National Workshop on Social Media organized by AICC at New Delhi

 

Port Blair, Aug 25: One day National Workshop on Social Media was organized by All India Congress Committee at Jawahar Bhavan at New Delhi on 22 August, 2013 under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, Vice President, AICC and MP.

Manish Tiwari, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Dr. ,ShashiTharoor, Union Minister of State for HRD, Ajay Maken,GS AICC and MP,Ms Priya Dutt, Secretary AICC and MP and Deepender Hooda, Coordinator, Communication Department, AICC and MP have addressed the Workshop.

The various aspects of Social media and its usage for communicating the development, ideology, policies, plans and programmes of the UPA Government through Facebook, twitter, Orkut, E-how etc was discussed.

The speakers have stated of avoiding usages of any abusive or hard language and false informations to the participants from their side but at the same time have stated that any adverse/abusive comments of other Parties or their supporters should not be avoided but answered properly by using polite words as we are the members of a very old, established and dignified political Party. Rahul Gandhi urged the participants to uphold the Congress Party’s tradition of peace and non-violence not only in our lives but also in our behaviour with others and while using the social media. He said that Congress Party is party that bonds people, a party that unites people.

It is a party that does not polarize people on the basis of caste or creed. Rahul told that , the party believes and follows the ancient values and legacies of peace, love and affection and hence our philosophy must reflect in our every comments in social media like facebook, twitter etc. He has also advised to be members of Kheedki, a site of Congress Party. The workshop was attended by HD Chattopadhyay, Secretary to PCC President KR Sharma and media person, Tamil Selvam, Media Person, AR Manickam, GS PCC, V Mohd Ali, GS, PCC and Purushottam Prasad, Zilla Parishad member alongwith others such members of PCC, IYC, NSUI etc of All over India.