The Office of Rahul Gandhi

So the 44-year-old INC leader Rahul Gandhi finally got himself a Twitter account. You know. To keep up with the 64-year-old prime minister his party once dismissed as the guy who served out gimmicky chai. Yeah. With a Twitter account boss. And on the cover of Time magazine. That one.

 “Mummy mujhe bhi chahiye!” 

“No tea beta, drink your Horlicks.” 

“I want I want I want.” 

“Ok, ok we’ll see.” 

Office of RG manned by four staff comes into existence: One to think, one to type, one to press send and one to take the blame.

Because as long-time pal and paragliding accompanist (no, the real kind, not just the nepotistic, political cruising) Milind Deora says, for when justice may speak but we can’t have setbacks, no? Which ought to be the Congress motto.

In the meanwhile, the course of the 15km padyatra has been set. Which will see RG mount a treadmill for the first time in the history of 12, Tughlak Lane (coconuts have been broken and the beast is garlanded with marigolds we hear. The treadmill, yes, of course what did you think?) set to 15km inclination ... er... incline ... as the grateful villagers file past.

Meanwhile, Twitterverse is saving the jokes in drafts as it waits for him to hit the villages and realise that most farmers have Facebook accounts, groups and kinda already know what he’s been missing.

“What took you so long Baba?” So much for connect. Which brings us to Problem No 2. Which is that in all the dithering the parody account is starting to sound more like the real thing. Or more intelligent. We can’t tell just yet. So far both have just asked for potato chips to be cheaper than the actual potato. Which makes us think he’s probably off on another holiday. Cut down on the chips man. Ugh. No wonder you need the Thai cleanse!