{"id":145107,"date":"2018-05-15T14:27:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=145107"},"modified":"2018-05-15T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T08:57:24","slug":"bjp-wins-karnataka-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/bjp-wins-karnataka-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP wins Karnataka with WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BJP under Narendra Modi has effectively used WhatsApp for winning the Karnataka election. WhatsApp&#8217;s largest market is in India, where it has more than 200 million users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indians sent each other more than 20 billion New Year&#8217;s Eve greetings via WhatsApp this year. And WhatsApp is testing a new payments feature to expand its reach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even marriage invitations are on WhatsApp.Sometimes it is used for spreading rumours also especially in places like Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It can be used for both positive and also negative impacts. The BJP election machinery has used it successfully for the victory of the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-145108 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/whatsapp-bjp-lead-660x365.jpg\" alt=\"BJP wins Karnataka with WhatsApp\" width=\"660\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who marched to victory in 2014 backed by an unprecedented social media operation, has thousands of WhatsApp warriors running grass-roots groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A review of their posts shows some contain warnings about Muslims &#8211; a tactic to unite the loyal Hindu base.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This proves that the BJP is using the social media and also the Whatsapp in a successful manner to win the elections and Karnataka proved that WhatsApp is working like anything. This shows that Mobile power has a wider reach and the BJP has succeeded using the Mobile mileage in a successful manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP under Narendra Modi has effectively used WhatsApp for winning the Karnataka election. WhatsApp&#8217;s largest market is in India, where it has more than 200 million users. Indians sent each other more than 20 billion New Year&#8217;s Eve greetings via WhatsApp this year. And WhatsApp is testing a new payments feature to expand its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[350,74940,74939,74941,73689,94,9731],"class_list":["post-145107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bjp","tag-bjp-victory-in-2014","tag-bjp-wins-karnataka","tag-bjp-wins-karnataka-with-whatsapp","tag-karnataka-election","tag-narendra-modi","tag-whatsapp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bjp-28-1498659119.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}