Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has congratulated Narendra Modi and the NDA on the “sweeping victory” in the Lok Sabha elections. “I pray you will be successful in meeting the challenges that lie ahead in fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the people of India,” he wrote in a letter. “India is one of the great ancient civilizations, a distinctive and fundamental feature of which has been ahimsa and karuna,” the Dalai Lama said.