Former India cricketer Ravi Shastri took to Twitter on Thursday to congratulate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah for BJP's landslide victory in the Uttar Pradesh elections. 

Shastri wrote in his inimitable style and got an equally witty response from the prime minister. He congratulated the Prime Minister, by writing: "Congratulations @BJP4India on the landslide win in UP. The pair of PM @narendramodi & @AmitShah went past 300-mark like a #TracerBullet."

PM Modi send the reply "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! :)"

The analogy drawn by the Prime Minister was from Shastri's oft-repeated statement "Cricket is the real winner".

Shastri's 'Tracer Bullet' has been so popular that BCCI had started a contest with all current India players trying to imitate their former Team Director taking the 'Tracer Bullet Challenge'.

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