State BJP to use IT power: Gadkari

Nagpur, Nov 27 (UNI) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will use information technology (IT) as part of efforts to strengthen the party organisation at the grassroots level in Maharashtra, state unit chief Nitin Gadkari today.

A survey would be conducted soon to create a computer database of all the activists and office bearers working for the party as well as its frontal organisations in Maharashtra, Mr Gadkari said in an interview with UNI at his residence here today.

When ready, the database would have the details of five lakh activists, including their names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses, and would be organised according to polling booths, wards, gram panchayats, villages and districts, he said. The database would be used to communicate simultaneously with all of them through SMS, taped voice messages and e-mail, Mr Gadkari, who was recently re-elected the BJP's state unit chief, said.

The party would equip its divisional offices at Nagpur, Amravati, Pune, Aurangabad and Mumbai with video-conferencing facility within three months as part of the IT initiative, he said.

The party's frontal organisations would be revitalised by appointing office bearers right down to the ward level, he added.

MORE UNI AB MAZ YA VV1809