It seems now the Indian politicians have learnt to master a new art in order to getting closer to the mass, the art of peeping more into the cyberspace.
With the escalating interests of people from all walks of life into the internet-driven virtual world and with the social networking revolution the politicians are getting a good platform to spread their messages and also a chance to glorify the works they are doing.
Moreover, it is becoming an easy and affordable medium to propagate thier ideologies and also making their stand on certain burning issues to fetch the confidence of the people, may be in the hope that in return they will provide them with electoral votes during the elections.
The case of Nitish Kumar
Take the case of Bihar Chief Minster Nitish Kumar, the engineer turned politician has a blog which he exploites to tell the people regrading the achievements his government is getting. Also his blog has been regularly followed by 19,85 netizens all over the world.
Following the same line, BJP leader from the same state and also the deputy chief minster Sushil Modi through his Facebook account regularly keeps on sharing positive news items on the state on his wall.
Modi not behind
On the other hand, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi seems to outperform the Bihari politicians. Modi’s blog is the most sophisticated and advanced which provides you with the facility to read his blog in nine different Indian languages besides space for gallery and media. His high-tech blog is also liked by 360, 976 people as of now.
Omar Abdullah also was heard of to be blogging sometimes ago but he halted due to some controversies emerging out of it.
When Shashi Tharoor was in soup
But how can anyone forget the informal brand ambassador of microblogging site ‘twitter’ Shashi Tharoor who had been in soup several times through his views on the site but many a times gave much popularity to him and also to the site, its another matter that the same also cost his post at the cabinet.
However the future seems to be brighter as Vice president Hamid Ansari already issuing I-pads to the Rajya Sabha members in order to make them tech-savvy and also Lok Sabha seems to work on the same.
But one thing for sure, although slowly the general stereotype of politicians being anti-modern is changing.
Moreover, with these steps the netas are reaching out to more number of people through simpler toils and investments. Also it is the best way to reach out to the young generation who are hard to reach through general Rallys and Yatras.
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