Ex-BJP man to push for membership drive in Bharatiya Jantantra Morcha

Ranchi: Jamshedpur East MLA Saryu Rai is all set to expand his political outfit Bhartiya Jantantra Morcha (BJM) with the launch of a massive membership drive for the new outfit.
The membership drive aims at making five lakh members and the campaign will start on September 25 which also happens to be the 105th birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.
Addressing media persons here on Friday, BJM president Dharmendra Tiwari said: “Under the guidance of our leader and convenor of BJM Saryu Rai-Ji we will launch a membership drive from September 25. We have set a target of adding five lakh new members from various walks of life and the drive will conclude on December 31.”
On being asked who will be supervising the membership drive and who are they targeting as members, Tiwari said: “Our vice president Ram Narayan Sharma, general secretary Sanjiv Acharya and secretary (organization) Rakesh Pandey have been given the responsibility to co-ordinate the membership drive across the state in co-ordination with the district leaders. We are not going for any specific set of people but people from all walks of life are welcome to join who want to fight corruption, want to work for the state and want to contribute towards the development of Jharkhand. They can be environmentalists, doctors and social workers, among others.”
He added that they will unveil the official flag of the party on September 25 after celebrating the birth anniversary of Deendayal Upadhyaya. “We have instructed all our district units to organise a program in the remembrance of the Jan Sangh leader and unveil the party’s flag in their respective districts,” he said.
BJM party leaders also released the names of the office-bearers of state as well as district units and said that they have already expanded their organisation into nine districts and they will expand the organisation in the rest of the districts too.
As part of the central office-bearers’ team, two vice-presidents, four general secretaries, IT cell in-charge, secretary (organization) and president of youth wing were announced by Tiwari on Friday. Apart from that, the names of nine district presidents were also announced.
Rai had contested as an independent candidate from Jamshedpur (East) against former CM Raghubar Das in the 2019 state assembly polls and had defeated him after BJP denied him a ticket. He founded the party after winning the election.