The ruling BJP in Tripura on Tuesday launched the membership campaign  ‘Sadasyata Abhiyan 2024' with the top party leaders declaring to increase the number of party members to 12 lakh from the existing 6.5 lakh.

Tripura BJP state president Rajib Bhattacharjee said that in the last membership campaign in 2019, the party membership increased to 6.5 lakh and that time incumbent Chief Minister Manik Saha was the state in-charge in the membership campaign.

He said that to achieve the target of 12 lakh, the party has initiated training programs for its top leaders, who would further train and create awareness at the grassroots level to ensure the drive's success.

Bhattacharjee said that our party functionaries would visit all the areas under the 3330 polling booths to make new members.

“We would not only make new members, but also inculcate the party ideology among the new members and the people,” Bhattacharjee said.

He said that the membership drive would be undertaken in two phases with the first phase would end on September 25 and the second phase would start in October.

Both online and offline mode would be available to become a member of the BJP party, he added.

Bhattacharjee said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially launched the nationwide membership drive on Monday.

Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha, who is the former state BJP President, became the first member of the party at the ‘Sadasyata Abhiyan 2024'  event, held at the state party headquarters.     

Saha later said in a post on the X : “Join BJP's family! With the beginning of the Membership drive today in Tripura. I joined the initial membership at the BJP Tripura State Office. I appeal to everyone to become a member now !”

Aiming to make the highest number of BJP members in Tripura, the ruling party organised a workshop in Agartala last week as a prelude to its upcoming major membership drive.

The party's national General Secretary Dushyant Gautam, and other senior leaders from across the state attended the workshop.