After US president Barack Obama, who has over 40 million fan following on Facebook, Modi is the second most popular politician in the world. On April 7, the first phase of the Indian general elections, Modi had 12.46 million fans on the Facebook. Today, when he was appointed by president Pranab Mukherjee as the next prime minister of the country, it had jumped to 15.245 million fans, Reports, PTI.

Modi, however, has greater growth rate on Facebook (1.171%) compared to Obama’s 0.305%.

“During the election, Modi became the second most-liked politician on Facebook behind only Obama and Arvind Kejriwal also joined the ranks of the top five liked politicians globally,” the Facebook official said.

It is only during this election cycle, that he crossed Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential candidate, who now has 11.345 million fan following.