With BJP’s membership touching 10 crore mark party’s National vice president Dr Dinesh Sharma said that the year 2015 is being celebrated as the ‘Sadasyata Parv’. “At fist it seemed almost impossible task but the party was able to achieve this target 11 days before the end of deadline,” Sharma, who is national in-charge of this membership campaign, told jubilant party workers here on Sunday. The drive began from November 1 and was expected to continue till March 30 but was extended by one month. “I wish the party workers and senior members for this great achievement,” he said. Dr Sharma said that the efforts of the party members, workers and leaders who toiled in these 170 days will be written in golden letters. The party will identify the workers who have worked in their respective areas and will be honoured, he said.
Dr Sharma said that the party will run a ‘’Mahasampark Abhiyaan’’ from three months starting from May and get feedback from the newly enrolled members. In the months of August and September the party will also launch a training sessions for party workers. “This will be a fortnight long camp in which more than 15 lakh party workers would be trained,” he said. The membership drive did exceptionally well in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Odhisa. Dr Sharma said that till present over 10.02 crore people have been registered as the members of the party. Over 17 crore people made an attempt to get membership through mobile registration but the effort failed due to poor mobile connectivity.
Giving out the state-wise figures he said in Gujarat 1.19 crore people were added in the party, where as in Delhi 40 lakh people became members. In Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh the number was 1.11 crore, in Bihar it is 90 lakh, Mahrashra 1 crore, Haryana 24.5 lakhs, Punjab 20 lakhs, West Bengal 42 lakhs, Andhra Pradesh 31 lakhs, Tamil Nadu 33.5 lakhs, Rajasthan 74 lakhs, Karnataka 71 lakhs, Odhisa 30 lakhs, Assam 24 lakhs, Kerela 4.6 lakhs and Jammu and Kashmir it was 5.7 lakhs, added Dr Sharma.