Activists of the National Students Union of India, the students’ wing of the Congress, stage a demonstration against Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah in Bengaluru yesterday.

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After enrolling 110mn members in southern states recently, the Bharatiya Janata Party plans to further strengthen its position in the region through mass contact programmes and study camps for newly-enrolled members, the party said yesterday.
“BJP national president Amit Shah has directed our lawmakers and office-bearers of state units of the southern states to build a rapport with newly enrolled members and also to flag the achievements of the BJP-led central government to the people,” party general secretary Muralidhara Rao said.
He was briefing journalists after the BJP’s day-long south zone meeting held at the sprawling Bangalore Palace grounds in the city centre.
Amit Shah presided over the meeting with district presidents and other office-bearers of eight states.
Even as the Karnataka unit of the BJP would try to retain control of Bengaluru civic body in the ensuing elections in August, the party units in other southern states have been told to launch door-to-door contact with new members and to create a mass base for the party.
During the drive from January to March, the party’s southern state units had enrolled a whopping 110mn members to work for its growth and expansion in south India.
Study camps for active members would be held in all southern states to ascertain their areas of interest and preferences so as to make optimal use of the party’s human resource at all levels, Rao said.