Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulates Arvind Kejriwal, assures him support

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called up Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal and congratulated him on his thumping victory in Delhi and assured him of all support from the Centre for development of the national capital.

"Spoke to @ArvindKejriwal & congratulated him on the win. Assured him Centre's complete support in the development of Delhi," Modi tweeted.

His tweet came as trends showed a massive victory for AAP in Delhi polls in which BJP was decimated.

BJP had emerged as the single largest party in the last Assembly polls in December 2013.

Kejriwal, while thanking Modi for the greetings, said he would like to meet him soon to discuss issues related to Delhi.

He told the Prime Minister that he will need the Centre's help.

Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said since the people have voted in favour of AAP, "it is the responsibility of the central government to give all assistance to AAP to run the Delhi government".

He said the people of Delhi should feel that both the Centre and state government have "joined hands" for the developmental activities in the national capital.

He was asked to react on the results of the Delhi assembly election.

Spoke to @ArvindKejriwal & congratulated him on the win. Assured him Centre's complete support in the development of Delhi.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 10, 2015

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