50% Gujarat nominees ‘unsocial' on net
Ahmedabad: Poll fever has caught up big time on social media but surprisingly 50 per cent of lok Sabha nominees from three major parties in Gujarat either don't prefer it for canvassing or stick to ‘old school' techniques rather than logging on Facebook or Twitter. As per the affidavits filed by candidates of BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for all the 26 lok Sabha seats in the State, out of 76-odd nominees of these three parties, nearly half declared that they do not have any social media account. Surprisingly, many of them don't even have an email-ID. Of these candidates, 38 are not using Facebook or Twitter, as they left the column blank or just wrote ‘nil', ‘none' or ‘does not apply' in their affidavits. Often they just wrote their email ID in the space to mention their social media account, if any.