The election campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party has gone high tech with Chief Minister Raman Singh inaugurating a call centre in the State party headquarters here on Saturday.Singh inaugurated the centre by cutting a ribbon at the party office, Ekatma Parisar, and spoke to Bahadur Singh Thakur of Sukma by making the first call from the centre.
The party will be able to keep in touch with its workers and office-bearers across the state and receive feedback from them through the call centre. The party will also be able to send information on party activities to them from time to time.
While congratulating Thakur, the Chief Minister enquired about the activities of the party in his region for the lok Sabha election scheduled next month. He also congratulated the IT Cell which developed the call centre, the State coordinator and the team.
IT Cell state coordinator Deepak Mahaske said, "the call centre will use bridge technique and about 50 people can communicate each other."Using information technology, the campaign of lok Sabha candidates is being done through Facebook, Whatsapp, Voice Call, SMS and other social networking sites.Prominent among others who were present during the occasion included state BJP president Sachidanand Upasane, district coordinator Aditya Shukla andRabi Mishra.