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Now this will come as major blow to the skeptics of Indian political parties. The most controversial party of India – the BJP [ remember the Babri-Masjid & post-Godhra riots? ] is set to become the world’s most automated party. It plans to do so in the next 3 years by adding IP capabilities in its Unified Messaging Platform. And if you think ,‘It’s all sizzle and no steak’ sample this - it has already selected ValueFirst, a provider of Mobile Data Services to develop an extensive SMS based communications network. This system will be in place only for the registered members of the party across their district/state office network in the country.

Ravi Singh the 35 Year old CEO of ElectionMall.com is handling the accounts of Obama and Hillary Clinton for the current election campaign. Hindustan Times did an interview with him, which can be read here (he talks about who is better between the 2 with respect to using Social Media and the Internet). Incidentally, Singh’s company is running 634 [...]

Chandrababu Naidu has launched an SMS campaign to publicise his party’s website, www.telugudesamparty.org, all over the world.
 
 
 
The website itself is pretty impressive. It updates all the party’s press releases and press conferences using YouTube as a back end.
 
 
 
 
Naidu has instructed the party leadership to ensure that the SMS is sent to all those “who matter” in society. The [...]

Political parties have started realizing the strength of the internet, the recent controversy around orkut bares evidence to the same. India has a high number of political parties that address (or tries to address) different problems faced in India. Most of these political parties have websites, which promote their party ideology. But most of these [...]