TDP holds India's first digital political conclave

Hyderabad: Tech-savvy Chandrababu Naidu set a new record by conducting India's first online political conclave with over 14,000 participants.

His 38 years old Telugu Desam Party's Mahanadu, the two-day biennial conference is being conducted virtually, using ZOOM Webinar’, amid Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown conditions this year. Party leaders say about 25,000 cadres would follow the digital proceedings.

Naidu called it ' digital socialisation' and said technology shows solution to all challenges.

If the TDP could overcome limitations of social distance during COVID-induced lockdown, it was thanks to the party’s early steps towards digital socialisation. Digital Mahanadu 2020 is also a part of this initiative, the former CM claimed.

Mahanadu coincides with the birthday celebrations of party founder NT Rama Rao (May 28). It will discuss on 17 key issues, mostly concerning governance in Andhra Pradesh. The TDP faced a humiliating defeat in the 2019 elections, when its strength fell to a meager 23 in the 175-member Assembly.

Naidu charged CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy' with ruining the state in less than one year of coming to power. Jagan, he said, had pushed the state economy into an irrecoverable, bankrupt situation.

He said the party rank and file withstood all challenges from the vindictive government and were fighting boldly.