*Dial 8800002024 to become BJP member: Raina
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 23: J&K BJP held a workshop on its primary membership drive (Sangathan Parv) in presence of Ravinder Raina (president), Sat Sharma (working president), Ashok Koul, general secretary (organization), Dr Narinder Singh (National secretary, BJP), Jugal Kishore Sharma (MP), former Deputy CMs Dr Nirmal Singh and Kavinder Gupta, Shamsher Singh Manhas (ex-MP) and Dr Devinder Kumar Manyal (general secretary, J&K BJP).
Dr Rajdeep Rai (former MP and Prabhari Tripura BJP), who is the member of the national team for ‘Sangathan Parv’, was the main resource-person for the workshop. Aseem Gupta (vice-president, J&K BJP and Incharge for ‘Sangathan Parv’), Munish Khajuria (convenor, ‘Sangathan Parv’), Ankush Gupta (co-convenor, ‘Sangathan Parv’), and Arif Raja (co-convenor, ‘Sangathan Parv’) were also present on the occasion.
Ravinder Raina, in his presidential address, spoke on the success of BJP membership drives in 2014 and 2019 and BJP attaining the number one spot in the world in terms of primary membership surpassing the Communist Party of China. He asked the party cadre to achieve the greater target this time by promoting everyone above the age of 18 years to become primary members by dialing the magic number 8800002024.
Ashok Koul provided further insight into the carrying out of successful membership drive in J&K and said that the similar workshops on district levels will be held on 27th of October. He, on the occasion, announced the names of District Incharges for the membership drive for all districts in Jammu as well as Kashmir. He shared 9240236431 as the helpline number regarding any difficulty in membership drive in J&K.
Dr Rajdeep Rai thoroughly explained the online procedure of membership of BJP with the help of PPT. He said that it is primarily through dialing the mobile number 8800002024. He said that membership can also be attained by logging into, by scanning the QR code and through offline mode in the areas with low connectivity. He shared 8860147147 as the helpline number regarding any difficulty in membership drive on the national level.
Aseem Gupta earlier provided the introduction of the ‘Sangathan Parv’. He said that the BJP holds the distinction of ensuring the internal democracy in its organization. BJP celebrates the organizational elections and the membership drive like a festival and hence denotes the process as ‘Sangathan Parv’. He also provided the details of the national level meeting on ‘Sangathan Parv’ held on 21st October in Delhi.