Nitish to kick-start poll campaign in virtual mode on August 7
PATNA: Chief minister and JD(U) national president Nitish Kumar will launch his party’s Assembly election campaign on August 7 through a virtual rally that aims to reach out not less than 10 lakh people through various social media platforms.
The event is in line with the trend of virtual rallies, kickstarted by BJP leader Amit Shah last month amid the Covid-19 situation.
“Party is excited and efforts have begun to make the proposed virtual rally a grand event. A minimum of 10 lakh people, other than party leaders and workers, will be linked for live streaming of Nitish Kumar’s address for upcoming Bihar polls and his vision for the future,” said party general secretary Navin Kumar Arya.
Ahead of the rally, the party has constituted four teams, headed by senior JD(U) leaders RCP Singh, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, alias Lallan Singh, state president Vashistha Narayan Singh and state energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav, to hold virtual meetings in all the 243 Assembly segments from July 18 to July 31.
Arya said, “The party has set a target of holding virtual meeting in at least six assembly constituencies daily. As such, 24 assembly segments will be covered each day by all the four teams and the task will be over by July 31, leaving ample time for mobilising 10 lakh people for the August 7 event.”
Prior to the constituencylevel virtual meetings, the JD (U) has decided to organise online interactions with officebearers of various cells, from July 7, where Rajya Sabha member and national general secretary RCP Singh, who looks after organisational matters, will be present as the chief guest.
Earlier, at a meeting with the representatives of all political parties, convened by Bihar’s chief election officer HR Srinivas on June 26, RJD and its allies had objected to the use of digital mode of campaigning and demanded a ban alleging that it would not provide a level playing field for everyone and resource rich and techno-savvy parties will have undue advantage.