Dehradun, Sep 3 (IANS): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami launched the BJP’s membership drive ‘Sangathan Parva, Sadasyata Abhiyan 2024’ in the state on Tuesday and renewed his membership at the BJP office here.
BJP State President Mahendra Bhatt, Cabinet Minister Ganesh Joshi, and Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj were present on the occasion.
Issuing a toll-free number-8800002024, the Chief Minister said existing and new members can make a missed call on this number to begin their association or renew their membership with the party.
After renewing his party membership, he thanked the BJP state president and said, “The drive will expand our organisation. We will try to reach out to everyone with this membership drive.”
Bhatt said, “Today, we have launched the membership drive in the state. Tomorrow, we will launch it at the district level. BJP MPs, MLAs and other public representatives will make at least 20 new people members of the party every Sunday this year.”
On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the BJP’s national membership campaign from the party headquarters in New Delhi.
After PM Modi renewed his membership, other senior leaders, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, also did the same.
The campaign is structured in phases: The first phase will conclude on September 25, followed by the second phase from October 1 to 15, and an active membership drive from October 16 to 31.
The national membership campaign will set membership targets for each unit, from booth to state levels, based on the party’s performance in the recent elections.
GP reporter adds: Under the membership campaign, BJP State President Mahendra Bhatt renewed the membership of CM Dhami and other senior party leaders.
On this occasion, the CM said that with this campaign of the world’s largest and most democratic political party, the party workers and leaders need to ensure their best contribution towards achieving the target of 10 crore new members.
The organisational festival organised at the party headquarters started today with State President Mahendra Bhatt giving primary membership to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami through a missed call. On this occasion, CM Dhami said that he is feeling very happy and proud on being made the “first member of the party in the state”. He also said that the enthusiasm of the workers present here shows that this membership campaign is going to be hugely successful. Referring to the “historic and courageous achievements” of PM Narendra Modi, he said that all the party members need to join hands and make the party stronger by inducting more people into the BJP family. He also emphasised that people will get the privilege of becoming members of the world’s largest and most democratic party.
Dhami claimed that there is no place for nepotism, casteism, communalism, regionalism in BJP but respect for small workers who stand up for the country and society. He claimed that he is a living example of this. He appealed to the BJP workers to work hard to set new records in the state and contribute towards achieving the target set by the central leadership this time to make 10 crore new members. Paying tribute to PM late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he said that his decisions for the betterment of the present and future worked to give direction to the country. He added that Vajpayee had respected the sentiments of the people of the state for the creation of the state. The PMGSY (PM’s Rural Roads scheme) has transformed the country. Vajpayee wanted this scheme to run forever, so he did not run the scheme in his name so that whichever PM comes to power, can take it forward.
Dhami emphasised that the result of the “historic work” done by the union government under the leadership of Modi in the last 10 years is that India has become one of the superpowers of the world. Today, under his leadership, India is rapidly moving towards becoming a developed country in 2047. Apart from this, whether it is the implementation of decisions pending for many decades like triple talaq abolition, Article 370, CAA and Ram Mandir within the country or any public welfare scheme like Ujjwala, Ayushman, Kisan, Anna Yojana, etc., have been able to transform the country. Dhami said that taking inspiration from the PM, the state government has also taken many tough decisions.
On this occasion, State President Mahendra Bhatt called upon the party workers to reach out to every person in the state and request him or her to take the party’s primary membership. He said that the party workers should go door to door and spread the party’s ideas and the government’s work. He said that the party workers need to connect all those sections, societies and areas with the party where the party leaders and the workers could not reach earlier. Bhatt shared that, from tomorrow, all the eight party MPs, the party MLAs and the public representatives and office bearers will launch the campaign in all the 19 organisational districts. During this time, the public will also be connected with the social, service and cleanliness programmes of the party. Taking the membership campaign forward in the programme, Rajya Sabha MP and National Treasurer Naresh Bansal presented the renewed membership card to the State President.
It is worth noting that the State President was given renewed membership by National President JP Nadda yesterday. After that, the state president gave membership cards to the Chief Minister, Cabinet Minister Satpal Maharaj, Ganesh Joshi and State General Secretary Organisation Ajaey Kumar, State General Secretary Aditya Kothari. Also, all the people present at the programme were given membership through missed calls.
State convener of the membership campaign Kuldeep Kumar, who conducted the programme today, shared that tomorrow the membership campaign will be taken forward in all the 19 organisational districts of the state. On this occasion, as state representatives, Rajya Sabha MP Dr Kalpana Saini in Uttarkashi, former CM Tirath Singh Rawat in Chamoli, Cabinet Minister Satpal Maharaj in Rudraprayag, former Chief Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank in Tehri, Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Bansal in Dehradun Rural, State President Mahendra Bhatt, Kuldeep Kumar in Dehradun Metropolitan, Cabinet Minister Subodh Uniyal in Rishikesh, former CM and MP Trivendra Singh Rawat in Haridwar, Cabinet Minister Ganesh Joshi in Roorkee, Lok Sabha MP Anil Baluni and State General Secretary Aditya Kothari in Pauri, Deepti Rawat in Kotdwar, Shiv Singh Bisht in Pithoragarh, Rakesh Nainwal in Bageshwar, Lok Sabha MP Ajay Tamta in Ranikhet, Pradeep Bisht in Almora, Champawat, State General Secretary Khilendra Chaudhary will be present in Nainital, Lok Sabha MP Ajay Bhatt in Kashipur, Cabinet Minister Rekha Arya in Kashipur, Cabinet Minister Saurabh Bahuguna in Udham Singh Nagar to lead the campaign.
In the programme here, today, Dharampur MLA Vinod Chamoli, Rajpur MLA Khajan Das, Dehradun Cantt MLA Savita Kapoor, Jyoti Prasad Gairola, Dr Devendra Bhasin, Vinod Uniyal, Vishwas Dawar, State Vice President Mukesh Koli, Deshraj Karnwal, State Co-convener of Membership Campaign Deepti Rawat, State Minister Aditya Chauhan, State Treasurer Puneet Mittal, State Office Secretary Kaustubhanand Joshi, State Media Incharge Manveer Chauhan were among those present.
