PM Narendra Modi has been an active twitter user since years now. After Obama left the Presidency early this year, PM Narendra Modi became the most followed world leader on twitter. As of now, he has a total of 33.8 million followers.
Now, talking about his following, being a PM he is expected to follow top bureaucrats, leaders of other nations, and other such personalities. His total following count is 1779, which includes all the expected personalities along with a few users who are a blot on social media.
The issue of our PM following abrupt abusers and hate mongers recently hogged the limelight again when one of the users he follows tweeted out an abusive post for Gauri Lankesh, a journalist who was killed recently for her staunch take against the right wing. This has prompted even the international media to take jibe at our PM. Global media houses including The New York Times and The Guardian questioned PM Narendra Modi for following ‘creeps’ on Twitter.
This is what the NY Times tweeted on one of its account!
Should P.M. Modi follow a man who tweeted this? “One bitch dies a dog’s death all the puppies cry in the same tune.” https://t.co/XC0Kb5LbwZ
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) September 9, 2017
The Guardian too reported the complete story!
This is what The Global Times had to say!
The Quartz reported about the #BlockNarendraModi hashtag that was trending on Twitter on September 7
Complete article
It wasn’t for the first time though, as our PM had been criticised for following abusers and hate mongers earlier as well. To elaborate it further, let’s have a look at all the infamous troll accounts PM Narendra Modi follows on twitter with a few of their hate tweets.
Women Abusers
The list of abusers and hate mongers followed by our PM is way too long. So, we’ll categorically show you tweets of a few of them who take pride in getting followed by our PM and keep showing their real side every now and then. These people abused all the left wing activists and other critics of the present government and yet remain to be followed by our PM.
Rana Ayyub has been at the receiving end of it on many occasions. Here is one guy who abused Rana Ayyub for apparently no sensible reason!
Sagarika Ghose wasn’t spared by him either!
And then there is this Ramki who went on to term Rana Ayyub a terrorist just because she complained about a delayed flight!
This guy posted a photo of journalist Neha Dixit with her husband Nakul Sawhney but apparently forgot that a husband and wife are bound to share the same bedroom
Of course you can’t miss out abuses on Sonia Gandhi!
This tweet was posted before Narendra Modi became the PM. Strangely, the PM still opts to follow him!
Abuses were hurled at almost every opposition leader. From former VP, Hamid Ansari, to AAP supremo, Arvind Kejriwal, everyone received a bit of hammering on twitter from the people our PM follows.
This handle just did not have the slightest of sense what a Vice President means!
Need more?
It wasn’t just for the leaders, supporters too had to face the ugly brunt!
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Communal Hatred Spreading Handles
A handle which was followed by PM Modi asked his followers to kill 3000 Muslims. He was arrested by police which made the BJP deny his association with them. This handle named Amitesh Singh claimed to be a BJP youth leader. Then again, the question remains, why did PM Modi follow him if BJP had no connections with him? Many such handles which PM Modi follows or used to follow ignited the fire of communal hatred and eventually were suspended from twitter for the same.
This handle too stands suspended now!
Just to tell you the effect of this tweet!
And then this!
Rumour mongers
Lots and lots of rumours that ruled the social media lately were triggered by yet again the users whom our PM follows. The list is long, occasions endless! To top that off, there were no traces of an apology from any of them even after they were proved wrong.
In this case, the UP Government’s official twitter handle had to intervene to control the rumour!
This was too much!
Now have a look at this! All these handles were busy in spreading the rumour of a doctor getting lynched by a Muslim mob
If you believe our PM’s twitter handle is managed by someone else, in response to an RTI, the PMO had stated at “PM Modi himself tweets and posts content on his personal Twitter and Facebook accounts”.
Again, if you feel our PM doesn’t keep a check on his followers, have a look at this tweet! This lady was followed by PM Narendra Modi until she had a quarrel with BJP’s Delhi Spokesperson, Tajinder Bagga.
Welcome to @narendramodi s #NewIndia .I get unfollowed by PM instead of getting justice.He makes molester spokie n unfollows victim
— Dr Jwala Gurunath (@DrJwalaG) March 26, 2017
The question that arises out of this is why our PM doesn’t unfollow any of them? Maybe because he has met many of them personally and everyone of them help him maintain hid vote bank by suppressing the failures of his government on social media. But all this is surely too much now!
All this has not been compiled up to malign our PM by any means, it is just to ask our PM to maintain the dignity he holds and represent our country in the right manner. Surely, none of his global followers would expect him to follow such people.
We just hope PM Narendra Modi accepts our plea and stops following all these unworthy twitter users.
