Washington: The US chapter of the Overseas Friends of BJP has announced to raise more than USD 250,000 to launch a social media campaign and to place advertisements in major Indian dailies ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
"We are planning to place recurring advertisements in major ethnic newspapers of US and India, and also in TV media," said OFBJP president Chandrakant Patel.
He asked the BJP supporters to make generous donations for the campaign to bring the party back to power.
According to Patel, the itemised estimated budget of the campaign include USD 20,000 for T-shirts, bumper stickers, post cards, banners and flyers; USD 50,000 for advertisement in newspapers and TV channels in the US and India; USD 25,000 for organizing election campaign events including live events: and USD 100,000 for India campaign help.
