A politician can be a writer. There are numerous examples in history of the world where politicians have written rich informative and thought provoking books. The best example is Hitler’s Mein Kemph or My Story .Mao-Tse –Tung, the revolutionary leader of China who took out China from the slumber of ‘opiumated’  feudal past and made it a world power was also a good poet and wrote very meaningful poetry. The Indian history is full of such examples. The medieval times saw rulers patronizing people to write historical account of their times. This resulted in very significant sources of medieval history like Babarnama, Aine-Akbari and many more texts. Darashikoh was himself an eminent scholar, writer and translator. During the freedom struggle all major leaders of Indian National Congress Mahatma Gandhi, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Jawahar Lal Nehru , revolutionary leaders Sardar Bhagat Singh and Yashpal were formidable writers. They in fact gave an ideological and theoretical frame work to the movement. 
The post –independence time also saw the politicians taking to writing. Ram Manohar Lohia, Chandrashekhar, Chaudhary Charan Singh, P.V. Narsimha Rao, T. Nagi Reddy, Natwar Singh, Jaswant Singh, Rani Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat, Mamta Bannerjee etc. are but a few names who wrote serious academic and informative books related to their thoughts, ideology and inclination. Even former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee wrote his famous fifty one poems.  However, in recent past the political leaders write more to satisfy their urge for getting published, flatter their party bosses and to boost their own image. It is an exercise in self-advertisement. The recent example of honourable governor of Rajasthan Sh.Kalraj Mishra’s book being published by an NGO and its release in Rajbhavan by the Governor, Chief Minister and the Speaker of the assembly in the presence of the Vice Chancellors of twenty seven Vice Chancellors of the state universities is not in good taste. Governor’s office has to rise above party politics. It should not be used to propagate the political ideology of the person in chair. The most shameful thing was to put nineteen copies of the book in the car of each Vice Chancellor along with a bill of nearly 68 thousand. Any body who is familiar with the university system would know that Vice Chancellors do not have a right to buy books for the library. The recommendation has to come from the departments. Then the Library committee has to approve the title and number of copies required, then an order has to be made by the libraries to the publisher. Only then a book can be purchased. What is the use of buying nineteen copies of one book?
This proves that the person sitting in the highest office of higher education in the state of Rajasthan either does not know the administration of the Universities which he heads or he thinks that he is so powerful that he can take the Vice Chancellor’s for a ride. Even the Vice Chancellors who saw the books in their cars should have guts to ask the publisher to take back the books supplied without order. Unfortunately, the appointment of Vice Chancellors is also on political basis and so the incumbents of these offices have no courage to utter even the truth before the state. The state of higher education in Rajasthan is pitiable. Earlier the college education director had also issued orders to buy a particular book. The BJP has made the worst case of using political power for their political propaganda which is visible in the appointments in Universities too.