Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 14: Ahead of upcoming Assembly elections and to spread its policies and programs, Janta Dal United, JD (U) J&K has stated its membership drive across the Jammu and Kashmir.
While launching membership drive for Jammu and Kashmir here, State Chief JD (U) G M Shaheen said that the membership drive will remain open till announcement of Assembly elections. “Thereafter scrutiny and election process for State and District Unit will be held as per schedule”, he added.
Shaheen while addressing the media exhorted upon the students to come forward to become members of the largest student organisation which has history of strengthening democracy in the free India with equal opportunities to all.
He added that JDU National President Nitish Kumar who is presently Chief Minister of Bihar has opened doors for all students by introducing election process through which everyone has equal right to contest and come into the organization without any partial approach.
“Our aim is to reach the target of 1 lakh membership in the region and we should be geared to take the movement and ideology of the party beyond the target”, he asserted.
He further disclosed that JD (U) will contest upcoming Assembly elections of its own without any support as the party alone is capable to give befitting reply to mainstream political parties who have misleading the innocent people of the state for their vested interests which has been rejected by the people during concluded Panchayat, MC and Parliament elections in J&K.