Chandigarh
The Bharatiya Janta Party’s (BJP) membership drive has been extended to October 25 in the wake of the Assembly elections in Haryana. National party secretary Kiran Ghai visited Chandigarh on Friday and held a meeting with all office-bearers, district presidents, morcha presidents, mandal heads and cell convenors to assess the response to the membership drive of the city unit. She stressed the need to complete the membership process at the earliest and also advised party workers to reach out to all communities. General secretary Sanjay Tandon and Vice-president Mata Ram Dhiman, meanwhile, were made incharge of the Chandigarh contingent to work in the Panchkula and Kalka constituencies for the coming elections. Party candidate from Panchkula, Gian Chand Gupta, also addressed the meeting.
‘Congress uses Dalit community as a vote bank’
Addressing a gathering at Dadumajra on Saturday, former Chandigarh MP and member of the BJP National Executive Committee Satya Pal Jain stated that the Centre has betrayed the faith of the Dalit community in the city by not lifting the ban on issuance of Scheduled Caste certificates. Attacking the Congress, Jain said the party never took any concrete steps for the upliftment of Dalits. “Rather, it has always tried to use this section of society merely as a vote bank.”
