Senior BJP leader and Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday officially became an active member of the party from the State on Sunday. In a function for the special membership drive here at Bomikhal in Ward-31 under the Bhubaneswar (Central) Assembly constituency, he inducted more than 100 primary members and confirmed his active membership.
As per party guidelines, a primary member of the BJP will be an active member after registering 100 primary members. Only active members will be assigned organisational responsibilities and will hold different portfolios of the party.
Pradhan expressed his gratitude to people of area and advised party activists to go to villages and start vigorous campaigning to meet the 40-lakh membership target by March 31 in the State, besides making people aware about different NDA Government’s projects for betterment of poor and downtrodden people.
So far, 20 lakh party members have been enrolled in the State. “We hope we will achieve the target by March 31, the deadline,” said Pradhan. Party MlA candidate in the last general election Jagannath Pradhan, senior party leaders Sameer Mohanty and Prithviraj Harichandan were present.