Sharif shared some emotional things with me: Modi

Modi said his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif shared 'emotional  things' with him during their conversation on Monday.

Modi said the visuals of his mother offering him sweets touched Sharif and his mother.

" Earlier in the evening in my conversation with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif he shared some very emotional things.  Nawaz Sharif ji told me that he stays in Islamabad but goes to meet his Mother once in a week," Modi tweeted.

" This time when he was eating with his Mother he saw visuals on TV of my Mother offering me sweets.  The visuals touched both Nawaz Sharif ji & his Mother. He told me that after seeing the visuals his Mother got very emotional," he said.

Sharif attended Modi's oath-taking ceremony in New Delhi on Monday.

In a picture perfect moment, both the leaders were seen shaking hands after the ceremony.

Amid the presence of high profile dignitaries from India and beyond its border, Narendra Modi on Monday took oath as India's 15th Prime Minister at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, capping a political carnival in the world's biggest democracy that lasted for months and saw the man of the moment's inexorable journey to the hot seat after an unprecedented electioneering.

President Pranab Mukherjee  administered the oath of office and secrecy to Modi, who became a widely accepted leader with a Midas touch in translating support into votes for his party BJP and graduating from a polarising force in Indian politics owing to the 2002 Gujarat riots, to the prime minister of a secular nation.

Mukherjee also administered the oath of office and secrecy to Modi's council of ministers in the presence of other leaders of this part of the world including Sharif and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.