Celebrations after Modi's swearing in, congratulations pour in

Kumar said he has “great expectations” from the new Union government and Bihar should get special category status and special package.

Kumar and Modi had not missed any opportunity to attack each other politically since last year and Modi's elevation in the BJP had prompted Kumar to pull JD(U) out of NDA in June last year after being in it for 17 years.

Denied of any relief from the UPA-II government, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee too pinned her hopes on the new BJP government.

"They (the Centre) were taking away all the money. The new government is coming - let's see what happens," Banerjee, who has been critical of Modi and skipped the swearing in ceremony, said at a government function here.

Virbhadra Singh said that Modi was well aware of the problems of the people of Himachal Pradesh and its topography and expressed hope that the state would get special central assistance under the new government.