more than four years, and the
second since the June 2016 Brexit referendum.