"This Sunday, thinking of giving up my social media accounts": PM Modi's big announcement

In an intriguing development on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday anunced that he is "thinking" of giving up his social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube on Sunday. PM Modi made this anuncement on his official Twitter account. He added, "Will keep you all posted."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is one of most followed politicians across social media platforms. He has 53.3 million followers on Twitter while his official Facebook p is liked by more than 44M users. Prime Minister has 35.2 million followers on Instagram and his YouTube channel has more than 4.5 million subscribers.

BJP Spokesperson Nupur Sharma responded to PM Modi's tweet and wrote, "t at all Narendra Modi ji - please reconsider!" 

'I cant speak on it'

BJP National Spokesperson Sambit Patra appearing on Republic TV's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami's show ' Debate' said, "I have to restrain myself from commenting on this because until and unless I am briefed, I cant speak on it. We have whole day tomorrow, we can talk about it. Panelists and experts on show can speak but as a responsible National Spokesperson, I cant."

' world admires him for his insightful, visionary messs'

BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia also took to Twitter to express his views about PM Modi's anuncement. He said that if PM Modi's decision "if taken" will be a "very big loss for social media world and for common man" He said, "If re is one person who has very effectively used social media for nation building, it is Narendra Modi ji" and added that, " world admires him for his insightful, visionary messs."

At time of filing this story, his tweet was retweeted over 10,000 times on Twitter and was liked by over 30,000 users.

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