The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has formulated an ambitious plan of recruiting as many as 10 crore members from its three-months long membership campaign, to be launched from September 1. Already the BJP has emerged as the party having the highest membership of 8 crore in the world and with the added new membership, it is expected to reach 18 crore.
This decision was taken at an high-level meeting held at the party headquarters in New Delhi, presided by party chief JP Nadda. It has also appointed regional coordinators for membership drives. However, the membership campaign was suspended in four states, where assembly elections scheduled were announced by the ECI.
On this occasion, Union Home Minister Amit Shah exhorted the party leaders to take the party’s ideology to all corners of the country, expressing confidence in its strong electoral prospects in future. He noted that people have repeatedly expressed their faith in its governments in the states and at the Centre, while rejecting the Congress.
He said that BJP is a cadre-based party driven by a robust ideology, stressing that its continued hard work for expansion has taken it to its present preeminent position in the national politics from the merely two Lok Sabha seats it won in 1984.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said Patra said the new members will be made through four methods – calling a soon-to-be-announced mobile number, scanning QR code, by NaMo app and through the BJP’s website. However, in remote areas the party will use traditional paper methods to enroll the new members, he added.
BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde will be the convenor of the membership drive and party’s vice president Rekha Verma the co-convener. Vinod Tawde has also been appointed membership campaign in-charge for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Daman Diu and Dadra Nagar Haveli.
Party’s National General Secretary Dushyant Gautam has been appointed in charge of West Bengal, Sikkim, Tripura and Odisha. National Vice President of the BJP, Rekha Verma will see the membership campaign work in Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Ladakh and Chandigarh.
D Purandeshwari for Kerala, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu while Arvind Menon for Andaman and Nicobar, Andhra Pradesh, Lakshadweep and Telangana.Rajdeep Roy- Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland.Vijaya Rahatkar- Chhattisgarh and Karnataka.
Rituraj Sinha will be the membership campaign in charge of Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat while Ghaziabad MP Atul Garg will be in charge of Uttarakhand and Bihar.