IN PURSUIT of its Mission 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is touted as one of the biggest political parties in the country, has formulated various strategies, including the establishment of joining committee. According to party sources, this committee has successfully brought in approximately 80,000 leaders and workers from different parties across the country into the BJP. Induction into the party includes leaders not only at the national level but also at the district level. Sources informed that the party aims to incorporate around one lakh leaders and workers from other parties before the upcoming general elections.

 

Six-time Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab joins BJP days after quitting BJD: IN A big setback to the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections, its founding member and six-time Cuttack Lok Sabha MP Bhartruhari Mahtab joined the BJP here on Thursday. Mahtab, 67, joined the BJP in the presence of senior leaders at the party headquarters here. Mahtab retained the Cuttack Lok Sabha seat, defeating the BJP’s Prakash Mishra with a huge margin of votes in 2019 Lok Sabha polls. He had contested the parliamentary elections on the BJD ticket.