The first day of the crucial three-day membership drive of Bharatiya Janata Party started on Friday with leaders staying put in the booths and motivating people to become primary members of the party.
“The response on the first day was very good. The reports say that all senior leaders attended booth meetings and met new members. They even personally made some people as members,” BJP state president Dr laxmikant Bajpai said here on Friday. The party has launched a three-day drive, starting Friday, when
leaders will make at least 100 members from each booth. There are 1.40 lakh booths and party is expected to enroll over a 1 crore members during the drive.
Dr Bajpai attended meeting at booth number 267 in Meerut while party’s national secretary Srikant Sharma manned booth number 41 in village Jattipura in Mathura. leader of BJP legislature party in State Assembly Suresh Khanna stayed put in booth number 52 in Shahajahanpur while party’s leader in Vidhan Parishad Hridaya Narain Dixit heldmeeting in booth number 176 in Unnao.
‘People are showing immense interest in the on-going drive. They are asking questions about when this corrupt Samajwadi Party Government will go,” Dr Bajpai said. Party’s state secretary Virendra Tiwari said in a statement that in Unnao there was long queue of people to sign the membership form. The crowd is spontaneous, he said.
Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will be on a day long visit to his parliamentary constituency lucknow on Saturday. Singh during his brief visit will meet the party leaders and attend the convocation of the King George Medical University (KGMU) here. Party leaders said that Singh will reach here at 1200 hours and will hold meeting with sparty leaders at his official residence. later he will attend the KGMU convocation at 1430 hours and will leave for New
Delhi at 1800 hours.