Bhubaneswar, Feb. 26 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday crossed a major milestone on Instagram, surpassing 100 million followers and becoming the first world leader and politician to achieve the feat on the platform.

PM Modi joined Instagram in 2014 and currently has more than double the followers of US President Donald Trump. In fact, the combined follower count of the next five prominent world leaders still falls short of PM Modi's individual tally. Donald Trump ranks second with 43.2 million followers, followed by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto with 15 million, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with 14.4 million, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with 11.6 million, and Argentine President Javier Milei ...