Electioneering continues on social media

Bengaluru: As the D-day for citizens to cast their votes drew closer, social media on Wednesday was filled with political messages.

While the electioneering drew to a close at 6 pm on Tuesday, messages were doing rounds on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.

A message from a WhatsApp group highlighted votes to polled in favour of the BJP candidate for Bangalore South Tejaswi Surya. The message went on to state that if Modi is reelected, then the nation would be in safe hands for the next five years, Pakistan or China will not dare to try any misadventure and the country’s economic growth would continue.

Further, a message read that Congress is fighting for less than 200 seats, Mamata for 42, Mayawati and Akhilesh for 37, JDS for 8 seats, with Stalin, Chandrababu Naidu, Kejriwal fighting only in their states and each of them in the Mahaghatbandhan is aiming to be the PM, so think twice and vote for the BJP.

There were also people supporting Congress and slamming BJP's attitude of going for votes in the name of Pulwama terror attack victims.

They slammed the polarizing ideology of the BJP and called upon people to vote in favour of Congress as it would uphold secularism.