Guwahati, Sep 9 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said that nearly 13 lakh people have enrolled as BJP members in the state within the first week of a nationwide membership drive.<\/p>\n
He said the party\u2019s state unit is hoping to improve on its last year’s membership figure of 18 lakh.<\/p>\n
Talking to reporters at the state BJP headquarters here, Sarma said, \u201cA nationwide membership drive is going on. Membership renewal is happening, along with enrollment of new ones also.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said 12.90 lakh members, including new ones, have registered themselves since September two, when the drive was launched, till Monday forenoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin seven days, we have about 13 lakh members and we are among the top five states in this regard. The drive will continue till September 25 and I urge the people to enrol themselves as member of the BJP by giving a missed call on a specific number,\u201d the CM said.<\/p>\n
He said the progress of the membership drive in Guwhati was discussed during his visit to the party office.<\/p>\n
Sarma said 18 lakh members had registered last year and the party was hopeful of increasing its figure in the state this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we have time, we will use manual forms also to enrol members. In villages which don\u2019t have internet, we will try to get it done manually,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Sarma had renewed his membership at a special programme at the state party headquarters on September three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Guwahati, Sep 9 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said that nearly 13 lakh people have enrolled as BJP members in the state within the first week of a nationwide membership drive. He said the party\u2019s state unit is hoping to improve on its last year’s membership figure of 18 lakh. Talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-248213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}