Block level social media warriors

IN Media Watch Briefs | 21/07/2018

ET reports that the Congress party will have a hyperlocal social media strategy for the forthcoming state elections. It says the Congress social media cell has "identified block level social media warriors" who will give feedback on community level issues to the party's social media war room. Such as which local temples with a particular caste following the Congress state unit chief should visit, or in which areas farm loan waiver schemes are going badly, giving the Congress an issue to raise.

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