Mobile vans, CDs, cassettes, voice messages, SMS, special election raths, documentaries, computers. You name it and they have them. The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), Congress, BJP and, to some extent, other parties in the state as well have planned a hi-tech campaign for the Lok Sabha elections to attract voters.

More than a month back, the Haryana government had dispatched 50 mobile vans in different parts of the state for campaigning. The vans carried posters, banners and pictures touting achievements of the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in the state. However, the vans were grounded under the model code of conduct as soon as the elections were declared.

The Congress has also planned to get a special election rath for Hooda. The rath is being manufactured at the JCBL plant in Lalru, Punjab. It will be fitted with hydraulic facilities to lift a stage on top of the rath to enable the CM to address the people.

Sources in the INLD said they have also planned a hi-tech campaign in the state. Mobile vans, documentaries and CDs will hit out at the ruling Congress.

Talking to The Indian Express, Ajay Chautala, general secretary of the INLD and Rajya Sabha MP, said the Congress government’s “failure both at the state and the Centre were monumental”. Chautala said election campaign CDs prepared by the INLD would be distributed among the people.

According to Sampat Singh, the INLD candidate from Hisar Parliamentary constituency, the party has also prepared a series of street plays to highlight the “failures” of the ruling Congress in the state and the UPA government at the Centre.

Sources in the BJP said the party was preparing its campaign in the state’s IT capital at Gurgaon.

“We will have voice messages, SMS, CDs, cassettes and mobile vans for our election campaign,” says Gyan Chand Gupta, a BJP leader.

Sources in the BSP, however, said they have no such plans. “We are a grassroots party. We are depending on door-to-door contact programme,” said a BSP leader.