 "On July 6, coinciding with the 118th birth anniversary of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee, PM Narendra Modi launched the sadasyata abhiyaan in Varanasi, his Lok Sabha constituency. Photo: PTI")
On July 7, when J P Nadda, working president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), convened a meeting of the chiefs, conveners and co-conveners of the party’s 19 departments, his thrust was on the ongoing membership drive, which started on July 6 and is expected to end on August 11.
Nadda likened the “foot soldiers” who are enlisting members to warfighters and said they “mattered more” in the schema than those “leading from the front”. Nadda was quoted as saying: “When you are in a war, it is people holding up the combatants from behind who are more important.” The
