Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched the feet of 98-year-old BJP veteran Makhanlal Sarkar and sought his blessings at the swearing-in ceremony of the party's first government in West Bengal. Modi felicitated Sarkar on stage at the Brigade Parade Grounds before the oath-taking of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, highlighting Sarkar's decades of grassroots organizational work for the BJP in the region.