Ravi Shastri, cricketer-turned-commentator, took to Twitter to congratulate the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its landslide win in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh elections through his trademark ‘tracer bullet’ comment and got a witty response from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Shastri said on Thursday that the Prime Minister and BJP president Amit Shah’s efforts took the party beyond the 300-seat mark like a “tracer bullet”.
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PM Modi responded to Shastri sportingly by replying with an analogy that the commentator often uses. His tweet was liked by 16,000 people and retweeted almost 7,000 times by Friday.
{{/usCountry}}PM Modi responded to Shastri sportingly by replying with an analogy that the commentator often uses. His tweet was liked by 16,000 people and retweeted almost 7,000 times by Friday.
{{/usCountry}}Twitterattis were amused by PM Modi’s comments.
Later, Shah also replied to Shastri’s tweet.