PM becomes 1st 'active member' during BJP drive

PM Narendra Modi has launched the BJP's "Sakriya Sadasyata Abhiyan" and became the first to be enrolled as an active member. The campaign aims to enlist active members who are required to recruit at least 50 party members. This initiative follows a membership campaign with over nine crore registrations, preceding the party's upcoming organisational elections.

NEW DELHI: After the recent membership campaign which witnessed over nine crore registrations, PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday became the first to be enrolled as an " active member " of BJP as he launched the party's " Sakriya Sadasyata Abhiyan", a campaign to enlist active members. He took his "Sakriya Sadasyata" (active membership) in the presence of BJP chief J P Nadda and general secretary Vinod Tawde . An "active member" of BJP has to enrol at least 50 persons as party members in a booth or in an assembly seat.

Only active members take part in the party's organisational elections, which will begin after the membership drive ends. The party on Tuesday announced a four-member team headed by OBC Morcha chief K Laxman for the organisational polls..