The BJP and Congress in Madhya Pradesh sparred over social media followers on Wednesday, with the previous alleging that the Opposition social gathering has “pretend” followers.
Chatting with News18.com, BJP state IT cell in cost Shivraj Singh Dabi mentioned Congress was boasting of getting 9.18 lakh Twitter followers. “We probed and came upon that 48% of the MP Congress followers that’s 4.40 lakh handles have been pretend. Most of those accounts belong to a specific group and numerous them are being run from international locations reminiscent of Pakistan, Syria, Afghanistan and others.”
Requested whether or not the BJP IT cell was appearing on suspected handles, Dabi mentioned Twitter hasn’t provided any authorized platform for such doubtful profiles. He added that the state BJP has 9 lakh followers on Fb as in opposition to seven lakh related to the Congress. “We’ve got 65,000 WhatsApp teams on each single sales space.” He added that Congress’s digital base was restricted to state stage whereas the BJP had social media presence within the state, districts and ‘mandals’.
On shaping up BJP’s digital presence throughout Covid-19, the social gathering IT cell head mentioned the primary meet of govt committee was lately addressed on-line on June 24. Moreover, common conferences and consultations have been held just about within the latest previous, he added.
Congress, nevertheless, mentioned it has surpassed its counterpart on social media. Abhay Tiwari, the Congress IT cell head, advised News18.com that BJP allegations have been baseless. Tiwari clarified a number of handles may very well be inactive however they weren’t pretend, including that one wants a cell phone, Aadhaar card and a number of other different paperwork to create a Twitter profile.
He added the Congress has round 15 lakh Fb followers from state to district stage, together with Lok Sabha and meeting pages, and has 1.75 lakh WhatsApp teams.
Each chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Congress chief Kamal Nath stay lively on Twitter. Chouhan has 7.4 million followers whereas Nath has 1.1 million. Almost 4.5 lakh consumer comply with Nath on Fb whereas Chouhan has his personal portal shivrajsinghchouhan.org for on-line engagements.
