Gujarat Elections Trending On Twitter

Gujarat, December 20: Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerged as the most mentioned personality on Twitter during the course of Gujarat elections, followed by Congress President Rahul Gandhi, showed Twitter data which recorded over 1.9 million mentions of the elections on the platform since December 1.

The data revealed on Tuesday also showed that though the Congress campaign for the election focused on goods and services tax (GST) and demonetization, people were more interested in topics related to development and Hindutva.

While the Congress President was the second most mentioned personality after Modi, Patidar leader Hardik Patel took the fourth position while BJP President Amit Shah was third.

Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani emerged as the most mentioned candidate on the platform.

The data also reflect that the Twitterati keenly followed the fate of Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and OBC leader Alpesh Thakore as they emerged as the second and third most mentioned candidates respectively.