UP BJP to enroll over 1.5 crore members in lead up to assembly elections

The Bharatiya Janata Party aims to enroll over 1.5 crore new members in Uttar Pradesh in the lead up to the scheduled assembly elections. Currently, the BJP boasts over 2.5 crore members in the politically-important state.

As part of the BJP's 'booth jeeto, chunav jeeto' (win booths to win elections) campaign, the party will launch a membership drive to enroll new members before next year's state polls, Vice President of BJP's UP unit, Vijay Bahadur Pathak, told IANS.

The 403-member UP Assembly is likely to go to the polls in February-March next year.


As per the plan, Pathak explains, BJP workers will enroll a minimum 100 new members at over 1.53 lakh polling booths in UP.

"These around 4.25 crore party members will ensure BJP's victory in Uttar Pradesh with a thumping majority. The membership drive will be launched soon," he added.

In the first phase of 'booth jeeto, chunav jeeto', the BJP has constituted a 21-member committee at the booth level and also held a 'Satyapan Abhiyan' (verification campaign).

Out of around 1.63 lakh polling booths in the state, the BJP has formed committees in 1.53 lakh booths, said Pathak. The formation of booth-level committees at around 10,000 polling booths has been delayed due to political issues, which the party's state unit VP says will be completed soon.

The saffron party has directed its state units, especially in the five poll-bound states -- Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa -- to form a 21-member committee of party workers at each polling booth.

This committee will consist of women, youth, Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Caste (OBC) and members from the other sections of the society.

Another UP BJP leader said that over four crore BJP members will secure the votes of their family and friends for the party.

(With inputs from IANS)