BENGALURU: Former Union minister P. Chidambaram launched project 'Shakti' here on Saturday for the benefit of Congress workers, and as part of a strategy to strengthen the party's ground network by connecting workers across every booth, village, block, town and districts. Party workers could enroll in the project by sending an SMS with their voter ID card number to a dedicated number, state unit leaders said, adding that 'Shakti' would enable booth-level workers to engage with local leadership on various issues.
Through the App, it would also become easy for party workers to share videos, pictures and other documents, and empower each individual workers to give his suggestion to the party president. Emphasising the need for micro-management at every booth, Mr Chidambaram set August 15 as the deadline for enrollment of lakhs of the workers for the project.
"Massive enrolment should take place beginning today and we must have some result by August 15. I'm absolutely sure with Project Shakti the Congress will multiply its numbers dramatically and in months to come we will have a very strong ground force and get ready for the parliament election whenever it takes place," he added.
Mr Chidambaram stated that project Shakti, the brain child of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, will help the party analyse its ground level strength as ground force will play a vital role in future elections. The former union minister that project Shakti had been launched in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra so far and tens of lakhs of people had already joined the programme in just two months. “It had energised the party workers and had enabled Congress party to take its message and ideology to every nook and corner of these states. The project will be scaled to the entire country rapidly," he added.
