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Bangalore, Apr 1 (ANI): Political parties in Karnataka have geared up and employed the use of social networking and other modern techniques to woo over voters ahead of upcoming assembly elections.

On Monday, President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for Karnataka, Prahlad Joshi explained they were seeking information from the party unit in the Gujarat, which would help in the modernisation of the state.

He further said, "As far as using the latest technologies is concerned, we are always doing that and Gujarat is the best example, we have already requested the Gujarat unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party to send the details so that we can work it out."

Though aspirants were busy campaigning for their respective parties, the IT cell of all political parties is worked relentlessly to promote these parties in social media sites like FaceBook and Twitter to reach out to maximum number of voters both in urban and rural belt of the state.

BJP also asked for suggestions from the Gujarat BJP, which has done several new experiments and got positive results by using this medium in last assembly election.

Parties are using social media and messages on mobile phones as a part of their election campaign.

The spokesperson of the regional party, Karnataka Janata Paksha, Dhananjay Kumar elaborated on the modern techniques being implemented by the party ahead of the upcoming state polls.

"The campaign this time include the usage of multimedia also, the visuals, the audio, the internet services, the face book and twitters and also the cell phones, sending sms's, audio visuals. All these kind of modern techniques are being employed by all of our candidates, even the party is putting up all information via Internet," he said.

Kumar also spoke of the importance of social networking sites elaborating on the number of voters using such sites and explained that modern technologies such as cell phones and visual media are quintessential to reach out to the voters in every corner of the state. (ANI)

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Parties from south employ social networking sites to woo voters ahead of Polls