Hyderabad: Shut on the heels of the Telugu Desam Occasion (TDP) concluding its occasion membership drive, ally Jana Sena Occasion (JSP) is getting ready to begin its personal membership drive, ThePrint has learnt. The proposal, JSP sources mentioned, is that new members can be entitled to accident insurance coverage and a slew of different advantages.

The membership drive is open to occasion supporters in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, and abroad. 

Advantages for occasion members embrace an accident insurance coverage settlement (or insurance coverage cowl) of Rs 5 lakh per employee, Rs 2 lakh for any incapacity on account of any grievous damage on account of a mishap, Rs 50,000 for any sudden hospitalisation of a member, and authorized assist for members towards whom politically motivated circumstances are filed by opposition occasion members. 

The becoming a member of charge is handled as a premium and in addition used for different occasion actions and insurance coverage claims are settled by the occasion after members or the household submit the required paperwork.  

Based by actor-politician Okay. Pawan Kalyan in 2014, the JSP has been on the forefront of introducing the novelty issue not simply to reinforce membership and bolster assist for political campaigns but additionally to extend voter engagement and construct assist amongst its constituents in lots of areas of Andhra Pradesh the place its opponents fared higher in earlier elections. From missed name campaigns for particular points and goal teams, to the Janasena Tarangam marketing campaign, the place folks have been referred to as to convey the occasion’s ideology and the occasion manifesto intimately to the general public, the occasion has used digital expertise to broaden its assist base. 

“All new members can be added via the newly-launched Astra cell software via which all new members can enrol inside India. We solely want the members’ voter ID and Aadhar card for initiating the method” JSP chief Sandeep Panchakarla instructed ThePrint. The app can even observe member involvement and participation in numerous initiatives, he mentioned. 

The primary part of the membership will begin from 26 February and proceed for 2 weeks, whereas the second part is anticipated to begin after the occasion’s basis day on 14 March. 

In 2024, the JSP had enrolled a little bit over 15 lakh people as its members. By means of the present multi-phase membership drive, it hopes to take its complete membership rely to 25 lakh. Initiating this drive by contributing Rs two crore final week, occasion president Pawan Kalyan introduced that his cadre can be categorised into three classes based mostly on the character of assist and exercise: Udyami, Sadhak, and Pradhata.

As soon as the membership drive is concluded it’s estimated {that a} third of Andhra Pradesh’s populace can be members both of the Jana Sena  or Telugu Desam. In accordance with the 2011 census, the present areas of Andhra Pradesh are house to 4.93 crore folks, and collectively the events would account for 1.35 crore members.  

---

Additionally Learn: TDP doesn’t imagine Modi govt depending on it for survival, says Union MoS Pemmasani

---

Telugu Desam’s membership drive 

The Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP concluded its membership drive after including 1.19 crore members in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Andaman and Nicobar islands, occasion sources confirmed to The Print. Of those, 97 lakh members are beneath the age of 60. 

The one-time membership charge was Rs 100.

Occasion members can even be entitled to accident insurance coverage cowl of Rs 5 lakh, apart from training freed from price for youngsters of deceased members, from Class sixth to twelfth via the party-run NT Rama Rao Belief. 

The TDP has additionally promised healthcare therapy to members at subsidised charges in hospitals a part of the belief’s panel.

“We have been the primary occasion in India to digitise the whole membership course of approach again in 2012. From creating teams on Orkut, Fb, and now on Instagram, we’ve a totally tech-enabled strategy of protecting in contact with our members, encouraging them to take part in programmes, and in addition assessing their efficiency in occasion actions,” mentioned Hari Krishna, head of the TDP IT wing in Telangana. The occasion disclosed that it settled accident and associated claims of 5,966 members within the final ten years. 

(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)

---

Additionally Learn: IAS officer in Naidu’s CMO ruffles feathers—‘slammed door on one TDP MP, had spat with one other’

---