Actor Riteish Deshmukh and son of late Maharashtra chief minister and union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, has congratulated Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar for the `stupendous` victory of the Grand Alliance in the Bihar assembly elections.

The actor took to Twitter to share his views after the election results came in on Sunday.

`Congratulations @NitishKumar ji on the stupendous victory. RJD is the single largest party in Bihar - Congratulations @laluprasadrjd ji - the architect of this victory,` Riteish tweeted.


Meanwhile, Pritish Nandy also shared that he is `Watching Grand Alliance press conference. @NitishKumar statesmanlike, self assured.

`Barfi!` director Anurag Basu was also happy with the results and posted: `Happy with #BiharResults otherwise coming West Bengal election would have been very communal."