{"id":6924,"date":"2026-06-11T20:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:02:02","slug":"us-president-trump-congratulates-indian-pm-modi-on-historic-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6924","title":{"rendered":"US President Trump Congratulates Indian PM Modi on Historic Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Washington, June 11, 2026 &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump has congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he became India&#8217;s longest-serving elected prime minister in uninterrupted service, completing 4,399 consecutive days in office and surpassing the previous record held by Jawaharlal Nehru. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">In a message posted on Truth Social, Trump praised Modi as a close friend and described him as a \u201cstrong, healthy, and wise man,\u201d adding that he expects \u201cmany years of greatness and success ahead\u201d for the Indian leader. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The milestone has drawn congratulations from leaders around the world, while India&#8217;s Union Cabinet adopted a special resolution honoring Modi&#8217;s 12 years in office. Celebrations were also reported across India by supporters of the ruling party. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Responding to the message, Modi thanked Trump and reiterated his commitment to strengthening India\u2013U.S. relations, with both countries expected to continue discussions on trade, investment, energy cooperation, and visa issues. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The development comes ahead of a likely meeting between Trump and Modi on the sidelines of the upcoming G7 Summit in France, where bilateral issues are expected to be discussed.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_260611_105838_645.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, June 11, 2026 &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump has congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he became India&#8217;s longest-serving elected prime minister in uninterrupted service, completing 4,399 consecutive days in office and surpassing the previous record held by Jawaharlal Nehru. In a message posted on Truth Social, Trump praised Modi as a close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1758206708.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6926,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions\/6926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}