Heena Kausar
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New Delhi, February 27, 2014 | UPDATED 10:34 IST
"It was around six months ago that five fellow students and I discussed channelling the strong support wave for Modi prevalent in the institute.
That's when the idea to form a student group to campaign for Modi struck. We also formed a Facebook group for students like us," said a core group member requesting anonymity.
The group, which calls itself 'IITians support MODI', says while they support the man himself, it does not necessarily translate into support for his party, the BJP. The Facebook group boasts of 381 members, and includes IITians from Kharagpur as well.
Being IIT students, members feel, gives them an edge when they try to convince people to vote for Modi.
"We are independent of the BJP and have no alliance with them. We introduce ourselves as IIT students and not BJP supporters because then we will not be considered neutral," said Sahil Aggarwal, a final year Mechanical Engineering student, whose mobile ringtone is a song in Modi's praise.
The group holds weekly meetings to decide their plan of action. As of now the group is focusing on its campaign on social media, for which each member has to devote at least 3- 4 hours daily.
The work involves updating the status message, story links and replying to comments on various online groups.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/iit-delhi-narendra-modi-fans-launch-unofficial-campaign/1/345818.html
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