Published 00:37 IST, November 8th 2020

PM Modi congratulates Joe Biden & Kamala Harris on winning US Presidential Elections 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the 2020 US Election and becoming the person-in-line to become the 46th President of the US

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Joe Biden on winning 2020 US Election and becoming person-in-line to become 46th President of United States unseating incumbent Donald Trump.

PM Modi has tweeted a photo of pair of m from his visit to US when Biden was Barack Obama's Vice President and hailed his n contributions to strengning India-US relations.

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Prime Minister has also congratulated Indian-origin Kamala Harris who will be first woman Vice President of US, highlighting significance of her achievement.

Joe Biden was declared winner as per projections of numerous US media networks almost four days after polling closed, with mail-in ballots still being counted in some states. It was his home state Pennsylvania that finally delivered victory to him, pushing him over critical 270-electoral college votes mark.

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While he will formally assume Presidency in January 2021, re is still small matter of Trump refusing to cleanly concede election, last heard claiming that it was he who won election and claiming that mail-in ballots h defrauded American people. Regardless, a raft of world leers have congratulated Joe Biden and American people have taken to streets to celebrate - probably t best idea given that US is country worst-hit by Coronavirus crisis with record numbers of new cases w being reported on a daily basis. Biden has stated he would take decisive action on Covid as soon as he becomes President.

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(Picture Credit: @NarendraModi)

00:37 IST, November 8th 2020