Help in party’s expansion, BJP’s Rajya Sabha MPs told

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 31

Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants the BJP’s Rajya Sabha MPs to play an “effective role in expansion and progress of the party”. Addressing a meeting of the BJP’s Upper House MPs, Modi said apart from being involved in the state they had been elected from, the members should also get involved in organisational work and help bring into the party fold all sections of the society, especially poor and marginalised.

“The party has given you (Rajya Sabha members) a platform and distinct identity,” the PM said, asking the 52 members of the party to play an effective roll in expansion and progress of the party.

He asked the MPs to maintain an “active profile” in the social media.

Earlier, BJP chief Amit Shah asked the members to adopt one Lok Sabha seat each where it had lost the last polls and nurse it like its representative in Parliament would with the purpose of ensuring the victory of its candidates in the next General Election. He also asked them to work to spread the party’s base and ideology.

Today’s meeting followed two major interactions the two had with BJP chief ministers and top party leaders from states who were asked to work overtime to make the government’s “pro-poor” policies a success, expand the organisation and its ideological influence.