Strengthen social media drive: Shah

Syed Ali Ahmed

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 21

Giving tips to state BJP leaders in city unit office, party’s national president Amit Shah asked them to take influential people, including social workers, in confidence during Sampark for Samarthan campaign launched by the party, sources said.

In a meeting held today, Shah also advised to strengthen the social media campaign that has major effect in the society. This is all being done in connection with the parliamentary election in 2019, the sources said.

He also has planned to meet core members of Delhi unit separately within a few days to discuss how to convince the people for good works of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government, the sources said.

In the previous election the BJP had won all the seven seats in Delhi, though in the assembly election the party was defeated by the AAP.

State BJP president Manoj Tiwari today met Nobel Prize recipient Kailash Satyarthi and sought the support for the party in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Tiwari informed him that the Modi government had under taken the development of those sections of society through various schemes of women and child development which were not connected with the mainstream of development even after 70 years of independence.

He said if the children become healthy and strong, then the foundation of the partnership of the competent and capable youth with the party will be strong.