BJP To Enroll 36 lakh New Members In Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow: BJP working President J.P. Nadda has set a target of 36 lakh new members for the party’s membership drive in Uttar Pradesh. He said that efforts should be made to increase the target to 50 lakh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally launch the membership drive on Saturday from Varanasi.

Nadda, who arrived in Lucknow on Friday evening on his first visit after being appointed working President, held a late night marathon meeting with Bharatiya Janata Party National Secretary (organization) Shiv Prasad, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, BJP UP in-charge Sunil Bansal, Union Minister and state Bharatiya Janata Party chief Mahendra Nath Pandey and Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma. Former Union Minister Kalraj Misra was a special invitee at the meeting.

The party discussed the success of pre-poll programmes such as ‘Mera parivar, Bharatiya Janata Party parivar’ and ‘Mera booth, sabse mazboot’ as well as restructuring of community-wise cells and sabhas from booth to top level. “At present BJP has 1.8 crore members in UP and our intention is to register 20 per cent increase in membership which is 36 lakh. (IANS)

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