PM Modi to launch BJP's membership drive in Varanasi today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be reaching his Parliamentary constituency Varanasi today where he will kick off Bharatiya Janata Party’s nationwide membership drive.

He will address around 5,000 party workers at Deendayal Upadhyaya Trade Facilitation Centre in Bada Lalpur, where he will launch the membership drive and felicitate some of the party workers.

The launch of the BJP's membership drive from Varanasi will coincide with the birth anniversary of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mukherjee.

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath along with BJP Working President J P Nadda and Head of the membership drive Shivraj Singh Chauhan will also be present in the function.  

Apart from launching the membership drive, PM will also kick-off a



plantation drive.

After reaching at Babatpur airport of Varanasi this morning Prime Minister Narendra Modi will first unveil the statue of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shashtri. He will then reach Harahua at Panch Kosi Marg and launch the plantation drive Anand Kanan by planting a sapling there.

Prime minister will then move to Deendayal Upadhyaya Trade Facilitation Centre in Bada Lalpur, where he will launch the membership drive which targets to make 36 lakh new members in the state.

Before his departure, Narendra Modi is also scheduled to visit MAN MANDIR, a virtual experimental museum at Man Mahal Ghat, adjacent to Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi. Heavy security arrangements have been put in place for the PM’s visit.