Hyderabad: Politicians from AP and Telangana are not net savvy. In fact you can count on your fingers the number of politicians who are active on the social media.
While ministers are accountable to the people when a concern related to their department is raised on social media, all concerns starting from bad road to drain water issue to financial assistance for someone’s health, almost all the requests are directed to the IT minister. Most of the ministers seem to be unwilling to listen on Twitter. Often, ministers posts pictures related to the events they attended on a particular day. This is the case with the CMOs of both the states. This uploading is handled by a team.
Telangana minister for irrigation, marketing and legislative affairs T. Harish Rao’s twitter profile is one such example, which gets updated religiously, but fails to connect with the people.
Likewise, AP HRD minister Ganta Srini-vas Rao’s profile comes under this category. On the other hand, there are several ministers who neither articulate the government’s vision nor try to connect with people. Their social media accounts are used to convey wis-hes to people. Read more.....