Social media is undoubtedly very powerful. Social media can set any negativity. Social media can also affect elections to some extent, but victory in elections may not be guaranteed.
Why does Bihar Congress feel that the leader who will have more followers on social media, will win the election?
This question is arising because a similar condition has been placed in front of those who seek Congress ticket in Bihar assembly elections.
According to the guideline fixed by the Congress leadership, the candidates in the Bihar assembly elections will be able to become the leader, who will have more followers on social media than the prescribed number. This number has been fixed by the Congress, especially for three social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and X (first Twitter).
The biggest difficulty, how to achieve the goal till the election
Recently, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on the third tour of Bihar. At the same time, on 7 April, the Chairman of the Central War Room of the Congress, Shashikant Senthil, gave a presentation to the Congress District President and other leaders, in which many types of information were given. Shashikant Senthil is a former bureaucrat.
Along with giving tips to increase social media followers to Congress leaders, a helpnine number was also given. In the presentation, those methods were also given which can be increased by adopting the number of followers. And, in case of any problem, help can also be taken from the helpline.
Everything else is fine, but the number prescribed for candidature, the ticket contenders in Bihar Congress are more troubled by the limits. Because, Congress leaders have been made clear in a way that if they are not active on social media, then you should forget the ticket claim.
According to the report, those who claim for assembly elections or district committees are required to be at least 1.3 lakh on Facebook, 50 thousand on X, and 30 thousand followers on Instagram.
It is also difficult that even if the leaders of Bihar Congress are engaged in their social media missions, it does not seem possible to achieve the goal till the election. Elections for Bihar Legislative Assembly are going to be held in October-November this year.
An effective way to increase the follower is that the Congress’s IT cell should run a special campaign for the leaders of Bihar and help in meeting the targets. One method can also be of paid-vampane.
If an attempt is made to increase the follower by spending money, then the goal can also be reached, but the people who follow the followers should be from Bihar, and there are voters – no one can give this guarantee.
And, there is no time left to achieve the goal even after working in an organic way. In such a situation, it is only natural for ticket contenders to be disturbed.
Tickets of about one and a half dozen MLAs will be cut in the same way
According to the number of followers on social media for the Congress ticket contenders, it is believed that the current 19 MLAs can be evicted from the ticket.
If this is a way to cut the ticket, then the matter is different, but in this way the Congress will not get new candidates. Because, most Congress leaders are not active on social media.
A Kanhaiya Kumar is the only leader who seems to be a ticket contender according to the new condition. Kanhaiya Kumar has 44 lakh followers on social site X and 14 lakh followers on Facebook. Akhilesh Prasad Singh, president of Bihar Congress, has 3.71 lakh followers on Facebook, but there are only 27.2 thousand on X, which are only half of the prescribed number – and the current Bihar Congress President Rajesh Kumar has no 5000 followers on X.
The followers of some MLAs are below 1000 thousand, while many MLAs have not even made accounts on social media.
Congress needs a candidate or influencer?
Is Congress leadership candidate or Influenceer to contest Bihar Assembly elections?
For example, the artists were called to mobilize the rallies of the first leaders, recently social media influencers are also hiring – but such conditions will be kept to get tickets, it seems quite strange to hear.
1. The crowd has never seen turning into a vote. Even the crowd gathered in rallies of big leaders does not vote on the day of polling. There are many such examples. Mayawati in UP, and Lalu Yadav have also been seen ineffective in Bihar by -elections.
2. Social media followers are not even a crowd with rallies. At least people and nearby people are gathered or gathered in rallies, people can join any corner of the world on social media, not necessarily that they are voters.
3. Yes, according to perception management, these followers can prove to be beneficial somewhere. Can affect the difference of victory and defeat, but cannot confirm the victory.
4. And old leaders who are popular in their area, are connected to the land – can they not get tickets if they are not active on social media?
Then the question will also arise that if this was the case, then why did Rahul Gandhi lose to Amethi in 2019? The number of Rahul Gandhi’s followers is more than Smriti Irani.
