Here's how Amit Shah responded to Ravi Shastri's congratulatory tweet

NEW DELHI: BJP president Amit Shah was not far behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi in replying cheekily to former cricketer Ravi Shastri's congratulatory tweet yesterday.

Shastri tweeted the PM, Shah and the BJP congratulating them on the party's landslide victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. He used one of his signature phrases from his cricket commentary, "tracer bullet", to describe the BJP's poll win.

Congratulations @BJP4India on the landslide win in UP. The pair of PM @narendramodi & @AmitShah went past 300-mark like a #TracerBullet

— Ravi Shastri (@RaviShastriOfc) March 16, 2017

PM Modi replied right back, also using cricketing language.

Thank you. UP polls did not quite go down to the wire. But, at the end of the day democracy is indeed the real winner! :) https://t.co/suoTqZtXit

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) March 16, 2017

Modi's party colleague Shah was not to be left behind and he too replied, piling on cricketing metaphors.

Thank you @RaviShastriOfc. Team BJP piled up 300+ on the back of many singles that our karyakartas and Modi government took along the way. https://t.co/MiffG9BRuB

— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) March 16, 2017

The Twitterati who support the BJP were thrilled with Shah's response.

One praised the BJP's "wit and humour".

@AmitShah BJP team's wits and humour is praise worthy. Superb! ? @RaviShastriOfc

— Devika (@Dayweekaa) March 16, 2017

Another was happy Shah remembered the 'karyakartas', or party workers.

@AmitShah Sir thank you for remembering the nameless foot soldiers who took singles.

— Kesariya Holi ???? (@SeCoolar_Right) March 16, 2017

And yet another hoped the BJP would do even better in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

@AmitShah @RaviShastriOfc sirji pls break brian laras record of 400 in 2019 election.

— ABRG (@TheKillerAB) March 16, 2017