Digging out the duds

Politicians from India's Silicon Valley are way behind when it comes to blogging. And those who do, or rather did, are quite happy with a single post

Digging out the duds

Politicians from India's Silicon Valley are way behind when it comes to blogging. And those who do, or rather did, are quite happy with a single post

Our politicians are treating their blogs the way they treat, say, a public project starting with a bang and ending with a whimper.

Check out chief minister B S Yeddyurappa's blog, bsybjp.blogspot.com, which took off during the assembly elections last year. It has only one post dated April 6 last year: "Together, let us build a strong and vibrant Karnataka." And that's that.

What's worse is that neither the chief minister nor his staff remember the blog. When MiD DAY called the chief minister's press secretary, Bringesh, he said, "The blog is not fake but belongs to the chief minister. He had created it last year in April. Now, I don't know what has happened to it," he said.

Passing the buck, he said some youth members were supposed to look after the blog.

"The members who took care of the party website were supposed to take care of the blog too. The chief minister doesn't know of it," he said.

There are other duds too. For instance, Krishna Byre Gowda, who is to take on BJP's Ananth Kumar from Bangalore (South), has a blog on the Youth Congress website, but without a single post. And then there's the IT-savvy former chief minister S M Krishna who doesn't blog.

Neither does former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy while his dad H D Deve Gowda blogged for a news website once but has no personal blog.

And the award goes to...
The best blog is that of home minister V S Acharya's at drvsacharya.blogspot.com. It is not only updated regularly but also has a poll question on current affairs. The present poll question is on Varun Gandhi's comments.