Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch Bharatiya Janata Party’s membership drive from his parliamentary constituency, Varanasi, on the birth anniversary of party ideologue Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee on July 6 and unveil a 178- foot bronze statue of late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri at LBS International Airport in Varanasi.
Shastri’s statue has been sculpted by renowned sculptor Ram Sutar, who designed the world’s highest Statue of Unity of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel that was unveiled by Modi in Gujarat.
Modi would also inaugurate a tree plantation drive along Panchkosi route at Anand Kakan Navgarh Vatika in Varanasi. Around 10,000 students are expected to join the Prime Minister in the tree plantation drive.
Later, the Prime Minister will launch the BJP membership drive at Deen Dayal Hastakala Sankul at Baralalpur, where party’s working chief JP Nadda, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, BJP state chief and Union minister Mahendra Nath Pandey and other senior leaders and around 25,000 party workers would be present.
Modi will hand out membership of the party to five people of different communities and castes. The party is expected to add around 50 lakh new members to the present 1.36 crore members in Uttar Pradesh in the fresh drive which will continue till July 31.