Know Your Leader: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

The social media presence of Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is prominently a medium for him to amplify media interactions and reports about him.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi — Minister of Minority Affairs

Social Media Footprint

Naqvi's social media presence is excellent documentation of the media coverage around his persona, work, events that he attends and the work of his ministry. Newsclippings form a major part of the original content put across by him. He only uses Facebook and Twitter for expressing online, he doesn't have an official Instagram account. On Twitter, he mostly retweets the tweets of Bharatiya Janata Party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other prominent senior national leaders.

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Sharing a slice of work

Naqvi shares updates about his work and meetings regularly. He also shares press releases and texts of his speeches at public forums and events. There aren't many personal opinions that are shared by him online but they do reflect in his political communication. He seems a team player considering the high flow and nature of retweets by him.

Personal Connect

A prominent aspect of Naqvi's communication is laced with the religion he identifies with and as a leader that wishes harmony among people of different faiths. There is a strong rhetoric of national integration in his communication. His posts on such topics are prominently visual.

This is a part of the series — Know Your Leader. It's a series by Social Samosa where we put across a concise analysis of how our cabinet ministers use social media to communicate. You can read all the parts here.