Nirmala Sitharaman is the first woman spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from southern India and a polyglot at that. And her inclusion comes at a time when the party is planning to expand its base in the southern states.
Sitharaman, who has made a mark since she was appointed BJP spokesperson about a month back, is fluent in Tamil, Telugu, English and Hindi. She can understand Malayalam and Kannada.
The new spokesperson, whose cogency may have been sharpened by debates during her days at Jawaharlal Nehru University, has already become the party’s face for regional news channels from southern India.
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