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CPI (M) Election Campaign Website Launched
New Delhi, 18 March, 2009
Launching the election campaign website of the CPI (M) for the Lok Sabha
Elections, 2009, Comrade Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau Member of the Party
said:
This website is designed entirely using free software platform, Drupal. CPI
(M) has always been committed to promote Free Software, and the present
exercise testifies to our continued effort towards that objective.
The design of the site has also been done free of cost, on a voluntary
basis. Other parties like the BJP spend enormous amount of money for their
campaign on the Internet (lkadvani.in). One wonders if the Election
Commission is keeping a tab on that expenditure.
Our friends and wellwishers have helped us in designing and hosting this
site. In particular, we thank Comrades Srinivasan Ramani from Mumbai;
Unnikrishnan, Sudipto Nag from Kolkata and Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya from Kochi for their special efforts. The
Free Software team and the Research Unit of the CPI (M) have also
contributed.
Today, the Internet has emerged as an open ended medium which enables us to
reach out to a large number of our people, particularly the youth. Through
this campaign over the internet, we hope to reach out to them with our views
concerning issues in the forthcoming Lok Sabha Elections. Through the
website we will be able to carry our message across in an undistorted
manner, free from the control/censorship and biases of the corporate media.
Our website has several interactive features. Visitors can give
suggestions, ask questions and even join our campaign through the site. All
serious queries and suggestions would be responded within 24 hours.
We would appeal to the members and sympathisers of our Party across the
country to join the campaign group in our website and help us in making our
initiative a success.
Responding to questions from the media, Sitaram Yechury emphasized that the
CPI (M) has always believed in using technological advances to take forward
the issues of the people and promote meaninful public debates. The fact that
this is done through the website which will be hosted and maintained
completely free of cost makes the campaign of the CPI (M) distinct from
other political parties. Sitaram Yechury appealed to the youth, the
predominant users of the internet, to recognize that their future is shaped
by the politics of the day and therefore, it is important for them to
participate and engage with it.
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