• Active membership drive kicks off
• Party aims to enhance grassroots presence
• Reports to be submitted to central leadership
Jammu, Dec 16: Major organisational changes are set to take place in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jammu and Kashmir in early January next year. The active membership drive, which began on Monday, is the first step towards organisational elections in the party.
The day-to-day report of the active membership drive in J&K will be submitted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP National President JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, said Aseem Gupta, Incharge of the drive.
BJP president Sat Sharma and the party’s general secretary (Organisation) Ashok Koul became active members of the party on the first day of the drive.
On Tuesday, the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the J&K Assembly, Sunil Sharma and BJP senior leader Ashok Khajuria will be made active members to expand the party’s reach to each polling booth in J&K.
“In the next 15 days, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, Member Parliament (MP) Jugal Kishore Sharma and many other senior BJP leaders, sitting MLAs and others will be made active members of the BJP,” Gupta said.
“This (active membership drive) is the start of the party’s organisational election process in J&K,” said Munish Khajuria, Co-Incharge of the drive. “First, two booth presidents in each of the ninety polling booths of J&K will be elected, after which District Presidents will be elected, and then the J&K UT President will finally be appointed,” he added.
There are 25,000 polling booths in J&K, and the BJP aims to make 12,500 active members across the UT. The party will elect two active members in each polling booth. Following this, two booth presidents for each of the ninety polling booths in J&K will be elected. Then, district presidents will be chosen in all 20 districts, culminating in the election of the J&K BJP president.
The BJP’s membership drive, which officially concluded last night, registered 8.12 lakh new members in J&K. Through the active membership drive, the party aims to enroll 12,500 active members across the Union Territory.
This exercise is seen as a step to strengthen the BJP’s grassroots presence and expand its organisational reach in Jammu and Kashmir.
