TDP goes completely online, courtesy Lokesh
HYDERABAD: After creating history by holding the first-ever paperless Cabinet meeting in the country, tech-savvy AP Chief Minister and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu is all set to launch online membership drive of his party a la Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Modi began the first-ever online registration of BJP members en masse on Sunday. Naidu will launch the TDP membership drive online on Monday, with tablets and laptops. If the BJP continues to implement the age-old method of filling up forms besides online registration, the TDP has decided to enrol its members 'only online', bidding adieu to offline enrolment.
Naidu's son, Stanford-educated Lokesh, is helping his father in this exercise. The TDP has set a target of enrolling 25 lakh active members in AP and TS. The drive is the brainchild of Lokesh. 'A web-enabled tablet would be given to every leader in each mandal. He visits villages and enrols new members,' Lokesh said. About 1600 trained individuals armed with tablets will visit every mandal and village in both AP and TS.
After the completion of registration and verification, all applicants will be issued membership identity cards on production of the registration receipt e-mailed to them. All the active members would be covered under free accident insurance scheme and in the event of death of any member, his or her family would be paid Rs 2 lakh.
In case of hospitalisation, each member would be given Rs 50,000. The party would also take care of education of two children in each family in case the head of the respective family loses his life. The membership drive would be launched at the NTR Trust Bhavan by Naidu.
News Posted: 2 November, 2014
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