New Delhi: BJP planned a 20 day mega event Seva and Samarpan Abhiyan on the 71^st birth anniversary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. This is a mark of Modi’s 20 years in public service. The government is aiming at a Covid – 19 vaccination drive.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya urged the people let’s do #VaccineSeva and give him birthday gift by getting vaccinated those who have not taken the dose so far. BJP have been urged to promote the jabs and state officials have been told to double the daily rate. BJP, which has set a target of 2 crore doses for today, has trained around eight lakh volunteers.

During the 20 day mega outreach programme that will continue till October 7 Narendra Modi was sworn in as Gujarat Chief Minister on that day in 2001. The party will hold massive cleanliness and blood donation campaigns, and send five crore postcards to the Prime Minister to congratulate him for his efforts as party members commit themselves to public service.

BJP in a statement said that hoardings thanking PM Modi for free food grains and vaccination for the poor will also be set up as part of the campaign. In Uttar Pradesh, where elections are due next year, the party workers will hold a campaign to clean river Ganga at 71 sites.

BJP has been celebrating PM Modi’s birthday as Seva Diwas (Service Day) since 2014 when he became the Prime Minister. The party organises welfare activities across the country for a week but this time it has extended the celebrations to 20 days as PM Modi is completing his two decades holding public office.