Application available to workers only; The party plans to use it for its expansion campaign.
Application available to workers only; The party plans to use it for its expansion campaign.
On Sunday night, at the Aam Aadmi Party’s office in south Delhi, a worker unlocked his mobile phone and opened an app that only party members could access. As he selected the “Register Member” option and keyed in a random name, different profiles with that name in that particular field appeared on the screen.
“If the person’s name and correct details are not visible, we can enroll him using his voter ID number,” the worker said.
The mobile application, whose details are yet to be made public by the AAP, traces the names of people as it is linked to the voter ID cards of the residents of that area. It also keeps track of how many people each worker has nominated to the party. Party sources said that AAP is now planning to use this app in other states as well, as it aims to go national. Hindu,
The app – MCD 2022 – was used during a membership drive “MCD Parivartan Abhiyan” in Delhi in December last year, aimed at getting more people to join the party ahead of the municipal elections in the capital.
The application is not available in the public domain; It can be downloaded using the link that the party sends to its workers. It keeps track of which worker has helped nominate how many new members to the party. It can be used by leaders at the top to identify party workers who are active on the ground.
An AAP source said, “We are now telling the workers that they do not need to come on stage and compete to show the leaders that they are working because through this app we can monitor their work. are.”
How does this work?
To nominate a new person in the party, the worker searches for his name and selects the correct one from the options that appear on the app. The person is then asked to give a missed call to a particular phone number, which generates a number similar to an OTP in the caller’s phone.
The worker enters this number into the app and then clicks the caller’s photo with the mobile camera. The worker receives a new member’s certificate containing the person’s photo, name and a unique membership number, similar to a driving license or Aadhaar card number. This number can be used to track new members.
“Now party volunteers cannot make fake nominations of new members,” said the worker from South Delhi, explaining the importance of the app. His registration page shows that he had enrolled over 400 people in the party till March 27.
going national
Party leaders said earlier people used to be enrolled as party members using paper slips, but the new app makes record management and tracking of new joins easier, said party leaders.
On March 10, after winning 92 out of 117 seats in Punjab, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal had urged everyone in the country to join the party and said that AAP was not a political party, but a “revolution”. Was.
Since then, Delhi’s leaders have been traveling to various states and the party is focusing on building organizational structures outside Delhi.