Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: Prime Minister Naredra Modi and several others leaders on diffrent social media, but Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi was far from social media.Finally Rahul has an official Twitter account but it may be a while before it starts putting out tweets regulary.
In comparison, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has over 12 million followers and Aam Aadmi party chief Arvind Kejriwal has over 4.3 million. Active social media campaigns were part of their election to power.
Gandhi’s Twitter handle “Office of RG” created on Wednesday carries his profile picture, but has no bio on it. Within a day after it was created, it crossed 8,500 followers , though it is yet to send out any tweets.The Congress leader is yet to announce his account publicly but sources in his office confirmed that the account belonged to him.
Sources said Gandhi had stayed away from Twitter so far as he was apprehensive of being trolled by hired and freelance followers of political rivals. Already knives are out for him in twitterdom. ‘Arrogance Personified , He didn’t open his account, instead @OfficeOfRG.. Behaving like a monarch,’ said a tweet from @piyushkaul. “Breaking: Rahul Gandhi is on Twitter now: @OfficeOfRG. Direct your jokes here,” tweeted @GabbbarSingh.
