Cong follows Rahul’s ‘one man,one post’ formula to reshuffle IT cell

He said that the reshuffle of IT cell office-bearers would be effected in a week or so after collecting details from different places where a person already holding a post in the party had been given the charge of IT cell as well. “We are totally aware of Rahul Gandhi’s formula and we are following it completely. But the mistakes in a few cases happened because of lack of knowledge about people holding another posts,he said. Besides Gupta,there are 8 vice-presidents,16 general secretaries and 22 secretaries in the state’s IT cell.

According to Gupta,IT cell presidents have been appointed in all the 33 districts,with 40 to 50 people working in the IT cell of each district. “Now,we are extending IT cell to the taluka level and we will be completing it by March 2014,” he said. He said that it was necessary to prepare the party’s “cyber army” up for the grassroots level to counter BJP and Chief Minister Narendra Modi. He claimed that Congress party’s IT cell would be stronger than BJP’s. He said that while BJP’s IT cell comprised paid people,Congress party’s IT cell was based totally on party workers and activists on a voluntary basis.

According to Gupta,there were 1,400 applications with him from all over the state,a large number of them from the tribal Dangs and Dahod districts,to join the party’s “cyber army”. He said that the IT cell was also working to give official email accounts of the Indian National Congress to all the office-bearers from the state at the taluka level with a view to integrating them with party leaders from all over the country.