BJP membership drive begins today; aims 50 lakh new members

PATNA: The BJP will embark on an ambitious membership campaign in Bihar today. It will aim at enrolling 50 lakh new members in the party.

Bihar BJP president Mangal Pandey said the membership campaign will be for 2015 to 2020 and it will start from state headquarters of the party in Patna.

"We will aim at including more youths in our party. It will strengthen our party further. Apart from the usual paper forms, people can also use online forms to apply for becoming a member of BJP," Pandey said.

He also said that the focus of the campaign will be to have more women and people from scheduled castes, tribes, OBC and Extremely Backward Castes.

Pandey also expressed happiness at the swearing-in of BJP government in Maharashtra, and congratulated Devendra Fadnavis for becoming the Chief Minister.