Lok Sabha polls 2019: Key Twitter warriors for BJP, Congress

New Delhi, March 12

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With the political heat on and parties gearing up for the Twitter war to convey their messages to their voters, some key figures are set to hold the fort on the open communication platform that has over 3.4 crore users in the country.

There are, however, some key influencers who are going to spread the election keywords in the run-up to the seven-phase parliamentary election starting April 11.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a 13-member National IT and Social Media Campaign Committee headed by national vice-president Shyam Jaju, who is very active in Twitter.

The BJP Social Media Committee has IT Cell head Amit Malviya with 260K followers. Currently struggling with the task to up the hacked BJP website, Malviya is an avid tweeter. Other top BJP tweeters are national spokesperson Nupur Sharma (176K followers), Khemchand Sharma (27.4K followers) and Vijay Chauthaiwale (25.3K followers), who is in charge of the party’s Foreign Affairs Department.

The Congress camp has Divya Spandana (813K followers), who is heading the Social Media Cell and does not skip any opportunity to take a jibe on the BJP and its policies.

The Congress Social Media Cell has five convenors—Hasiba Amin, Ruchira Chaturvedi, Saral Patel, Pranav Vachharajani and Zoheb Shaikh.

When it comes to creating an impact in Twitter, Randeep Singh Surjewala (714K followers), who’s in-charge of the Congress' Communication Department, is leading the pack.

Priyanka Chaturvedi (639K followers), who is AICC communication convenor and the party’s national Spokesperson, and Sanjay Jha (376K followers) are other names creating waves in the micro-blogging platform. IANS