If President Obama won the US elections by leveraging online media and in the neighboring Bangladesh, veteran leader Sheikh Hasina came back to power using 'Digital Bangladesh' as a slogan, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India has gone a few steps ahead. It has actually released a comprehensive IT vision document that it says is an integral part of its yet-to-be-released overall election manifesto. This is coming of age of Indian politics. Or should one say Indian IT? Whichever way you look at it, the step is historic. This marks the beginning of IT being hyphenated with bijli, sadak, pani as an essential elements of good governance. The very act of creating an IT vision document and releasing it with a lot of fanfare in the presence of almost all its senior leaders - the prime ministerial candidate L K Advani, party president Rajnath Singh, senior leaders Arun Shourie, Jaswant Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, and Ravi Shankar Prasad - itself shows the importance given to IT by one of the two main national parties in India. |
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