Relax! The Sri Ram Sene chief is embracing technology so that he can increase the party's reach. A close aide says the decision was prompted by the Pink Chaddi campaign
Relax! The Sri Ram Sene chief is embracing technology so that he can increase the party's reach. A close aide says the decision was prompted by the Pink Chaddi campaignTHE Pink Chaddi campaign has had an unlikely fallout: Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Mutalik, against whom the campaign was directed, now wants to be tech-savvy.
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From stone age to cyber age: A newly cyber-savvy Mutalik has promised to personally enlighten netizens on his upcoming website |
Software engineers in the party are training Mutalik on how to use a laptop, send and receive emails and browse the internet. A B Com graduate, Mutalik had never used the internet to communicate so far.
Ready in a month
T S Vasanth Kumar Bhavani, president of the Sene's Bangalore unit and Mutalik's close aide, confirmed the news and said, "It must be the Pink Chaddi campaign carried out across the nation that made him want to learn computers."
Though Bhavani is now keying in the leader's official letters, he's confident that Mutalik will be able to do it himself by next month, by the time the party website is launched.
Mutalik can already browse the net by himself but is yet to create an email ID.
Need of the hour
Mutalik says it was the overwhelming response following the Mangalore pub attack that converted him.
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"Yes, I'm learning how to use the internet as this is the need of hour," Mutalik told MiD DAY. "People from other parts of the nation wished to join the party after the Mangalore pub attack and campaigns like the anti-Valentine's Day campaign. To increase our reach, I decided to start a website. It's an effective way to reach the masses and expand my party," he said.
"I will personally answer queries via mail once our website is launched," added Muthalik.
