Mayawati finally joins Twitter, years after disapproving the platform

The BSP chief's Twitter handle is @SushriMayawati, and the first tweet on it was posted on January 22.

Twitter is treating this as nothing short of a coup. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president, Mayawati (pictured), has finally debuted on the social media platform. In the past, Mayawati had not just disapproved of her party members officially joining the platform, but a youth leader was publicly ticked off for operating a quasi-official Twitter handle in the name of the party, and had to eventually quit the party. On Wednesday, an anodyne press statement from the BSP stated that Mayawati "has for the first time decided to join Twitter for speedy interaction with media and masses, besides expressing her