Heartiest congratulations to Excellency Yoshihide Suga on the appointment as Prime Minister of Japan: Modi

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has congratulated Excellency Yoshihide Suga on the appointment as Prime Minister of Japan.

In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, "Heartiest congratulations to Excellency Yoshihide Suga on the appointment as Prime Minister of Japan. I look forward to jointly taking our Special Strategic and Global Partnership to new heights."

Suga was designated as the 99th Prime Minister of Japan after Shinzo Abe's Cabinet resigns en mass. Suga belongs to the Liberal Democratic Party.

According to reports, Suga is 71-year-old and he is the oldest prime minister to take office since Kiichi Miyazawa in 1991.

According to the website of the Government of Japan, on September 16, at the Cabinet meeting, "the Prime Minister collected the letters of resignation from the Cabinet members and decided on the resignation en masse of the Cabinet. Afterward, the Prime Minister issued a statement on the occasion of the resignation en masse of the Cabinet."