BJP’s “largest political leadership training programme” since 2015 has been detailed in a coffee-table book which would be soon released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Book maintains that more than 12.90 lakh party workers have been trained following years the Modi Government ascended to power in 2014 and BJP emerged as the “largest party” in the world with about 11 crore members.
Training programme assumed particular significance with the coming of Amit Shah as Party President who launched a nation-wide training programme on the birth centenary of its ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya in 2015.
According to the 208-page book put together by the party’s training cell and titled ‘Training for a new India’ - it captures a variety of programmes organised from mandal to district, State and national level by the BJP to train and reorient party workers on its ideology from 2015 onwards.
More than 12.90 lakh party workers have been trained since then, the book says. “This programme is also the largest political leadership training programme undertaken anywhere in the world,” it said. BJP general secretary P Muralidhar Rao, who is in charge of the training programme, chronicles that Shah had suggested its publication in 2018 so as to document the massive work that had taken place.