<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi is here on Monday to attend the convocation ceremony of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-M). And it was time for a bitter battle between anti-BJP and pro-BJP supporters in the highly polarised Tamil Twitter world.</p>.<p>#GoBackModi, the hashtag that caught the attention of the social media world in April 2018 and thereafter whenever the Prime Minister visited this city, and #TNWelcomesModi were in fierce competition to trend on eraly Monday morning.</p>.<p><strong>Also read — <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/world-has-great-expectations-from-india-says-pm-modi-765101.html">World has 'great expectations' from India, says PM Modi</a></strong></p>.<p>As of 10.30 am, #GOBackModi was trending with 29,000 tweets, while #TNWelcomesModi was a distant second with 11,300 tweets. The #GoBackModi hashtags were used in tweets that pointed to “failures” of the BJP Government led by Modi like GST, demonetisation and handling of Jammu and Kashmir.</p>.<p>#GoBackModi first trended on April 12, 2018 when Modi was in Chennai to inaugurate the Defence Expo and participate in a few other programmes as the way of Tamils’ opposing his visit for his government’s alleged silence and inaction on issues related to the state.</p>.<p>Though Modi visited on Monday to attend IIT function, the hashtag began trending on Twitter since morning. The BJP also began tweeting using #TNWelcomesModi.</p>.<p>But the major difference between April last year and this year was that the BJP’s social media machinery was also giving tough time to #GoBackModi by trending their own hashtags -- #TNWelcomesModi.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi is here on Monday to attend the convocation ceremony of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-M). And it was time for a bitter battle between anti-BJP and pro-BJP supporters in the highly polarised Tamil Twitter world.</p>.<p>#GoBackModi, the hashtag that caught the attention of the social media world in April 2018 and thereafter whenever the Prime Minister visited this city, and #TNWelcomesModi were in fierce competition to trend on eraly Monday morning.</p>.<p><strong>Also read — <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/world-has-great-expectations-from-india-says-pm-modi-765101.html">World has 'great expectations' from India, says PM Modi</a></strong></p>.<p>As of 10.30 am, #GOBackModi was trending with 29,000 tweets, while #TNWelcomesModi was a distant second with 11,300 tweets. The #GoBackModi hashtags were used in tweets that pointed to “failures” of the BJP Government led by Modi like GST, demonetisation and handling of Jammu and Kashmir.</p>.<p>#GoBackModi first trended on April 12, 2018 when Modi was in Chennai to inaugurate the Defence Expo and participate in a few other programmes as the way of Tamils’ opposing his visit for his government’s alleged silence and inaction on issues related to the state.</p>.<p>Though Modi visited on Monday to attend IIT function, the hashtag began trending on Twitter since morning. The BJP also began tweeting using #TNWelcomesModi.</p>.<p>But the major difference between April last year and this year was that the BJP’s social media machinery was also giving tough time to #GoBackModi by trending their own hashtags -- #TNWelcomesModi.</p>
