The state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party will start a three-day campaign from October 5 to include people left out in the voters’ list for various reasons.
Chief of BJP’s electoral roll campaign and vice-president JPS Rathore said that around 50 lakh voters were did not figure in the voters’ list.
“Party workers will be asked to identify such people and enrol them in the voters’ list,” Rathore said in a written statement issued in Lucknow on Monday.
The BJP leader said that there were 1.63 lakh polling booths in the state and the target was to enrol at least 25 new names from each booth in the voters’ list.
“The party has given responsibility to leaders to strengthen booths and the process to enrol new voters is a step in this direction. Besides, the party has also decided to enrol 50 new members from each booth. Of this, 20 members should be from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes category. Leaders have been asked to actively participate in the campaign,” Rathore said.