Election season on mind, SAD forms IT wing

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 5

With the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) starting the trend and all local political parties stepping up their act on social networking sites, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) also formed an IT wing today, keeping in mind the growing demand for an effective publicity campaign and presence on social media ahead of the elections.

Compared to other parties, the SAD enjoys a stronger rural base, sources said. Party insiders felt that other political outfits had gained due to the lack of a social media presence of the party in the previous election seasons. Due to this, it is leaving no stone unturned to assert its presence on the social media this election season. 

One office-bearer of the OT wing has been set up for all constituencies. 

State president of the IT wing of the Akali Dal Gurpreet Singh Khalsa, while sharing the primary purpose of the establishing of the IT wing of the party, said, “Our motive shall be to manage social media and highlight the SAD’s positive activities on all social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp among others. We shall also be engaging the public attention on all works done by the SAD for public welfare.”

  “Our motive shall also be to bring facts and figures of various issues – especially in areas where they are being distorted by other political factions – to people’s notice,” District SAD IT wing president Khushwanshdeep Singh Dhami added. 

  The office-bearers were announced in the presence of SAD district president Gurcharan Singh Channi, SGPC member Kulwant Singh Mannan, among others. Darshan Singh, Ajay Kumar Sharma, Gurpreet Singh Aujla, Pushkar Kumar Bilga were made senior vice-presidents of the IT wing, Jagdeep Singh, Gurpinder Singh Savrup Singh, Kirandeep Singh Randhawa, Dheeraj Verma, general secretaries, Gurpreet Singh Kharal advisor, Lovedeep Singh Ghuman Harpreet Singh, Rajinder Singh, Satvinder Singh, Manbir Singh and Pankaj Suri vice-presidents, Japanjot Singh, Ramandeep Singh and Ravinder Singh were appointed secretaries.       

  The office bearers are Anoop Singh (Adampur), Amaneep Singh (Kartarpur), Lovepreet Singh (Nakodar), Harjit Singh (Phillaur), Parminder Singh Saini (Jalandhar West), Gurpreet Singh Kharal (Jalandhar North), Inderpal Singh (Jalandhar Central), Jaswinder Singh (Shahkot). Circle presidents include Sanjeev Gandhi, Amrit Singh Maan, Amanjot Singh Powar, Ishu Mahajan, Bhupinder Singh, Swaramjeet Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Jagdeep Singh, Jaspreet Singh Chatha, Rohit Verma, Abhay Gupta and Gurpartap Singh Sandhu.