JD(U) holds virtual meeting to push 2025–28 membership drive

The ruling JD(U) in Bihar held a virtual meeting to ensure a successful membership drive for the year 2025-28 at the JD(U) state office on Friday. Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, who also attended the event, first inquired about the well-being of party leaders who joined virtually, besides extending warm New Year greetings to all.

The meeting was chaired by the party's state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha. Apart from the party’s MLAs and MLCs, The JDU’s district in-charges, district presidents, presidents’ of the party’s different cells, Vidhan-Sabha- in-charges, and the party’s block presidents attended the meeting virtually.

On this occasion, the minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, the deputy leader of the ruling party in the legislative council Lalan Kumar Saraf, chief whip of the JDU Sanjay Kumar Singh alias Gandhiji, In-charge of the headquarters Anil Kumar, women's cell convenor and former minister Ranju Geeta, the MLA Shri Manish Kumar, Naveen Arya Chandravanshi and Vasudev Kushwaha were also present.


The Party’s state president Kushwaha reviewed the progress of the ongoing state-wide membership drive and collected feedback from the leaders and party functionaries. He gave them necessary guidance.

Addressing the meeting, he said that the party has set a goal of enrolling more than one crore members. To achieve this goal, the active participation of all party workers, from the state level to the booth level, is essential, so that the ideology of development with social justice can be further strengthened under the leadership of the chief minister Shri Nitish Kumar.

The party’s state president Kushwaha also clarified that responsible party leaders and officials must exercise special caution during the membership drive. “Membership should not be granted to individuals who were involved in anti-party or anti-alliance activities during the last assembly elections, or who lack respect for the party's ideals and ideology,” the release, issued by the JDU, quoted his as saying.

Before granting party membership to any individual, proper information must be obtained, and the values, traditions, and principles given to the party by the CM Nitish Kumar, must always be kept in mind, the release further added.