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Tharoor agrees with Modi on increasing voters in India

"Dear @ShashiTharoor lets encourage voter registration among 18-24 yr olds. Large number of them unregistered. EC drive presently underway," tweeted the Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate from his account (@narendramodi) Friday afternoon.

FP Archives|Sep 20, 2013, 20:56:00 IST

Thiruvananthapuram: What do Narendra Modi and Shashi Tharoor agree on? Increasing voter registration across the country."Dear @ShashiTharoor lets encourage voter registration among 18-24 yr olds. Large number of them unregistered. EC drive presently underway," tweeted the Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate from his account (@narendramodi) Friday afternoon.[caption id="attachment_1123681" align="alignleft" width="380"] Narendra Modi. AFP[/caption]In less than a hour, the minister of state for human resource development responded. "Dear @narendramodi Thanks. Good to have an issue on which I agree with you 100%. I have been urging young people in my constituency to do so."While Tharoor, the Thiruvananthapuram MP, has 1.9 million followers on Twitter, the Gujarat chief minister has 2.3 million.IANS

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