Italy's Meloni congratulates PM Modi on surpassing Nehru's record, recalls recent Rome meeting

NEW DELHI: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni connected Wednesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi aft helium surpassed Jawaharlal Nehru's grounds to go India's longest-serving elected Prime Minister.PM Modi completed 4,399 consecutive days successful office, overtaking Nehru's tenure arsenic an elected premier minister. He has served continuously since archetypal taking bureau successful 2014.Meloni, who shares a lukewarm rapport with Prime Minister Modi, congratulated him successful a station connected X. The 2 leaders person often drawn attraction connected societal media, wherever their affable interactions person inspired the fashionable "Melodi" nickname among net users."Congratulations to Narendra Modi who contiguous becomes the longest-serving elected Prime Minister successful the past of India," Meloni wrote.

The Italian person besides recalled PM Modi's caller sojourn to Italy, during which the 2 leaders held bilateral talks and launched a caller model for cooperation."It has been a pleasance to conscionable again successful Rome successful caller weeks and to motorboat unneurotic a Special Strategic Partnership that looks to the aboriginal to make caller opportunities for our Nations and our peoples," she added.

PM Modi visited Italy successful May, wherever a light-hearted infinitesimal betwixt the 2 leaders grabbed attraction online. During the visit, helium talented Meloni a packet of Melody toffees, a playful notation to the "Melodi" nickname that has go synonymous with their nationalist camaraderie implicit the past fewer years.