Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has unfollowed over 50 individuals on Twitter, together with just a few of his aides, journalists and a few seen as essential of him. This is in distinction to the social media coverage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who continues to observe many opposition leaders, together with those that are essential of him and his authorities.
Government sources cited the examples of opposition leaders reminiscent of Navjot Singh Sidhu and Kirti Azad, who the PM follows from his private deal with on Twitter, although their tweets are sometimes essential of him. The PM has continued to observe them after they left the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) just a few years in the past and crossed over to the Opposition camp. Another such instance is of Pradyot Bora, who stop the BJP in 2015 and based the Liberal Democratic Party — however the PM continues to observe him on Twitter. Udit Raj, one other BJP chief who left the occasion to affix the Congress and is extraordinarily essential of the Modi authorities, is adopted by the PM. Modi additionally follows on Twitter Delhi Chief Minister (CM) Arvind Kejriwal, who previously had termed him a “liar and a psychopath” in a publish, the sources identified. The PM, in reality, additionally follows Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who’s his greatest critic.
“When Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014, we found that the old Prime Minister’s Office Twitter account had blocked hundreds of individuals. All of them were unblocked under the new regime in an elaborate exercise,” a senior authorities official informed News18.
The PM additionally follows many Opposition leaders who criticise him and the central authorities persistently, however had been earlier a part of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Examples embody former Jammu and Kashmir CM and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who resigned as a Minister within the Union Cabinet final yr together with her occasion quitting the NDA. Ex-Janata Dal (United) chief Sharad Yadav, Haryana Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda and Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh are additionally adopted by Modi, together with many Congress leaders reminiscent of Shashi Tharoor, Randeep Surjewala, Digvijaya Singh, Ajay Maken, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Prithivraj Chavan, Milind Deora, RPN Singh and the late Ahmed Patel.
Modi additionally follows on Twitter former Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy, former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav, former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav and former Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, who pull again no punches in the case of taking up the PM. Modi’s private deal with additionally follows all CMs and Deputy CMs, together with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Delhi’s Deputy CM, Manish Sisodia. The PM additionally makes it a degree to observe younger opposition leaders such because the Trinamool Congress’s Abhishek Banerjee and the Shiv Sena’s Aditya Thackeray.
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