With elections not far away, the turf wars have begun, especially on Twitter. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has beaten Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor to become the most popular Indian politician on the social networking website.
The Modi fanclub is overjoyed. "Modi is the most popular leader of the nation, it is obvious as he is leading on Twitter as well," said BJP leader Vijay Sonkar Shashtri.
Shashi Tharoor, who was one of the first politicians to get on to Twitter, was on the top of the leaderboard for many years. But Modi, with 1,821,1119 followers has now taken the lead, while Tharoor retains the second position with 1,820728 fans.
But when it comes to political competition on social media, global competition still seems like a faraway dream, with US President Barack Obama being followed by close to 33 million people.
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