Our Correspondent
Kohima | June 6
Amidst a crisis among certain party ranks, the Nagaland State Unit of the BJP today remained adamant towards strengthening the party and boosting its membership.
Launching its membership drive at the Kohima district BJP office today, the Nagaland State unit BJP President, Visasolie Lhoungu announced that a minimum of five lakh membership is being targeted by the unit in Nagaland, under the party’s ‘Great Membership Drive programme’ in digital form.
“We should try to achieve this target,” he said adding that this should be achieved within the coming general elections in the state due in 2018. The membership drive began on June 6 and will continue till June 25.
So far, Lhoungu informed that about 1.5 lakh members have already registered with the BJP in Nagaland, adding to the 13 crore BJP primary members in the country.
The Nagaland BJP President further stated that under the party’s new digital membership drive, paper will not be used for registration. People who want to join the party as primary members can register their names by dialing the toll free number 18002661001 and get the registration done. Lhoungu informed that once any person dials the toll free number, they will get a message from the head office and their names will be automatically registered as BJP primary member. Under this new system, there is no need to make any payment or fill forms, he said.
Lhoungu further informed that anybody who wants to join the party as a primary member can do so even after June 25. And those who are not using mobile phones, especially in the grassroots level, can still use paper registration cards.
Lhoungu also said that as per instructions given by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, central leaders will have to visit every state, the state legislators/leaders will have to visit every district, district level party leaders are required to visit the mandals, and even the mandal leaders are required to visit the villages and apprise how membership is to be done.
‘Our govt policy is to work with everyone’
Lhoungu said the policy of the BJP government at the Centre is to work with everyone under the banner of “Saabka Sath Saabka Bikash” (Development for all).
“Our government is for everyone that is why equal opportunity, equal service and equal development is the main priority of the government,” he said. He claimed that the BJP’s main focus is to uplift the grass root level people, for which the Modi government has launched various programmes for the poor and weaker sections.
He however expressed concern that several pro-poor schemes launched by BJP government at the Centre was not reaching the grass root level people in the state.
Stating that the BJP party is trying hard to come to power in the state in 2018, the BJP unit President stated that once the party comes into power, it will connect with the people at the grassroots level, and make sure that all programmes and beneficial schemes of the party government reach them.
“BJP is striving hard to come to power and given the opportunity after the 2018 elections, all the pro-poor programmes will reach the actual beneficiaries and we will carry forward equal development, create equal opportunity throughout the state,” he said.
