IMPHAL, December 2: Making a beeline to enrol in the BJP after Prime Minister Narendra Modi`™s visit to Imphal, the enrolment by the people of the Hills districts in the State have reached 75,000, claimed Manipur Pradesh BJP president Th Chaoba today.
He was talking to media persons this afternoon in the BJP office at Nityaipat Chuthek after enrolling former minister K Tomba of Khundrakpam assembly constituency and Chandel ADC member BS Rajonson Anal. Chaoba said he welcomes and approves the enrolment of the two leaders in the State BJP.
After the PM`™s visit to Manipur for attending the closing ceremony of the Sangai Festival and stay for a few minute in the Party office, people have enrolled in large numbers to the State BJP as a part of the mass enrolment drive which was launched on November 1 in New Delhi, Chaoba added.
`The nationwide enrolment after the launch of the mass enrolment drive has reached 10 crore people as per the updated records. There were only 17.65 crore people who cast their votes for the BJP in the recent Lok Sabha elections. Out of those voters, only 3.25 crores are BJP workers`, the State BJP president said.
Talking about the party in the State`™s context, he said only 12000 voters were enrolled as BJP members before March this year and the State BJP kept the target at one lakh after the mass enrolment drive was launched for both the hills and valley people.
We are fortunate that people from 20 assembly constituencies in the hill districts have taken 75,000 enrolment forms whereas more than 50,000 enrolment forms were issued from the BJP office for the valley districts, he claimed.
He added that going by the rate in which enrolment forms are issued from the BJP office, the party expects to enrol two lakhs members by March next year.
Now, the BJP has emerged as a party for all the people without any barriers of caste and creed and without any anti-Muslim or anti-Christian feelings under the leadership of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, Chaoba opined.
The BJP is fully prepared to get good results in the upcoming ADC elections in the Hill districts and municipal elections in the valley, he said, adding the party is well equipped to win the majority of seats in the general Assembly election in 2017.
Chaoba appealed to the people of the State to take enrolment forms directly from the BJP office as online enrolment is not possible at the moment due to some technical problems.