The TRS leaders claimed that their appeal was received well by the people, and that hundreds of people enrolled themselves as TRS members.
The membership drive taken up by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi on Friday evoked a good response in the Old City of Hyderabad.
Led by TRS Greater Hyderabad incharge M Hanumantha Rao, TRS leaders visited several areas of the Old City covering five Assembly constituencies - Yakutpura, Chandrayangutta, Bahadurpura, Malakpet and Charminar.
They addressed meetings at various places in the Old City and invited people to join the TRS.
Stating that only the TRS government could bring development in the Old City, the leaders urged the people to join the party and strengthen it in their areas.
The TRS leaders claimed that their appeal was received well by the people, and that hundreds of people enrolled themselves as TRS members.
"TRS set a kind of record in terms of enrolling thousands of members in just one day. We began our drive at 11 am and it will continue till midnight. We will be able to share the exact figures only on Saturday, but we can say that thousands of people have joined the TRS today," claimed Rashid Sahreef, the TRS Incharge of the Hyderabad Parliamentary constituency.
The TRS had set a target of enrolling 50,000 members in the Old City. While the persons incharge of each of the seven Assembly segments of the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency were given targets of enrolling 5,000 members each, Rashid Shareef was assigned the target of enrollment of 15,000 members by February 20.
"We have almost reached our target. Thousands of people have already been working with us for the last few months, and now we are only formally enrolling them as members," said Rashid Shareef.
The Friday membership drive was planned by the Old City wing of the TRS. Instead of setting up separate camps, the local leaders decided to move into the Old City areas along with other state leaders. They moved from one area to the other while addressing several meetings on the move. They also interacted with the locals on the problems being faced by them, and promised to resolve them by taking them up with the authorities concerned.
"The membership drive will be intensified on Saturday and Sunday, and the TRS hopes to enroll thousands of members from across the Old City during the weekend," said Rashid Shareef. (INN)