Modi to launch BJP membership drive today

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Modi to launch BJP membership drive today

Saturday, 06 July 2019 | PNS | Lucknow

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Uttar Pradesh unit has geared up to launch a membership drive from Saturday with the target to add at least 20 per cent new members to its total strength of 1.13 crore verified members in the state.

The focus of the BJP will be on 1.30 lakh booths where the party emerged victorious in the Lok Sabha polls.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally launch the membership drive from Varanasi on Saturday in the presence of BJP working president JP Nadda, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, BJP state chief and Union minister Mahendra Nath Pandey and other senior leaders of the party.

On the eve of the membership drive, Nadda reviewed preparation for the drive in Lucknow on Friday evening and discussed the nitty-gritty of the membership drive with state office-bearers.

The membership drive will start from July 6 and end on August 11. Thereafter, between August 12 and 31, meetings of active members will be held at the district level.

BJP state general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that though the party had fixed a target to add 20 per cent new members to its 1.13 crore verified members in the state, the membership drive could end with enrolling up to five million new members.

“We are targeting 1.30 lakh out of 1.69 booths lakh booths in the state where BJP got highest votes in this Lok Sabha polls. There, the party will enrol a large number of new members who had voted in favour of the BJP in the recent election,” Pathak said.

He added that after the drive, the party would go for organisational polls by November in which a new state president would also be elected.

The new members will be enrolled via missed call and later physical verification of each call will be made.

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