New Delhi, May 5 -- US President Donald Trump has congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a 'historic, decisive' victory in West Bengal where the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) won the recently-held assembly elections for the first time since Independence.

"The President congratulates Prime Minister Modi on this recent, historic, and decisive election victory," White House spokesperson Kush Desai told a news agency.

The BJP scripted history by winning 207 seats in the 294-member West Bengal assembly election, marking its first victory ever in the state. The incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress has been reduced to 80 seats in the state.

A total of 35 ministers from the outgoing government contested election...