JJP launches drive, aims to add 5,000 new members to each Assembly constituency
In a bid to revive itself politically after a setback in the Haryana Assembly election last year, the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) on Sunday launched a Statewide membership drive led by its top leadership with the focus on the youth and women. The campaign would continue till July 31.
The JJP, junior partner in the previous Bharatiya Janata Party-led Haryana government, had drawn a blank in the Assembly election last year with its vote share reducing from 14.8% to less than 1%. It had 10 MLAs in the previous Vidhan Sabha.
Kicking off the party's membership campaign at Jind and Sonipat, former Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said the party aimed to recruit 5,000 new members in each of the 90 Assembly constituencies and 25 active members at each booth. In an obvious reference to the party's defeat in the recent election, Mr. Chautala, who had faced the ire of the farmers for not supporting their agitation against the three agriculture laws proposed by the Centre, said ups and downs are part of the political journey, and exhorted the party's cadres to work hard as 'struggle never goes in vain'.
The party claimed that thousands of people, including former Indian National Lok Dal general secretary Dilbagh Antil and Congress's Anoop Singh Dahiya along with their supporters, took the JJP's membership on the first day of the drive.
Campaign launches
The party's general secretary, Digvijay Singh Chautala, launched the membership campaign in Sirsa and Fatehabad. He announced that the JJP will kick off a 'Yuva Jodo Abhiyan' from Kaithal on June 18.
Former MLA Naina Singh and former Julana MLA Amarjeet Dhanda launched the party's membership drive programme in Hisar. Ms. Singh said women's participation in JJP had always been special and during this membership campaign the party's women office-bearers and workers would leave no stone unturned.
JJP national president Ajay Singh Chautala started the membership campaign in Bhiwani and Dadri and exhorted the party's rank and file to go to every village, city and town of the State to connect people with the JJP and strengthen the party.
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