Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended best wishes to Chennai-born Sundar Pichai on becoming the new CEO of Google’s new umbrella firm ‘Alphabet’.

“Congratulations @sundarpichai. My best wishes for the new role at @google,” he tweeted.

The technology giant co-founder Larry Page announced the formation of a new umbrella firm ‘Alphabet’, of which Google will be a part.

Page announced the formation of the new parent company Alphabet in a blog post, of which he will be the CEO and Google co-founder Sergey Brin will be the President.

Sundar Pichai has been named CEO of the new Google.