Membership drive: BJP crosses ten lakh mark in Punjab

CHANDIGARH: BJP has crossed the ten lakh mark in its ongoing membership drive in Punjab, after it was kicked off on November 17, state party chief Kamal Sharma said today.

"The landmark achieved after the start of the drive on November 17, is a big achievement and is the result of hard efforts put in by the party workers across the state," a statement quoting Sharma said here.

In this drive, the party has got "stupendous response in rural areas" across the state and especially in young section of the society that is seeing a new hope in the party after Narendra Modi became the prime minister.

He said that due to unprecedented response to the membership drive, the party has managed to touch each and every section of the society and strong efforts would be made to add more and more people from all sections and religion to join the party in near future as well.

Sharma also claimed that following direction of the high command, the workers at the grass root level are meeting each and every section of the society.

The state party chief said the party's different wings are ready to take next edition of the drive in which the party would achieve the target of making total 21 lakh new members before March 31.