BJP fixes target to enroll six lakh new members

Ranchi, May 27 (UNI) The BJP, Jharkhand unit, today fixed a target to enroll about six lakh new members during a statewide two-phase drive beginning from June 20.

The decision of the new membership drive was taken at a party meeting held here, party sources said.

The party also decided to send about 1,000 workers to Jammu to stage a dharna there in protest against ''ongoing atrocities and mass killing of Hindus by Pakistani-backed terrorists.

The meeting, which was attended among others by Chief Minister Arjun Munda, was presided over by state president Jadu Nath Pandey.

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