Inside 48 hours of crowdfunding, Congress’s marketing campaign has collected near Rs 3 crore by over 1,13,000 contributors, sources advised India At this time. Congress launched a nationwide crowdfunding marketing campaign ‘Donate for Desh’ to generate sources for the social gathering forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Till 9 am on Wednesday, Congress garnered Rs 2.81 crore from 1,13,713 donors, which it’s claiming is fulfilling two targets – extra public funds and extra public participation.
Nevertheless, social gathering sources mentioned many of the contributors donated Rs 138 and solely 32 folks donated larger sums – Rs 1.38 lakh, because the social gathering is celebrating its 138th anniversary.
“Most contributors gave Rs 138. Only 32 people donated 1 lakh 38 thousand Rs, 626 people donated Rs 13,000 and Rs 680, and the rest are smaller denominations,” a senior chief advised India At this time.
Leaders who donated Rs 1.38 lakh embrace Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Ashok Gehlot, CP Joshi, Niranjan Patnaik, Sushil Kumar Shinde, TS Singh Deo, Jairam Ramesh and Pawan Khera.
In accordance with sources, over 1.1 million folks visited donateinc.in, the identical web site that suffered over 20,000 bot assaults together with over 1,300 aiming at information theft.
As per the sources, the subsequent step could be forging a reference to the social gathering. Secondly, the social gathering could be sending central observers to states to make sure the energetic participation of state leaders to spice up funding from prosperous folks to create a story in its favour.
Equally, a door-to-door marketing campaign will quickly begin to succeed in a minimum of 10 folks per sales space in each constituency throughout the nation.
In a primary, Congress will search cash from the overall lots throughout public rallies through QR codes, a senior chief mentioned.
Apparently, the grand previous social gathering will even promote merchandise like T-shirts and caps autographed by Rahul Gandhi to straight encash his elevated reputation following the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
In accordance with information, prime donor states within the ongoing drive are Maharashtra (Rs 56 lakh), Rajasthan (Rs 26 lakh), Delhi (Rs 20 lakh), Uttar Pradesh (Rs 19 lakh) and Karnataka (Rs 18 lakh).
Congress sources revealed that 81 per cent donated by UPI fee methodology, whereas roughly 8 per cent contributed by bank cards. The utmost variety of donors is from Bihar. Nevertheless, they donated small quantities.