Sushma Swaraj Tweets Her Political And Personal Life: Creating A Memoir On Twitter!

It is also the mistress of politicians; though married to politics, yet they love to display their social media presence through their intimacy with Twitter! Sushma Swaraj too is one of those politicians who are deeply in love with Twitter!

Sushma became a part of the Twitter bandwagon much later than several many politicians but she is much more active on Twitter compared to many other Indian politicos on the micro-blogging site. Recently she covered her party, namely BJP’s (Bharatia Janata Party) Ekta Yatra via her tweets making her tweet-coverage almost live virtual show, as she did not miss to cover even a single important move that the Yatra made!

“We are moving in groups of 500 people each. We are holding tricolor. Bharat mata ki Jai – Vande Maatram. We are Arun, Anantha, Shanta & Anurag,” tweeted Ms. Swaraj before leaving for the Yatra. After which, her tweets flowed like some fast flowing river down some steep hill, gushing fast without stopping anywhere! Now such a free flowing tweet flow obviously creates doubts and her tweets too created doubts about her being real Sushma Swaraj or a fake one!

One had to doubt about her being real, after all a super busy politico like Ms. Swaraj wouldn’t have afforded so much of time to tweet so many tweets making people aware of the Yatra when she herself was one of the ‘Yatri’ of the ‘Yatra’! Well, she had answer for this too!

“Some doubts have been raised about my tweets – if they were genuine or fake. Some even said that they were ghost written. …Let me tell you that all tweets are mine. …I will tell you the modality that I adopt. I dictate my tweets on my a/c. Each word typed is read out to me and then sent. …I adopt this methodology while touring also. The msgs are dictated on Phone – typed and read back to me. After y clearance, they r sent to u…” tweeted Sushma consecutively in order to prove the genuineness of her Twitter account!

Till now she hasn’t got followers in hundred thousands like other politicians on Twitter, but she has managed to have more than 13,580 and she has tweeted some 370+ tweets. Her ‘about’ section on her Twitter page announces that it is her autobiography… “This is my Autobiography – unedited and not published so far.” And so apart from posting political ideas, support for her party’s ideology and other similar things in her tweets, she also tweets some or other tit-bits from her personal life which in a way constitute to her unedited and unpublished autobiography!

“My elders in Palwal recollected I had phenomenal memory. That at the age of 2, I remembered all the lessons imparted to my elder brother. …Memory has always been a great asset. I remember every word that I read or hear. I completed matriculation at 13 & LLB at 20.” “The opportunities came early. So did the tragedies. My brother was 26 days old and my mother died. I was just 14.” These are some of her tweets that create a kind of memoir on Twitter page; truly, her Twitter page is her autobiography!!