Daltonganj BJP MlA Alok Chourasia skipped the BJP show in Palamu. Many veteran leaders of the BJP were present with the State organising secretary of the BJP Rajinder Singh at the occasion. The show was organised to review the progress of membership drive of the party. But Chourasia was not present at the occasion.
Rajinder Singh said "He is a new comer and it will be a time taking affair for him to get used to the party". Chourasia joined the BJP from Babulal Marandi's JVM few months back. Rajinder Singh added "Chourasia has been given 20,000 membership forms and he is busy in doing his assignment". It was not only he who skipped the meet. Another BJP MlA of Palamu's Chhaterpur Radha Krishan Kishore was also not present at the meet.
Palamu's BJP MP V D Ram was also the prominent absentee in this review. Rajinder Singh commenting upon the absenteeism said V D Ram was in Japla. He did not find the absenteeism any 'worrisome'.
Asked if all is not well in the BJP here he said ' Everything is good and fine. No need to worry about'. On the membership drive Rajinder Singh said ' Palamu is making a good progress. Till now we have 70,000 new membership here. The target for Palamu is 300,000. It will be done by March 31st.
The BJP Palamu District president Manoj Kumar Singh, serving his second term as district chief, has pulled out all stops for the membership drive here, said the sources in the party.
A veteran BJP leader Shyam Narain Dubey said that the BJP is set to make long strides here. The national president of the BJP Amit Shah will visit Ranchi in the first week of April to oversee the progress in membership in Jharkhand.