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Social media platform Twitter was abuzz with talks of the inauguration of rejuvenated Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi on Monday. Hashtag #KashiVishwanathDham became the second top trend worldwide on the social media platform as Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the historic temple corridor on Monday. The hashtag crossed over 216K tweets and over 8,600 tweets in a span of less than an hour.
In India, #KashiVishwanathDham remained the top trend on Twitter throughout the day.
As the hashtag #KashiVishwanathDham became the top trending topic on Monday, it crossed over 7 billion impressions and reached over 350 million people. The digital trend started after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first phase of Kashi Vishwanath Dham in his Parliamentary constituency on Monday. The project connected the temple town's two iconic landmarks - Kashi Vishwanath temple and Ganga river ghats besides providing various facilities to devotees.
During the grand event, Twitter and other social media platforms were abuzz with comments over the development in Varanasi and Uttar Pradesh with several people hailing the prime minister and UP chief minister for their efforts.
Significantly, along with the hashtag #KashiVishwanathDham, probably for the first time, several other related hashtags such as #ShivaJi, #Ganga, #Varanasi, #Kashi, #HarHarMahadev, #Ganga, #LordShiva, #BabaVishwanath etc concerning the same event also remained trending on Twitter simultaneously.