After Modi's 'democracy is the real winner' remark, Amit Shah came up with his own.
Ravi Shastri congratulated Narendra Modi and Amit Sha for BJP's landslide win in the UP elections in his inimitable style and got an equally witty response from the Prime Minister and the BJP chief. Shastri, whose official twitter handle is @RaviShastriOfc, congratulated the Prime Minister using his favourite cliche 'Tracer Bullet'. "Congratulations @BJP4India on the landslide win in UP. The pair of PM @narendramodi & @AmitShah went past 300-mark like a #TracerBullet," Shastri wrote on his twitter page tagging official twitter handles of PM Modi and BJP president Amit Shah.
Modi's response was in typical Shastri style. "Thank you. UP polls did not quite go down to the wire. But, at the end of the day democracy is indeed the real winner! :)" While Narendra Modi replied with a comment playing on Shashtri’s ‘cricket is the real winner’ phrase, Amit Shah also thanked the former Indian captain.
He wrote: “Thank you @RaviShastriOfc. Team BJP piled up 300+ on the back of many singles that our karyakartas and Modi government took along the way.”
The analogy drawn by the Prime Minister was from Shastri's oft-repeated statement "Cricket is the real winner". Modi's response saw over 3000 retweets and more than 6000 likes by late evening. Shastri's 'Tracer Bullet' has been so popular that BCCI had started a contest with all current India players trying to imitate their former Team Director taking the 'Tracer Bullet Challenge'.
Riding on the Modi wave, the BJP got 312 seats in Uttar Pradesh, while its allies the Apna Dal(S) bagged nine seats and the SBSP four, taking the total tally of the combine to 325. In Uttarakhand, BJP stormed to power by winning 56 of the 70 seats in the state, reducing Congress to a minuscule minority in the state Assembly with a poor tally of 11 seats
With inputs from PTI
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