Rahul Gandhi using 'Shakti' app to take feedback from party men to decide Chhattisgarh CM

  • | Wednesday | 12th December, 2018

For the Congress, Shakti has become a database, a communication tool, a feedback mechanism, an appraisal platform and a polling platform—all rolled into one. The AICC can directly communicate with workers in a particular booth, district or an area in any state on a decision that the party wants to make. RAIPUR: Congress president Rahul Gandhi is seeking feedback through big data’s ''Shakti'' app from more than three lakh Congress members before finalising the name of party candidate for the post of chief minister in Chhattisgarh The move comes a day after the Congress wrested power from the BJP after a span of 15 years in a landslide victory winning more than two third majority in the 90 member assembly. He said more than three lakh party members are connected with Shakti app and they were asked to indicate the leader of their choice.He said a similar exercise was carried out before finalization of candidates in 90 assembly constituencies.Project Shakti is an internal digital platform that would use big data with an aim to link each and every Congress workers India with the party president Rahul Gandhi. The newly elected Congress Legislature Party (CLP) is also meeting late in the night in the state capital to set in motion the process for formation of the Congress government.State Congress general secretary Shailesh Nitin Trivedi said in a release that Congress workers in Chhattisgarh today got a telephone call with a pre-recorded message from Congress president Rahul Gandhi seeking their feedback on their choice for the top post.

RAIPUR: Congress president Rahul Gandhi is seeking feedback through big data’s ''Shakti'' app from more than three lakh Congress members before finalising the name of party candidate for the post of chief minister in Chhattisgarh The move comes a day after the Congress wrested power from the BJP after a span of 15 years in a landslide victory winning more than two third majority in the 90 member assembly. The newly elected Congress Legislature Party (CLP) is also meeting late in the night in the state capital to set in motion the process for formation of the Congress government.State Congress general secretary Shailesh Nitin Trivedi said in a release that Congress workers in Chhattisgarh today got a telephone call with a pre-recorded message from Congress president Rahul Gandhi seeking their feedback on their choice for the top post. He said more than three lakh party members are connected with Shakti app and they were asked to indicate the leader of their choice.He said a similar exercise was carried out before finalization of candidates in 90 assembly constituencies.Project Shakti is an internal digital platform that would use big data with an aim to link each and every Congress workers India with the party president Rahul Gandhi. For the Congress, Shakti has become a database, a communication tool, a feedback mechanism, an appraisal platform and a polling platform—all rolled into one. The AICC can directly communicate with workers in a particular booth, district or an area in any state on a decision that the party wants to make.

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