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Whether posting cartoons against the government or even while targeting his critics either in BJP or within his own party, Rawat has used the micro-blogging site numerous times.Leaders of the BJP are not very far behind as well. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, who is contesting from Haridwar, has been leading the charge for the saffron party. These tweets range from ridiculing Rahul Gandhi’s NYAY scheme to re-tweeting Modi’s speeches. Nishank, who has more than 58,000 followers, has been tweeting an average of 180 posts per day ever since his candidature was announced on March 21. Social media has become the preferred place for politicians of the state who till even the last assembly polls in 2017, were not using the medium to target and ridicule their opponents.Among the Twitter-savvy politicians in the state, Harish Rawat is one of the most prolific, having more than 3 lakh followers, almost twice the number that follows chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.Ever since his candidature was announced, Rawat has been posting more than 50 tweets per day..