President Maithripala Sirisena participated in the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who secured a landslide victory in Lok Sabha Elections 2019 yesterday. The grand ceremony was held at Rashtrapathi Bhavan where President Sirisena extended his congratulations to Prime Minister Modi. Indian President Ram Nath Kovind looks on.President Maithripala Sirisena participated in the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who secured a landslide victory in Lok Sabha Elections 2019 yesterday. The grand ceremony was held at Rashtrapathi Bhavan where President Siris Prime Minister Narendra Modi could make a short visit to Sri Lanka on his way to or back from the Maldives in early June, during his first visit overseas in his second term, LiveMint reported yesterday .The LiveMint report further said, while his visit to the Maldives would underline the primacy of neighbours and India’s neighbourhood in foreign policy during Modi’s second term in office, the brief stop in Colombo is expected to convey India’s solidarity with Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings in April.