The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress besides going full throttle through traditional methods, also fought a digital battle on the D-day for the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) election on Saturday leaving behind the Government machinery that was stuck on conventional methods only.
Polling agents of both the major political parties in the State the Congress and BJP here used laptops to store their voter database, and details of candidates. The independent candidates though giving tough times to the candidates of big political parties in some wards though were in no mood to compete with these ‘stunts’, as their supporters and workers called it.
Syed Shahid Ali the outgoing Corporator from ward number 9 and husband of Congress candidate from this ward Shabana Shahid Ali while talking to The Pioneer said that the idea of using laptop to search voters name was a great boon, as searching for names on the computer was easy. “Earlier searching names was a time consuming and difficult exercise, but with the arrival of laptop it has become very easy besides time saving,” Shahid added.
He said, “We have the facility to provide information on voters, polling stations and wards without any problems, as by just entering the voter ID number, the information on polling booth and ward number is available.”
Sunil Baldev a BJP worker and polling agent at polling booth number 153 All Saints School said, “I am working as polling agent of the party since over 2 decades, in older times it was very hard to find out the names of the voters as we have to do lot of exercise for finding out the names, but now it is very easy to find out the names besides we saves lot of time by searching on laptop.”