PM Modi calls out Putin: Both leaders decided to further up efforts to broaden the India-Russia “Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership” during their phone call.
On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin received a phone call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulating him once more on his reelection to the top position. Both leaders decided to further up efforts to broaden the India-Russia “Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership” during their phone call. PM Modi shared on X the contents of his discussion with President Putin, writing, “I spoke with President Putin and congratulated him on being re-elected as the President of the Russian Federation. In the upcoming years, we have decided to collaborate in order to strengthen and broaden the India-Russia Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership.”Spoke with President Putin and congratulated him on his re-election as the President of the Russian Federation. We agreed to work together to further deepen and expand India-Russia Special & Privileged Strategic Partnership in the years ahead. @KremlinRussia
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 20, 2024
In a post on X earlier on Monday, Prime Minister Modi congratulated President Putin on his reelection and expressed his excitement for further deepening the strategic alliance and people-to-people connections between Russia and India.
PM Modi earlier posted from his X handle, “Warm congratulations to H.E. Mr. Vladimir Putin on his re-election as the President of the Russian Federation.”
“Look forward to working together to further strengthen the time-tested Special & Privileged Strategic Partnership between India and Russia in the years to come. @KremlinRussia,” he tweeted.
Putin received 87.17 percent of the votes in Sunday’s presidential election, according to the results of processing 70 percent of the voting protocols. This information was reported by Russia-based TASS, which used data from the Russian Federation’s Central Election Commission.
With 4.1 percent of the vote, Nikolai Kharitonov, the candidate for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, took second place, and Vladislav Davankov, the candidate for the New People Party, came in third with 4.8 percent.
Leonid Slutsky, the candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), only garnered 3.15 percent of the total votes tallied.
Compared to the 2018 elections, when he won 76.69% of the votes tabulated, Putin secured a higher number of votes. Reports state that the other contenders’ 2018 performance was worse than that of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s prior rivals.
This was the first Russian presidential election to use remote electronic voting. In 28 areas, voters used the federal program, but Moscow voters used their own platform.
Ninety-four percent of voters cast ballots online on the federal platform, which translates to 4.4 million votes. Nearly 3.7 million electronic ballots were cast in Moscow, including those cast by voters using specialized terminals at polling places.
Putin led Russia to four consecutive terms as president. First elected in 2000, he was re-elected in 2004, 2012, and 2018.
