With some opinion polls showing her trailing behind other contenders, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit is set to go interactive on Google Plus Hangout, an instant messaging and video chat platform, with the people of Delhi, particularly the youth on 30 November, three days before the crucial Delhi assembly elections.
The hangout would begin around 12:30 pm and would last for an hour at the office of Google located in the heart of the city in Connaught Place, party sources said.
The arrangements for the Google Hangout have been made by a team of young IT professionals who were hired for the Delhi elections. Dikshit would meet the people through webmedia sitting inside a closed room, Congress party sources said. Dikshit is not known to be internet-savvy, unlike Gujarat chief minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, who held a Google hangout earlier this year and is a frequent tweeter. Google Hangout is an instant messaging and video chat platform, which was launched by Google on 15 May, 2013. Dikshit will give answers to questions posed to her by people live through the service on http://www.sheiladikshit.net/hangout.php [1].
According to party members, the three-time Congress chief minister has even started getting on the website questions many people have posed. At a time she will give answers to eight people, and the participants would be selected on the basis of their questions.
‘The conversations per batch of eight would last for around a few minutes, and then the next batch of eight people would be taken up,’ said a party source.
The hangout would begin around 12:30 pm and would last for an hour at the office of Google located in the heart of the city in Connaught Place, party sources said.
The arrangements for the Google Hangout have been made by a team of young IT professionals who were hired for the Delhi elections. Dikshit would meet the people through webmedia sitting inside a closed room, Congress party sources said. Dikshit is not known to be internet-savvy, unlike Gujarat chief minister and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, who held a Google hangout earlier this year and is a frequent tweeter. Google Hangout is an instant messaging and video chat platform, which was launched by Google on 15 May, 2013. Dikshit will give answers to questions posed to her by people live through the service on http://www.sheiladikshit.net/hangout.php [1].
According to party members, the three-time Congress chief minister has even started getting on the website questions many people have posed. At a time she will give answers to eight people, and the participants would be selected on the basis of their questions.
‘The conversations per batch of eight would last for around a few minutes, and then the next batch of eight people would be taken up,’ said a party source.