Even as the debate on politicians sharing all their activities on micro-blogging service Twitter continues, NDTV met a girl in a slum in Kerala who got help after her MP's tweet on her.
The MP is none other than the Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, who became the first Indian to have over 1 lakh followers in Twitter.
NDTV walked the narrow mud path in a slum near Thiruvananthapuram to track that one person out of the one lakh. The 17-year-old bed-ridden girl, Sridevi, lost both her legs after a passenger train hit her while she was crossing the tracks on her way home from school.
Since then, Sridevi's world is restricted to only a small room. The class XII student's mother passed away four years ago, and her labourer father cannot afford surgery or a wheel chair.
"I ironically was hoping to be a policewoman someday," said Sridevi, a slum dweller.
The MP of the area happened to meet Sridevi on one of his road trips. Like everyday, he updated his page on twitter mentioning that he met Sridevi.
Then help poured in mainly from NRIs who form a big portion of Shashi Tharoor's twitter audience.
"Unlike a Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, I have the credit of getting help for a young girl through my twitter page," said Tharoor.
The locals have now identified an educated man in their area and given him the job of writing their MP's twitter page everyday. Asking for not just a bridge to help crossing, where Sridevi's accident took place, but also solutions to open drainages and contaminated water.
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