PM Modi congratulates Tharman Shanmugaratnam on election as Singapore president

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the 66-year-old economist, will be Singapore’s ninth president; he won the polls with a vote share of 70.4 per cent. He defeated two Chinese-origin contenders in the country’s first contested presidential polls since 2011.

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