The membership campaign of Bharatiya Janata Party has entered a crucial stage as party would launch a special drive at booth level from Friday where party leaders are expected to stay put in village and apprise them about the policies of BJP.
“In this three day drive party is expected to enril over 1 crore new members. Every BJP leader of the state would be present in their division, district, block and even booth to enroll new members for next three days from Friday,” said state party spokesperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak in a statement here on Tuesday. The membership drive in the state has already evoked good response and 42 lakh new members have been enrolled in the party in the state. Pathak said in its special drive on December 19, 20 and 21, the party has fixed a target to enroll at least 100 new members from each booth. There are over 1.40 lakh polling booths in the State. Thus, by the ened of December 21 we will enroll over 1 crore new members, he said. The party has targeted to enroll 1.5 crore new members during the membership drive which will end on December 31.
In Awadh region comprising lucknow a massive preparation has been made to enroll new members. There are 28032 booths. The leaders will go to these areas and mamke members,” Atul Dixit spokesman oif Awadh region said. BJP vice-president and Mayor of lucknow Dinesh Sharma who is the national in-charge of the party’s membership drive said that the campaign was going on full throttle. Party has got a very good response, he said. “All the MPs, legislators and the leaders would be reaching their native places by Friday to participate in this special membership drive,” he said adding that the state will create a record of sort in the number of the new members enrolled in the country so far.