By IANS,
New Delhi : Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) candidate from the Shimla Lok Sabha seat Virender Kashyap has a massive job on hand – sending over one million postcards to reach out to the electorate in his Himachal Pradesh constituency.
At a time when most candidates are wooing voters the internet way, Kashyap has faith in the written postcards.
He has been mailing thousands of postcards to the electorate in his Himachal Pradesh constituency.
“In this materialistic world, writing a letter to every voter is the best option to win their hearts. It’s not a one day job? the process (mailing letters) that started more than one month ago, will continue till voting day,” Kashyap said. “I still have faith in snail mail.”
Kashyap hopes to reach out to most of the 1,105,521 voters spread over 17 assembly constituencies through written messages before polling day May 13.
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Why flying sneakers for Congress and chappals for BJP?
After the flurry of flying sneakers and chappals, a Congress wag posed a pertinent question: Why is it that the Congress party, which professes to champion the cause of the “aam aadmi” (common people), is being targeted with expensive footwear – sneakers, even branded ones, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that once believed in “Shining India”, is getting only chappals?
It started off when a Sikh journalist hurled his Reebok sneaker at Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a Congress press briefing in early April.
The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, L.K.Advani, has got ‘chappaled’ twice – once when a disgruntled party worker threw a “khadaun” or wooden slipper at him in Madhya Pradesh and again in Gujarat when a sadhu aimed a slipper at him.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the latest Congress man in the shoe attack. He was aimed with a sneaker during a poll rally in Ahmedababd, but the shoe fell short of the dais.
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For Lalu Prasad, memory is his gizmo
No drawing up election strategies on the laptop for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad – his brain is his supercomputer.
The RJD boss and former Bihar chief minister relies on his super memory for details of party workers and the constituency. The only gizmo he relies on is his mobile.
“Lalu Prasad does not use the latest electronic gadgets like laptops for details of the general elections. He is still full of energy and uses his brain like a super computer to recall faces of party leaders and workers from villages and blocks, and their problems,” says his close associate Shayam Rajak.
The RJD chief uses his cell phone to remain well-informed about the ground reality in the constituencies, he added.
“Laluji has the names of villages, caste equations, topography and even peoples’ names on his finger tips,” another leader Ram Kirpal Yadav said.
Lalu Prasad’s speeches are his own too.
The RJD chief, who enjoys a wide social support base, knows every small detail about his constituency, says Rajak.