BJP set to enrol 16 lakh members in Himachal Pradesh: Anurag

After eight lakh enrollments in its last membership drive, the BJP is set to achieve a target of 16 lakh members in Himachal Pradesh this time. This was stated by former Union Minister and current Hamirpur MP Anurag Thakur while presiding over the party’s membership campaign workshop in the Fatehpur Assembly constituency in Kangra district on Saturday evening.

Thakur, who was accorded a rousing reception by the BJP workers under the leadership of former minister Rakesh Pathania at Raja ka Talab in Fatehpur, said the party leadership had a target to enrol 28 crore members in the country during the ongoing membership drive against last time’s number of 18 crore.

Addressing the party workers of the Fatehpur mandal, Thakur said the BJP had emerged as the biggest political party across the world under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

He said the Congress that once won 400 Lok Sabha seats had been restricted to near 100 seats in the recent general elections only because of the hard work of party workers and the Modi government’s pro-people policies and programmes launched during the past two terms of the government.

The former Union minister said it was only the Modi government that had constituted an SIT to provide justice to the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for spreading canards during his US visit against Indian democracy by levelling false accusations that Sikhs could not wear turbans or kadas in the country.

Thakur claimed that the Central Government had given Rs 12,000 crore to Himachal Pradesh during the last year’s monsoon disaster, but the state government had failed to use this financial assistance. He alleged that the state government had mishandled the protest held in Shimla over the illegal construction of the mosque in Sanjauli that had created unrest in other parts of the state.

“Chief Minister Sukhvidner Singh Sukhu is holding the previous BJP government responsible for the poor state of finances as the previous government had opened many institutions across the state. The then BJP government had opened these institutions in larger public interest, but the Congress, after coming to power in December 2022, de-notified and even closed functional offices in the state,” he said.