Within 24 hours of joining Twitter, Congress’ ‘Nayi Umeed’ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has amassed over 1.4 lakh followers on the micro-blogging site.

News agency PTI quoted Congress MP Shashi Tharoor comparing the party’s new secretary in-charge for eastern Uttar Pradesh to Tamil superstar Rajinikanth, hailing her as a "new superstar on social media".

Tharoor, who is among the first from Congress to have joined the Twitter bandwagon and the party's second most-followed leader after its president Rahul Gandhi on this medium, said: