Amit Shah asks BJP workers to reach out to people who contacted to become members

KOLKATA: BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday asked party leaders to meet everyone who had contacted the party over phone and wanted to become BJP members. He also said once the party managed to include these 43 lakh people in the party fold, it would be easier for BJP to pull down Mamata Banerjee's government .

The BJP chief also said that only getting members was not enough and urged party leaders and activists to reach out to individual members and instill the party ideology in their hearts.

Shah was in Kolkata on Tuesday in connection with the Mahasampark Abhiyan (membership drive) and addressed BJP workers at Sarat Sadan in Howrah. Expressing happiness over the growing membership in West Bengal, he asserted that this "workforce" would defeat Mamata Banerjee`s Trinamool Congress in the state.

BJP national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh told reporters that "Shah has said that BJP is not a demonic force like the ruling Trinamool Congress in Bengal, but a nationalist force that would contribute towards nation building."

Party activists and leaders from West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Sikkim and Andamans attended the meet. Among the leaders present were Arjun Munda, Ram Lal and Babul Supriyo among others. Shah also held meetings with leaders from the various eastern states to chalkg out plans for the party`s growth in the region. About 600 delegates from these eastern region states had attended Shah's meeting at Howrah on Tuesday.