Tokyo [Japan], February 9 (ANI): Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his congratulatory message following her coalition’s decisive victory in Sunday’s election in Japan’s decrease home, the House of Representatives, whereas reaffirming Tokyo’s dedication to strengthening ties with India for advancing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP).
In a publish on X, Prime Minister Takaichi, who led the coalition together with her occasion, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which gained a two-thirds majority in the home, thanked Prime Minister Modi for his message and underscored her intent to proceed shut cooperation with India.
‘Thank you very a lot, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on your heat congratulations on the House of Representatives election. I look ahead to persevering with to work along with you to strengthen the Special Strategic and Global Partnership between Japan and India and to cooperate in realising a Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP),’ she stated. She additionally expressed her gratitude to PM Modi in Hindi in the identical publish.
According to Kyodo News, the LDP gained a mandate, securing 310 seats within the 465-member decrease home, which permits the occasion to pursue constitutional revision and go laws even whether it is rejected by the higher home, the House of Councillors. The ruling coalition nonetheless stays in a minority within the higher home. The LDP has additionally develop into the primary occasion in postwar Japan to attain such a margin.
Following the projection in Sunday’s snap elections, which famous that the Takaichi-led coalition is ready to have a decisive win, Prime Minister Narendra Modi prolonged heat congratulations to the Japanese Prime Minister, emphasising that India-Japan ties stay important for advancing international peace, stability, and shared prosperity by their strong 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 strains of effort for the subsequent decade.
‘Congratulations, Sanae Takaichi, in your landmark victory within the elections to the House of Representatives! Our Special Strategic and Global Partnership performs a significant position in enhancing international peace, stability and prosperity. I’m assured that below your ready management, we’ll proceed to take the India-Japan friendship to higher heights,’ PM Modi acknowledged in his publish.
The congratulatory message got here as projections indicated that Takaichi’s ruling coalition is ready to safe a historic win in Japan’s decrease home elections, with a two-thirds majority.
India and Japan laid out eight instructions to steer their Special Strategic and Global Partnership over the subsequent 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.
The landslide end result marks a pointy improve from the occasion’s pre-election energy of 198 seats and was extensively attributed to Takaichi’s private reputation.
The LDP and its coalition companion, the Japan Innovation Party (JIP), will collectively command a dominant presence within the chamber, reinforcing Takaichi’s place after she took workplace in October, changing into the nation’s first lady prime minister.
‘We bear an especially heavy duty to concentrate on steadily delivering on the marketing campaign pledges we’ve made,’ Takaichi stated throughout a tv programme after the victory was reported, as quoted by Kyodo News.
The election delivered a serious setback to the newly shaped Centrist Reform Alliance, whose seats had been halved from 167 earlier than the vote.
Its co-leaders, Yoshihiko Noda and Tetsuo Saito, hinted at doable resignations following the defeat, Kyodo News reported.
Among smaller events, the populist Sanseito, campaigning on a ‘Japanese First’ platform, gained 13 seats, up from two, whereas Team Mirai, which promotes digital know-how to spice up political participation, entered the decrease home for the primary time with 9 seats, Kyodo News reported. (ANI)