Narendra Modi told civil servants

Look who is talking about being over rated :-) https://t.co/5bOpFHTMj0 — Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) 1492852460000

Today on #CivilServicesDay I joined a programme where I interacted with civil servants & presented awards to them. https://t.co/pujCz67XFy — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 1492768663000

NEW DELHI: A day after Prime Ministerto "not use social media for self-promotion", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a dig at him with a tweet implying the PM doesn't lead by example.Soon after, Union minister Smriti Irani , clearly disregarding her leader's advice to also "not spend too much time online", responded to Rahul's tweet with her own one, which implied he didn't have a leg to stand on in criticizing the PM.To be sure, the PM is an avid and active social media user. Not just that, he's the most followed head of the government on Twitter and Instagram , and has 29 million Twitter followers with US President Donald Trump, still a million behind.Yesterday, while handing out awards to civil servants, Modi chastised a section of them saying they spent too much time online. He used an example to illustrate to civil servants how to use social media."If social media is used for announcing a date for the anti-polio vaccination then it's very good," Modi said in his address to bureaucrats."But giving two drops of polio vaccine and then circulating the photo through social media should not be done," he said snarkily."I see officers at district level so busy on social media that most of the time is spent on this (social media)," Modi said, miming someone furiously typing on a phone oblivious to all else.