New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday prolonged heat congratulations to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi following her ruling coalition’s projected historic victory in snap elections for Japan’s decrease home, the House of Representatives, emphasising that India-Japan ties stay very important for advancing international peace, stability, and shared prosperity by way of their sturdy Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
In a publish on X, Prime Minister Modi congratulated Takaichi on her projected landmark electoral win and reaffirmed the significance of the partnership that established eight all-nation traces of effort for the following decade.
‘Congratulations, Sanae Takaichi, in your landmark victory within the elections to the House of Representatives! Our Special Strategic and Global Partnership performs an important position in enhancing international peace, stability and prosperity. I’m assured that underneath your in a position management, we are going to proceed to take the India-Japan friendship to better heights,’ PM Modi said in his publish.
The congratulatory message got here as projections indicated that Prime Minister Takaichi’s ruling coalition is ready to safe a historic win in Japan’s decrease home elections, with a two-thirds majority.
According to Kyodo News, the ruling get together underneath PM Takaichi, who turned the nation’s first feminine Prime Minister in October final 12 months, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is poised for a commanding victory within the nation’s snap election held on Sunday, in keeping with exit polls.
Kyodo News, citing its projections, said that the ruling LDP, along with its coalition companion, the Japan Innovation Party (JIP), is poised to safe a supermajority of as much as two-thirds of the 465 seats within the decrease home of the National Diet, considerably surpassing the 233 seats required for a easy majority.
Amid persistent inflation and a difficult worldwide atmosphere, Takaichi has vowed to pursue a ‘accountable but aggressive’ fiscal coverage whereas strengthening the nation’s defence capabilities forward of the final election.
According to Kyodo News, the LDP is ready to win over 300 of 465 seats within the decrease home, surpassing the brink required to chair all standing committees and outnumbering the opposition on key panels, which might assist push by way of its legislative agenda.
The primary opposition, the newly fashioned Centrist Reform Alliance, which brings collectively decrease home members of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) and Komeito, is predicted to lose a major variety of seats, in keeping with polls.
Meanwhile, the populist Sanseito get together, recognized for its ‘Japanese First’ slogan, is predicted to make substantial positive factors, whereas Team Mirai, which advocates utilizing digital applied sciences to spice up political participation, is ready to safe its first seat within the chamber, Kyodo News reported.
Nearly 1,300 candidates are contesting 465 seats: 289 are elected from single-seat constituencies, and 176 are elected by way of proportional illustration throughout 11 regional blocks.
India and Japan laid out eight instructions to steer their Special Strategic and Global Partnership over the following decade on August 29, 2025, throughout PM Modi’s go to to Japan for the India-Japan Annual Summit 2025.
According to the joint imaginative and prescient, the 2 sides reaffirm their shared dedication to a free, open, peaceable, affluent, and rules-based Indo-Pacific.
Both sides additionally set a brand new goal of JPY 10 trillion in Japanese personal funding in India, with a deal with financial safety, resilient provide chains and cooperation in semiconductors, crucial minerals, clear vitality and rising applied sciences.
The launch of the Next Generation Mobility Partnership, protecting high-speed rail, sensible cities, logistics, and sustainable infrastructure, and a robust emphasis on local weather motion, clear vitality, the round financial system, and net-zero pathways, was additionally adopted.
The growth of know-how and innovation cooperation in AI, quantum, house, nuclear vitality, and startups, and the enhancement of well being cooperation, together with UHC, medical analysis, medicines, and conventional programs like Ayurveda, had been additionally pursued underneath the imaginative and prescient. (ANI)