India's Mariyappan Thangavelu poses after winning the gold medal in the men's final high jump - T42 during the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Pic/ AFP

New Delhi: From Prime Minister Narendra Modi to India's lone individual Olympic gold-medallist Abhinav Bindra, congratulatory messages poured in from all corners for Rio Paralympic Games' T-42 high-jump gold-medallist Mariyappan Thangavelu and bronze winner Varun Bhati.