Tale of two net-savvy Modis
One tweets on politics, the other on governance
Whenever the term “Modi” crops up in Bihar, every one knows the reaction of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar: 
While his antipathy towards Narendra Modi, his Gujarat counterpart, remains unchanged, he has a soft corner for the home-grown Sushil Modi, Bihar’s deputy chief minister.
But the two Modis have another thing in common, apart from being BJP regional satraps. Both are net-savvy and like to visit social networking sites frequently so that they get constant feedback from the people/society.
The Modis keep posting their visions, ideas and plan to develop their states on the popular micro-blogging site Twitter or on Facebook. But there is a slight difference the way both the Modis post their ideas. While Narendra Modi’s tweets are more political, Sushil’s messages are quite often administrative in nature. For example, Narendra Modi slammed the Congress party for religion-based reservation and dubbed it “vote-bank politics to insult the Constitution’s authors and divide our nation.”
But Sushil Modi, a product of the JP (Jayaprakash Narayan) movement, uses the social network sites for administrative purposes.
He, in his latest tweet, has warned the traders to file the e-return of their sales tax, or else they would be denied road permit.
Sushil, who is in charge of Finance and Commercial Taxes Ministry, has tweeted about the implementation of Goods and Services Tax, too, besides messaging other department-related activities.
The other Modi (Narendra), however, discusses more national issues. Like he tweeted: “Jai Shri Krishna” when a Russian court shelved a plea to ban the “Bhagwad Gita.”
No wonder, he commands a large fan following. Nearly 4.5 lakh people follow Narendra as against 817 people following Sushil Modi on twitter.
In Bihar, where most of the leaders are yet to become net-savvy, Sushil Modi is a rare breed of politician who is not only techno-savvy but also keeps himself abreast with the latest technology.
“These days the social networking sites are a good platform to stay connected with the people,” said Modi.
This is in sharp contrast to Nitish, who neither has a mobile phone nor tweets or blogs. Even to this day, Nitish prefers face-to-face (instead of Facebook) connectivity with people (through his numerous yatras).
