They live in Mumbai. Both are mommies. They are politically aware and aggressive social media enthusiasts. They are both big-time trolls on Twitter.

That is where all similarities end.

Priti Gandhi tweets @Mrs Gandhi and Vidyut tweets @Vidyut. The former, according to the Twitteratti, is a " bhakt" and the latter an "anti-national". "We are very different from each other," stresses 40-year-old Vidyut, who has over 35,900 followers.

Indeed, Gandhi is a Narendra Modi fan, while Vidyut is quite the fierce Modi critic. Gandhi advocates the ban on cow-slaughter, Vidyut questions it fearlessly. Gandhi is a darling of ultra-nationalists, Vidyut is often called a "libtard" on Twitter by the same lot.

Both women got active on Twitter when as new mothers they found themselves confined to their homes. The year was 2010. "Those days, I was reading newspapers a lot and felt it was important to put forth my opinion on certain issues. So I hooked onto Twitter," says Gandhi, 39, who has over 2,14,920 followers.

Within a year, national politics underwent a transition. Anna Hazare's fight against corruption started and Arvind Kejriwal emerged as a third force to take on both the BJP and Congress before going on to form the Aam Aadmi Party. Modi was projected as a mass leader soon after he became the Gujarat chief minister for the third time in 2012.

Initially, Gandhi tweeted only about mundane things @pritirules. But even then the message was loud and clear. "Don't get misled by my last name; I support the BJP," she roared on Twitter.

Her anti-Congress tweets started getting retweeted by BJP leaders; and then one day, she changed her handle to @MrsGandhi. "One of my friends used to jokingly say, 'There are two Mrs Gandhis in India - one is Sonia Gandhi and the other is you.' I realised, this name has a lot of potential, as there would be one Gandhi questioning the other. So I changed my handle," she says.

Vidyut invited the ire of the saffron brigade on Twitter because she was supporting AAP and criticising BJP. She was trolled relentlessly. But she knows that verbally abusing women who go against the tide is a norm on social media. She doesn't get flustered because every time people troll her, her followers multiply. Says Vidyut, who is incidentally no longer a Kejriwal supporter, "Women have to roll up their sleeves and defend themselves. Ignoring or blocking the abusive handle isn't really the solution."

For once the two agree. "If you can-not bear the heat, get out of the kitchen. Playing the victim card doesn't help," says Gandhi.

Just because they have learnt the art of negotiating insults doesn't mean they don't troll anyone. "But I am not abusive," explains Vidyut. "I am sarcastic and yes, my sarcasm is far more brutal than any abuse."

Gandhi does not like to call herself a "troll". "I put forth my opinion aggressively," she says. It was her aggression that caught the attention of Narendra Modi, who started following her on Twitter in 2012. "He was one of my first 75 followers," says Gandhi. Thereafter, her followers increased manifold.

That very year, she was invited to Gandhinagar. "He [Modi] liked that I, as an independent person, defend him on social media," says Gandhi, whose Twitter page has three different shots of her with the Prime Minister. " Bhakts" do get their due. Gandhi too was inducted into the communication cell first, and later into the BJP's women's wing.

In fact, such was Gandhi's devotion that she once tweeted a fake endorsement of Modi by editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks Julian Assange without checking - only because it seemed to compliment Modi. This was before the 2014 general elections. The link had an image of Assange and a quote that read - "America fears Narendra Modi because they know he is incorruptible". "Somebody had sent it to me. I tweeted it. It was a non-issue that was blown out of proportion by the media," she explains.

But Vidyut is not going to let this Gandhi gaffe slip into oblivion anytime soon. "Whenever Gandhi trolls people by pointing at concocted facts and figures, I troll her back to remind her how she propagated a false endorsement of Modi by Assange," she says. Then adds, "But she is a paid troll of BJP, I can never compete with her."

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