As part of the ‘India 272 plus’ mission, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) State unit members, set up seven booths on Saturday near educational institutions across the city to lure the potential young voters in accomplishing the NaMo mission for upcoming general elections.
The booth carrying the message — “Become a volunteer and support NaMo in achieving the mission” — was placed outside Gossner College, Marwari College, St Xavier’s College, Alberta Ekka Chowk, BIT Mesra Extension, Hari Om Tower and Ranchi University and seemingly encouraged around 8,275 young voters to utilise their voting rights in bringing a positive change in the country.
The students who visited the booths were asked to fill up a volunteer registration form which contains their personal details, such as name, father’s name, mobile no, E-mail ID, Facebook ID, Twitter handle, address, Assembly constituency and lok Sabha constituency.
BJP IT cell convenor Bhanu Jalan, under whose supervision the one-day campaign kicked off said, “There has been no absolute majority at the Central Governement. India today is in the vital need of a party that ensures good governance and tackles crucial issues.”
“The basic idea behind this is to strengthen the vote bank of our prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. Through regular SMSes and tweets we will be in touch with the people and influence them to make the right person win the battle,” added Jalan.
The enrollment drive also took place at the booth to attract the voters apart from infusing awareness and motivating. Those who do not have voter cards were ensured to provide the card at earliest.
“The Booth level Officer of the concerned area has been informed to provide the card at earliest to the people who have registered their name for procurement of voter card.The party workers will ensure that the officers make thecard available at their door,” added Jalan.
However, responding to a query if BJP had taken a leaf out of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) strategies of connecting people, he said, “The party has taken cue from the 1997 general election which brought the party at centre. We are hopeful that the history will be repeated again.”