Now, most parties opting for hi-tech campaign to woo voters

Visakhapatnam | Saturday | 23rd March, 2019

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People who miss our election campaigns on streets can watch it on their smartphones.” We will play footage of the TDP government’s welfare schemes. Visakhapatnam: With submissions of nominations to be completed in the next three days, leaders of TDP, YSRC and Jana Sena are all set to hit campaign trail.Parties are reaching out to people through internet, Facebook live videos and other new-fangled social media streams.The hi-tech campaign team includes election vehicles with LED screens and broadband internet connections, loud-speakers, wireless mikes and 360-degree cameras.B Potana Reddy, TDP vice-president for Visakhapatnam, said: “We have election campaign vehicles with LED screens and internet facility. It’s a first-time for us.”A spokesperson for an YSRC contestant in the city said: “We have permission from the EC to use vehicles with the TV screens to air live programmes of our leader.”A Jana Sena leader said: “We will use Facebook live streams to propagate our leader’s message everywhere..