State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party observed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday on Wednesday as the fund raising day for helping victims of Jammu and Kashmir floods.
Party leaders collected money at all the fifty-six organisational districts of the state. The fund raising started from PM Modi’s birthday would continue for a fortnight and would culminate on birth anniversary of Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi on October 2.
BJP State president and Khandwa MP Nandkumar Singh Chouhan raised the fund for the J&K flood victims in the state capital. Extending birthday wishes to PM Modi he called on the party workers to stay away from celebrating the occasion by organising programs and events, instead gracefully extend best wishes to the PM and raise funds for the flood victims.
Chouhan addressing the gathering on the occasion at Bhawani Chowk said, “Donate generously for the flood victims of the J & K and provide them relief and support.The fund raising programme launched today on the occasion of PM Modi’s birthday would continue for the coming fortnight and would come to an end on the occasion of birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.”
Chouhan further said that the party leaders and workers should get unite for this purpose and indulge in raising funds for the flood victims in their respective district, city and Mandal. The money collected should be forwarded to the state party office Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay
campus. The state office would than prepare a single cheque of the collected money and would send it to the Prime Minister’s relief fund, he added. He visited markets of the walled city to raise funds including lakherapura, Azad Market, Jumerati, loha Bazar, Itwara and Mangalwara.
Funds for the J & K flood victims were also raised at other parts of the state by the BJP leaders including Indore, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Ujjain, Sagar and other organizational districts of the party.