New Delhi: In yet another achievement for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the CM’s official Twitter handle @myogioffice has crossed the 8 million followers mark. The Twitter account of Yogi Adityanath’s office is second in terms of number of followers after the PMO. Besides, CM Yogi’s another Twitter handle @myogiadityanath has more than 2.25 crore followers.
It is noteworthy that Yogi’s popularity transcends borders and lately his face has become a guarantee of victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party in elections not only in UP, but in other states of the country also. Lakhs of people throng his public meetings to see and hear him. Chief Minister Yogi personally interacts with the people and is available available virtually 24×7.
Chief Minister Yogi is active on almost all social media platforms and is far ahead of other Chief Ministers of the country, major leaders of opposition parties and even the world’s big leaders in terms of number of followers on social media.
Yogi far ahead of opposition leaders in terms of followers on social media
Yogi Adityanath’s personal Twitter handle @myogiadityanath recently overtook former Congress President Rahul Gandhi (2.2 crore) in terms of number of followers on the microblogging site. Chief opposition leader in Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav (1.76 crore) is already far behind CM Yogi’s personal Twitter account on all social media platforms including Twitter. The number of followers of Yogi Adityanath on Twitter is more than four times of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (51 lakh) and more than 7 times of Mayawati (29 lakh).
No chief ministers or leader of any state is even close to CM Yogi in terms of followers on Twitter. Yogi Adityanath is seven times ahead of Sharad Pawar (27 lakhs) and three times ahead of Mamata Banerjee (70 lakhs). Yogi has about 15 times more followers than Uddhav Thackeray (15 lakhs), and is 5 times ahead of Ashok Gehlot (43 lakhs).
Yogi has highest number of followers on Koo app
CM Yogi also has 60 lakh followers on the Koo app, the highest for any person so far on the app. On an average 6 posts are posted daily from Yogi’s handle on the app. Chief Minister Yogi made his debut on this app on February 9, 2021. According to the management of the app, Yogi is followed by people from 28 states and more than 70 countries on this app.
No politician or actor is even close to CM Yogi in terms of popularity on the social media app. Besides, the popularity of the CM Office UP account on this app is also no less. The account has more than 8.27 lakh followers.
Yogi also on top in terms of popularity on Instagram and Facebook
Apart from Twitter and Koo, Yogi’s popularity is also on top on social media networks like Facebook and Instagram. On Facebook, MYogiAdityanath has more than 73 lakh followers while myogi_adityanath has more than 37 lakh followers on Instagram. CM Yogi had posted 3,157 from this account till Saturday afternoon.
Yogi’s office account second after PMO
Yogi Adityanath’s office account on Twitter is the second largest after Prime Minister Modi’s office account. The office accounts of other chief ministers is no where in the competition. PM Modi’s office account @PMOIndia has more than 5.14 crore followers. Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel’s office account has only 5 lakh followers, while Odisha CM’s office has only 13 lakh followers.
CMO Telangana has 14 lakh, CMO Tamil Nadu has 18 lakh, CMO Rajasthan has 19 lakh and CMO Andhra Pradesh has about 9.5 lakh followers. In BJP ruled states, CMO Gujarat has 10 lakh followers and CMO Maharashtra has 37 lakh followers.
All Yogi followers are organic
Yogi Adityanath is active on all major social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Koo. The most important thing is that on all the accounts of Yogi Adityanath on social media, his followers are organic with people following him on their own. He usually uses Hindi language and his own style to communicate with people, but sometimes he speaks in other languages as well. For example, he made some tweets in Tamil language regarding the Kashi-Tamil Samagam going to be held in Varanasi on Friday itself. This art of conveying his words to the people takes him to the top of popularity.
