This document presents a report on the top 100 most engaging politicians on Twitter in India for January 2021, as measured by the analytics company Twitteet. Narendra Modi had the highest engagement with over 80 million, followed by Rahul Gandhi with nearly 26 million engagements. The top 5 spots were all held by BJP politicians, including PM Modi, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, and Sambit Patra. The report provides detailed data on the top engaging politicians from various parties and regions across multiple rankings and metrics to help politicians better understand their Twitter engagement.

1. TOP 100
POLITICIANS
IN INDIA
ON TWITTER
FOR JAN 2021 TWITTEET.COM
SANDEEP AMAR
RAJ SHARMA
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2. Introduction
Top 100 politicians in
India as per Twitter
engagement
Twitter is the default announcement and
interaction medium for politicians in India. The
tweets from politicians create the highest
engagement in India, among all categories.
Some key announcements are communicated
via Twitter by politicians.
We track over 200 politicians on daily basis. We
have been reporting the top 10 engaging
individuals in multiple categories. Politicians
being a special category, We were constantly
getting requests to report Top 100 politicians on
the basis of their engagement.
We have collated data for JAN 2021, and run
multiple analytics for the politician community
and entire ecosystem related to political parties
and their followers to showcase this Top 100
politicians report, we hope you enjoy it.
Our methodology is available on the website,
www.twitteet.com, for any clarification on data
please check the methodology. For any
feedback, please write to us at
contact@twitteet.com
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3. THE TOP 3 POLITICIANS
NARENDRA MODI
8029733 ENGAGEMENTS
RAHUL GANDHI
2596892 ENGAGEMENTS
YOGI ADITYANATH
2108410 ENGAGEMENTS
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4. TOP 10 POLITICIANS
IN JAN 2021
01 NARENDRA MODI
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02 RAHUL GANDHI
03 YOGI ADITYANATH
04 AMIT SHAH
05 SAMBIT PATRA
06 AKHILESH YADAV
07 JP NADDA
08 PIYUSH GOYAL
09 SHIVRAJ SINGH CHOUHAN
10 GAUTAM GAMBHIR
Among Indian Politicians BJP dominated with PM Modi, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath and Sambit Patra
taking 4 of the top 5 positions and 7 of the top 10 positions on engagement on Twitter. Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi was at #2 with nearly 2.6 million engagements, followed by UP CM Yogi Adityanath (2.1
million), Home Minister Amit Shah (1.76 million) and party spokesperson Sambit Patra (1.11 million
engagements) at #3, #4, and #5 respectively.
BJP President JP Nadda, Cabinet Minister Piyush Goyal and MP CM Shivraj Chouhan were at 7,8, and #9
respectively. Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav at #6 with 10.8 lakh engagement and and RJD’s Tejashwi
Yadav at # 10 with 5.63 lakh engagements were the only other politicians in the top 10.

5. TOP 100 LIST (1-25)
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6. TOP 100 LIST (26-50)
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7. TOP 100 LIST (51-75)
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8. TOP 100 LIST (76-100)
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9. TOP 15 BJP POLITICIANS
WITH TWITTER ENGAGEMENT DATA
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10. TOP 15 CONGRESS POLITICIANS
WITH TWITTER ENGAGEMENT DATA
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11. TOP 15 OTHER POLITICIANS
WITH TWITTER ENGAGEMENT DATA
(NON-BJP, NON-CONGRESS)
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12. TOP 35 POLITICIANS BY
TWITTER FOLLOWERS
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13. TOP 10 POLITICIANS
WHO PUNCH ABOVE
THEIR WEIGHT
01 KIRIT SOMAIYA
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02 YASHWANT SINHA
03 JP NADDA
04 NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR
05 NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU
06 DEEPENDER S HOODA
07 KAILASH VIJAYVARGIYA
08 SUBRAHMANYAM JAISHANKAR
09 JAIRAM_RAMESH
10 R S SURJEWALA
Politicians with a higher number of
followers will obviously get higher
engagement. One way of looking at the
data is to note, a higher engagement on a
lower base. So we took a minimum base of
100,000 engagements, and ranked
politicians on engagement ratio
(Engagement/Followers)
TOP 10 AS PER ENGAGEMENT RATIO
Engagement ratios of politicians: This is the ratio of total engagement by followers. So in a sense
politicians who engage more actively with their followers. Mumbai BJP’s Kirit Somaiya tops this list,
followed by Yashwant Sinha. Agriculture Minster NS Tomar is at #4 given his pivotal role in handling the
farmers protests.

14. TOP 20 LIST ON ENGAGEMENT RATIO
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15. Our Report Goal
We have brought out this report to help politicians
understand twitter engagement better, and get a
cumulative monthly data on their engagement. We
hope you enjoy the report, and we will soon come
back with more such analytics! Thanks!
thank you for reading!
for any feedback write to contact@twitteet.com
visit www.twitteet.com for daily engagement data and
rankings
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