Jaipur, Jul 10: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot seems to be giving Narendra Modi and Shashi Tharoor a competition as far as popularity in the virtual world is concerned.
The 62 year old Congress leader has been accused of actually buying likes on Facebook.
Gehlot's Facebook page is believed to have had 2,14,639 'Likes' till June 30, shooting up from 1,69,077 in May. This morning, the page had a healthy 215,000 'Likes'.
Other than this sudden rise in popularity, what is weird is the fact that most of his fans seem to be from Istanbul and not Jaipur.
BJP cried fouls as BJP spokesperson Jyoti Kiran alleged that the chief minister had bought 'Likes' in bulk from IT firms in Istanbul, to project popularity. He even went ahead and called it the social media scam.
BJP's national spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted: "Congress social media misadventure in buying 'likes' for the ex-chief minister's Facebook account exposed by the Rajasthan BJP. Gehlotji more popular in Istanbul?'
Congress trashed such allegations and said that the CM is a very popular figure, so he doesn't need to stoop to such levels for popularity sake.
