Bengaluru sources have stated that with just months to go before Karnataka votes, the BJP is training nearly 25,000 volunteers to run Wats’app groups across the state that will promote candidates and the party's main promises as it tries to wrest the southern state from the Congress and their goal is to create 5,000 groups, who will run them began six months ago.
According to sources it was stated that the BJP has already declared that its chief ministerial candidate is BS Yeddyurappa. In 2013, the 74 year old was forced to quit as the head of the BJP's first government in the south after he was accused of corruption by the state's ombudsman or Lokayukta and the Congress government is led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, though the party has not endorsed him for a second term yet.
Meanwhile
the members of the Wats’app groups, identified through a large membership drive
which collected data including mobile phone numbers, receive animations and
photos with catchy captions. BJP previously used mobiles and Wats’app as a new
technique in the battle at UP.
