Hyderabad|India|February'2009: Today’s politicians need money and public speaking skills besides other things. While all of us do not have money, but, everyone of us can speak well. But, is your public speaking skill is attractive enough. Media Junction, a city based specialist training centre in Public Speaking announced 64th batch on Effective Public Speaking targetting at Politicians. Those politicians who quickly want to hone their public speaking skills, especially new politicians, first time contenders need to brush thier skills to attract audience. Because this elections is going to witness more competition as more parties and their candidates are going to give a tough fight.

The political scenario in the sate with so many political parties such as Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, Samajvadi Party, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Rashtriya Janata Dal, Bahujan Samaj Party and many regional and registered parties is more hot than ever before.

In 1950-51 there were 17 national parties, which increased to 700 ,including national and state, and was brought down to around 500 in 2001-02 .The number came down from 700 to 500 because 200 of them were found to be non-functional. Today the number of political parties stand at 910. With the impending general elections in the country slated to be held in 2009 it is going to be a tough competition between these parties. Of all public communications of all kind, speech is considered the most effective arnesal! Speeches have influenced mankind at all crossroads throughout history. And the time has come again for marathon speeches. Along with the growing number of parties, record number of candidates are expected to plunge into coming elections. On a conservative estimate it is found that about 10,860 candidates are supposed to contest in the coming election.

State politics has a handful orators. Looking at the magnitude of the coming elections good speakers are in great demand, but in short supply. Given the challenges of campaigning, such as time constraints and large number of voters to be reached and more areas to be covered, many political parties, contesting candidates obviously look for powerful speakers who can mesmerise voters. It is they who sway large audiences and persuade them to vote.

Effective Public Speaking is one of the available tools to reach more potential voters. An effective speech will be a sure mantra for success besides lot of money required to win. All politicians know about it. Hence, there is a huge opportunity for effective public speaking training, feels D. Ramchandram of Solus Media, a Public Relations professional from Hyderabad. Besides being a media and public relations consultant D.Ramchandram has been running workshop of Public Speaking for general public as well as politicians and has over fifty Public Speaking training programmes to his credit. Catering to this need is Media Junction, a Hyderabad based centre for education beyond school, college curriculum has been conducting Workshops on Effective Public Speaking for the past several years. The latest batch is scheduled to begin at Hyderabad from 26th February from 6pm to 9pm and would conclude on 1st March. For more details and registration phone 093913-25568, Email: mediajunction@yahoo.com

Reachout's News Bureau
 February' 2009