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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 19
In an indication of a new turn in India-Nepal ties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated his Nepalese counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba after he won the vote of confidence in Nepal’s House of Representatives by an emphatic margin on Sunday.
PM Modi tweeted his congratulations to Deuba on Sunday night after even some close associates of the previous incumbent KP Oli broke ranks to give him 165 votes in the 275-member House as against his original support base of 149 MPs.
PM Modi followed up his message with a call to Deuba on Monday in which he hoped the two leaders will work together to further enhance the wide-ranging cooperation between the two countries, including in the fight against the pandemic.