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New Delhi: The number of Twitter followers of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi have almost stopped growing since August 2021. His total number of followers hover around the 20 million mark currently. Gandhi alleges it may have something to do with him being a vocal Opposition leader the government wants to silence. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year crossed 70 million Twitter followers and the BJP says he is the “ most followed head of state ” in the world. ThePrint explains why a concerned Gandhi wrote about the matter to Twitter and why social media reach is beginning to matter more and more in politics, so much so that politicians actually complain when their follower count does not grow. Also read: Gandhi writes to Twitter CEO In a letter dated 27 December and seen by ThePrint, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wrote to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, congratulating him on being appointed CEO. “We feel proud that one of our own has reached this summit,” he wrote. Gandhi’s letter then said, “…it is perplexing that the growth in my Twitter followers has suddenly been suppressed.” The letter says that in May 2021, Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account gained around 6,40,000 new followers. But since August 2021, the average number of new followers gained every month is “nearly zero”. A Congress member shared with ThePrint a detailed analysis of new follower counts. It shows new followers gained every month for the accounts of Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and...

The power of poor people defeated the might of crony capitalists and it will be repeated in other elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi announced hours after “I am happy we contested the Karnataka polls without using hate, bad language. We fought the polls with love. In Karnataka, ‘ nafrat ka bazaar’ (market of hate) has closed down’ and ‘ mohabbat ki dukaanein’ (shops of love) have opened,” Mr Gandhi said amidst loud cheers from party workers and bursting of crackers at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters. Watch | How the Congress celebrated | Karnataka election results “This is the victory of everyone, Firstly of the people of Karnataka. We have made five promises to the people of Karnataka and we will fulfil these promises on the first day and in the first cabinet meeting,” he added. The 2023 results are also the Congress’ best-ever performance since 1999, when S M Krishna became the Chief Minister after the party had won 132 seats. The spectacular win in Karnataka, riding on its campaign of five guarantees, has provided some key lessons for the next round of Assembly elections in states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The Guarantee route to victory “It was during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, from the many conversations @RahulGandhi had with the people of Karnataka, that Taking a cue from Karnataka’s poll guarantees, Madhya Pradesh Congress has already started registering women voters for the Nari Samman Yojana that two components: direct t...

NEW YORK— Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi pressed his criticism of the country’s leadership in a speech Sunday, calling for Indians in the U.S. and back home to stand up for democracy and the Indian constitution. Gandhi, a sharp critic of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was expelled from Parliament, accused Modi and his Bharativa Janata Party (BJP) of dividing the country and failing to focus on important issues such as unemployment and education. “To be nasty to people, to be arrogant, to be violent, these are not Indian values,” Gandhi, 52, told a crowd of about 700 at the Indian Overseas Congress USA event at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan. He spoke just after a minute of silence recognizing a Gandhi has been on a three-city tour of the United States, including speaking engagements at Stanford University in California and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, U.S. congressional leaders have Grandson of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi is a member of the Indian National Congress party. He is considered to be Modi’s main challenger in the upcoming 2024 elections. “Modern India cannot exist without our constitution and our democracy,” he said Sunday. He also urged a stronger partnership between India and the U.S. to offset China’s influence. “One of the things we have to think about is the bridge between India and the United States,” he said. “How do we compete with the challenge the Chinese have placed on the ta...

BJP chief J P Nadda Wednesday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of trying to tarnish the country’s image on foreign soil with his recent remarks on Indian democracy and reminded him that it was his grandmother Indira Gandhi who had imposed the Emergency. Nadda was addressing a rally here as part of the BJP’s ‘Maha Jan Sampark’ programme to mark the completion of nine years of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. Earlier, the BJP president made similar remarks at a rally in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district. In Hoshiarpur, he also listed the work of the Modi government, saying the kind of work done in the past nine years was never done in 70 years in the country. Nadda said it was only his party which has an ideology and which is a cadre-based party while the rest of the political outfits lack any ideology. It is sad to say that when Modi ji is brightening the image of India worldwide, our Rahul Gandhi, ‘Yuvraj of Congress’, is hell-bent upon trying to tarnish the image of the country," he said. Nadda said Rahul Gandhi is stating in London that Indian democracy is in danger. “Will they (Britishers) save it who ruled us (India) for 200 years? And will he save it (democracy) whose grandmother imposed the Emergency," he said. “You speak about democracy whose words were rebuked by the court and even then, the public listens to you and tolerates you. What could be bigger than this in a democracy? asked Nadda. The BJP chief was referring to Gandhi’s remarks made in Lond...

By Press Trust of India: The BJP has filed a defamation complaint against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court. The special court exclusively to deal with criminal cases related to elected former and sitting MPs/MLAs has taken cognisance of the offences under Sections 499 (defamation) and 500 (punishment for defamation) of the Indian Penal Code and posted the case for recording the sworn statement on July 27. The private complaint alleging false claims in advertisements tarnishing the image of the BJP was filed by the party's state secretary S Keshavaprasad on May 9. According to the complaint, the advertisement released by the KPCC in major newspapers on May 5, 2023 in the run-up to the Assembly election claiming that the then incumbent BJP government indulged in "40 per cent corruption" and had looted Rs 1.5 lakh crore in the previous four years was "baseless, prejudiced and defamatory". Also Read |

As the BJP on Tuesday hinted at Rahul Gandhi's role behind BJP's Sambit Patra posted a cartoon saying there is no point in guessing who is pulling the strings of Jack Dorsey. BJP's Sambit Patra shared a cartoon in which Rahul Gandhi is seen as a puppeteer with the strings pulling Jack Dorsey. "No points for guessing, we all know who is pulling the strings," Sambit Patra tweeted. "Not an MP, not a minister, not the PM, not the Opposition Party President. Just a citizen and yet can control the strings, as per this tweet. Isn't that a spectacular failure of PM and GoI?!" Shiv Sena (Uddhab Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote. 'Many requests around farmers' protests' In an interview on a YouTube channel, Jack Dorsey said when he was heading Twitter, the company received many requests around farmers' protests. The Indian government threatened Twitter with raids on employees and shutdown threats if it did not take down posts flagged by the government. "It manifested in ways such as: 'We will shut Twitter down in India', which is a very large market for us; 'we will raid the homes of your employees', which they did; And this is India, a democratic country," Jack Dorsey said. The government dismissed the claims and IT minister of state Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that Twitter at that time was misusing its power. During the farmers' protest, Twitter 'weaponised misinformation and it started complying with Indian laws only in 2022. Terming Jack Dorsey's claims as absolute...