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| Ten most influential political voices on Twitter |
Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations and communications firm, has released the list of India's top 10 most influential political voices on Twitter. The list of the top 10 political tweeters was determined using data from Klout, which analyzes engagement across social networks. The list was developed as part of a global research study, 'G20 Influencers', that named the 200 most influential political voices on Twitter across the 'Group of Twenty', or G-20, nations.
Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra,
this Harvard graduate took over the reins of the company in 1997 and
since then he has expanded into information technology, hospitality,
aerospace, retail. A jazz and blues fan, Anand Mahindra was awarded
the Rajiv Gandhi Award in 2004 for his outstanding contribution to business
and the economy and was named Business Leader of the year in 2011 at The Asian Awards.
Digvijaya Singh, Congress general secretary, has a penchant for
being in the news for his seemingly outrageous and caustic comments.
His eagerness to walk into controversies often leaves the party and senior
leaders in a soup. Be it his comments on Hemant Karkare or the Sangh
Parivar, his comments always managed to generate a political outcry.
The longest serving Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Damodardas
Modi, has been the man behind the state's incredible growth. He has single-handedly managed to change the sagging fortunes of the state and given
a vibrant economic face to Gujarat. But not everything has been a bed of roses
for Modi: the Godhra riots of 2002 have been a major blot on his political career and continue to be a hurdle to his aspirations of growing his clout across India.
New Delhi-based Jonathan Shainin is an influential journalist and
currently Senior Editor at The Caravan. He has worked on the editorial
staffs of the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. He was
also the founding editor of The Review, a weekly supplement to The
National in Abu Dhabi. Jonathan's writings have been published in The
Nation, Bookforum, Salon and The Paris Review.
A professional quiz master, Derek O'Brien joined politics in 2004. He
is currently the vice president of All India Trinamool Congress and also
a Member of Parliament. He began his career as a journalist but soon
followed in his father's footstep to become India's premier quizzer. His firm,
Derek O'Brien & Associates, has been hosting India's longest running corporate quiz show, 'The Brand Equity Quiz'.
An early adapter to Twitter, Shashi Tharoor was a trailblazer among
Indian politicians in using it as an interactive medium to connect with
people. One of Tharoor's tweets -- where he termed 'economy class'
on passenger aircraft as 'cattle class' -- was a major embarrassment
for his party.
Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, BJP's Sushma Swaraj is a
veteran lawyer and was Delhi's first-ever woman chief minister. She
began her political career as a student leader in the 1970s, organizing
protests against Indira Gandhi's government.
A former minister and Harvard professor who is exalted by his Hindu
nationalist followers as a crusading hero, Swamy has waged a decades-long
war against the ruling Congress party and the Nehru-Gandhi family at its
heart. A celebrated economist and noted foreign policy expert, Swamy is
perhaps best known as a peddler of conspiracy theories that range from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Not a stranger to controversy herself, India's most famous IPS officer,
Kiran Bedi, courted notoriety this year with her vociferous support of Anna Hazare's Jan Lokpal movement, even resorting to gimmickry and over-the-top antics to get her point across. India's most decorated public services officer and a Magsaysay awardee, Bedi was quick to heap criticism on the UPA government's inaction towards Anna's requests of an ombudsman bill to counter corruption.
Vir Sanghvi is one of India's foremost print and TV journalists. Currently,
he is Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times. Educated in India and
the United Kingdom, Sanghvi's journalistic career began when he started contributing to India Today. He continued writing for the magazine during his vacations and in 1978, the publishers of India Today asked him to start Bombay, India's first city magazine. Sanghvi, then was just 22, and became the youngest editor in the history of Indian journalism. Sanghvi worked with Bombay till 1981 and joined as editorial director of Business Press. In 1986, he was appointed editor of Sunday, a newsmagazine brought out by the ABP Group. In 1994, he took over as consulting editor of the ABP Group. He quit ABP to become Editor of the Hindustan Times in 1999
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