Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah for winning the Assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. 

"Congratulations to honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party for the victory in the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections. The Congress, which had claimed it would wrest power from the BJP in Gujarat, has ended up losing even Himachal Pradesh," Mr Kumar tweeted in Hindi. 

The Bihar Chief Minister had earlier in the day spoke to PM Modi and Amit Shah over phone and extended greetings for the poll victory in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, PTI reported citing an official release.