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BJP’s membership drive proves futile in Telangana
The efforts made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Telangana State unit to enrol about 8 lakh members through traditional method of issuing membership receipts do not seem to have yielded much result. According to party senior leaders, party national president Amit Shah, during his recent visit to Hyderabad, told the State party unit that the system they had adopted was not acceptable to him and asked them to convert the entire process of membership drive
Hyderabad: The efforts made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Telangana State unit to enrol about 8 lakh members through traditional method of issuing membership receipts do not seem to have yielded much result. According to party senior leaders, party national president Amit Shah, during his recent visit to Hyderabad, told the State party unit that the system they had adopted was not acceptable to him and asked them to convert the entire process of membership drive into an online exercise.
This has put the party leadership into a dilemma as they feel that it would be a very difficult task to ensure that details including the addresses of the new members are included in the online list. They had given receipt books to the cadre and asked them to enrol members, but did not collect the details from them.
Though the party leaders tried to explain this to Amit Shah, he is learnt to have told them that there was no option but to go in for online membership drive and had set a high target of 35 lakh. Online membership drive will help in avoiding bogus membership. Normally political parties set target for the membership drive and give receipt books to its rank and file.
In many cases, the leaders themselves pay the membership money and show some names to achieve the targets. A senior leader told The Hans India that the issue of membership drive was back to square one and all the efforts they had made so far had gone waste.
