Four lakh visitors on Google Plus watched Narendra Modi’s Hangout

Shiva from Hyderabad, presently working in New York introduced his friends to Narendra Modi during the session

Gandhinagar, 31 August 2012

According to a release issued by Gujarat government’s Information department, more than four lakh people visited Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s Google Plus live video interaction session on Friday.

The press release further said that till 29th of August midnight, more than 20,000 questions were received through Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and other ways.

During a one and half hour Hangout session starting from 8.30 pm, total 19 persons directly interacted with Shri Modi.

After American President and Australian Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi is third politician to use Google Plus Hangout platform to reach out to the people.

Modi’s Hangout session started little late, and later bollywood film-star Ajay devgan clarified that it happened due to too much traffic.

And the traffic, or say the response was visible in figures available below the player. On Twitter #ModiHangout became a trend. Thousands of tweets on #ModiHangout were continuously being posted.

Those who participated in live video interaction were from Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, New York, Japan, London and Kashmir. All of them who were given opportunity to ask live questions were youths.

Questions ranged from his future path in national politics to his kurta design and favorite dish.

Modi’s live chat video on Youtube had around 3,000 likes and 4,500 comments. This all in around two hours.