ELECTIONS RALLIES AND MEETINGS WILL NOT STOP
The political parties decided not to cancel elections campaigning,shifted to digital modes to reach out voters.
(The Quiver) Yesterday after the election commission of India, announcement of the assembly elections schedule to be held in 5 states in the month of march. Although EC has confirmed its approval for assembly elections , has completely banned physical rallies ,roadshows , padayatra , cycle bike –vehicle rallies ,processions and meetings by parties or probable candidates till January 15 on viewing the covid-19 third wave at critical juncture.
The political parties contesting for elections decided not to stop their elections campaigning. They will continue their campaigning by shifting all their rallies and meetings from physical modes to digital modes to reach their valuable voters.
The parties are planning digital rallies in the election-bound states and also to reach out to the people via social media platforms.
Congress social media head Rohan Gupta says: “Our preparation is ready; we will arrange virtual rallies and will reach out to people through Zoom, Google meet, Facebook, WhatsApp and other such platforms.”
The Congress is known to be the first party to cancel all the rallies and switch to virtual mode. The party will fix LED screens at important places and organize rallies where the interface will be minimal. Its social media campaign has begun with the party`s team setting up control rooms in Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Goa and Manipur.
Gupta said: “Our campaign is handled by the party volunteers and we have not outsourced it. We are way ahead of other parties including the BJP and the AAP.”
Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said the BJP is prepared to hold virtual rallies.
The BJP has trained 8,000 workers who will be social media warriors in each division and has divided the state into about 2,000 divisions in Uttar Pradesh. The party will focus on the people who have been the beneficiaries of its social schemes and each worker will be given a specific task.
The Samajwadi Party has started a website to reach out to people, where it will webcast virtual rallies of important leaders.
All the political parties have asked their social media wing to gear up for campaigning. While this time the social media will be the biggest tool there is speculation about huge spending on the platforms but sources in the political setup say that it is very less compared to the conventional rallies and the risk of spreading misinformations are more as the digital media is more complicated.
