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45% of voters are BJP’s primary members: Tendulkar

Sukhaji Naik appointed BJP’s North Goa District president

MAPUSA

Bharatiya Janata Party has registered 4.6 lakh primary members in the membership drive it launched in the last one year.

“Almost 45 percent of voters in Goa have been converted into primary members of the BJP,” said Vinay Tendulkar, State President of BJP, while speaking at a news conference in Mapusa.

“We also conducted the Maha-Sampark Abhiyan in all the 40 constituencies,” he added.

He further informed that in 32 constituencies, around 4,500 Karyakatas took part in an overnight training programme conducted by the party.

Thereafter, the party appointed Samitis at various levels followed by the election of Mandals in all the constituencies.

District level committees for North Goa and South Goa were also elected.

Sukhaji Naik was appointed as the North Goa District president and along with a 49-member strong committee.

Other committee members are Vaidehi Naik, Rajsingh Rane, Deepak Kalangutkar and Shubhada Sawaikar (vice-presidents), Hemant Golatkar, Vasudev Parab and Guruprasad Pawaskar (general secretaries), Prasad Bhandare, Carmeline Franco, Dayanand Karbotkar and Pratiksha Mayekar (secretaries) Satish Madkaikar (treasurer) and 36 members.

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BJP has failed to reign in motormouths in the party: Tendulkar

Says party would be happy if polls are held in Jan 2017 or first week of Feb

THE GOAN NETWORK
Published Feb 9, 2016, 12:00 AM IST
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BJP has failed to reign in motormouths in the party: Tendulkar

MAPUSA: BJP State President Vinay Tendulkar on Monday admitted that the party had failed to reign in some of its new MLAs, who criticized the government’s position in public. The State BJP president also said his party would be happy if the elections were held in the end of January 2017 or first week of February. Addressing a news conference in Mapusa on Monday, Tendulkar said the party probably fell short while mentoring some of the new MLAs and therefore, they openly…

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