The special drive for membership launched by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got accelerated right from the very first day. In the State-wise drive, State president, state-level office-bearers and leaders at districts and divisions participated.
The State General Secretary of the party and in-charge of Sagar division, Vinod Gotiya said that in past five days, only in Sagar, 60,000 members have been inducted in the party. The workers are making all out efforts to achieve the target of one lakh members in each of the eight assembly segments of the Sagar district.
In Bhopal, three stalls were put up by bio-energy cell of the party wherein in-charge of the cell Sanjay Silawat, district coordinator Deepesh Sharma and district in-charge Jitendera Thakur successfully added 700 members. The State president of Scheduled Caste Morcha Omprakash Khatik also added 50 active members in Karera assembly segment of Shivpuri district on February 13.
Gajendra Singh Patel, the State president of Scheduled Tribe Morcha said that as per the set target, on the very first day, active members were added by 50 district presidents, 17 office-bearers and 30 in-charge of membership. Besides, the office-bearers contributed 19,400 members.
The State president of Kisan Morcha (Farmers’ cell) Banshilal Gurjar said that intense membership drive has been a success in all the 56 organisational districts, while 12,000 members in Gwalior, 6,000 members in Morena and 4,000 members in Datia district have been added. A target of adding 31 lakh members has been handed over to Kisan Morcha while already 3 lakh members have been added.