BJP unhappy over State unit’s failure to achieve membership target
BJP National President JP Nadda reportedly voiced his frustration over low enrollment numbers and urged state leaders to meet their targets by October 24. Despite actively participating in the membership drive to motivate party leaders and workers to recruit new members, the party has not yet reached even 50% of its target.
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) central leadership has expressed serious displeasure over the party State unit’s failure to enrol 50 lakh members during the ongoing membership drive.
The party claims it now has about 20 lakh members, but among these, over 14 lakh were existing members. The central leadership has pulled up State leaders for enrolling only 6 lakh new members during the month-long membership drive.
BJP National President JP Nadda reportedly expressed anger over the poor enrolment and asked the State leaders to achieve the target by October 24. Nadda himself participated in the membership drive to encourage the party leaders and workers to enrol new members into the party, but still the party could not manage to even achieve 50 percent of the target.
With just six days left for the deadline, the party leaders are tensed and are pressurising local leaders to take up a massive enrollment drive. Party sources say the State leadership blamed the district in-charges for poor enrollment. The enrollment drive in-charges reportedly did not make much effort to enrol new members. The party organisation has set a target of enrolling a minimum of 200 members from each polling booth across the State during the drive.
Despite comprehensive information from previous membership drives at the local level, the party has not effectively leveraged it to fortify its grassroots presence, sources said, adding that the party had conducted a number of workshops for the party leaders and workers to train them about the membership drive, but still they failed to achieve the target.
The BJP, which has been hoping to capture power in Telangana, was supposed to double its membership in the State during the membership drive. The party leadership were confident of enrolling 50 lakh members in the State as the party managed to poll over 76 lakh votes during the Lok Sabha elections. Since the party captured eight Lok Sabha and assembly seats, it was confident of achieving the target, but the poor response from the people of the State has shocked the party.
Sources say to achieve the target of 50 lakh members in next one week was impossible.
