Setting its eyes on 2024 election, BJP has planned to increase its organisational strength by enrolling as many members as possible into the party fold to improve its vote share in the State.“The BJP got nearly 1 crore votes in the recent Assembly elections. We need around 1.5 crore votes to form government in the State and this is what we are targeting during the membership drive,” said Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan while launching the membership drive in the city.The Union Minister called upon party workers to increase the footprints of the party in all the 36,000 booths by taking the membership to 50 lakh.
The saffron party, which had enrolled around 36 lakh members in the State during 2015 drive, will have to add at least 20 per cent new members to become eligible for holding elections. Pradhan also exhorted the  party workers to ensure that all the welfare programmes launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached the intended beneficiaries.