The BJP claims to have over 600,000 workers, 10 workers each for the more than 60,000 polling booths. The five-phased polling also gives it the advantage of re-deploying these workers from areas where polling is over.
Its membership drive had notched up 9.6 million members in Bihar -- a
seventh of Bihar's 68 million electorate. Add to this an estimated 70,000
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers from across the country and enormous
resources at the command of the alliance. This cadre strength is helping the
BJP not only mobilise its voters more efficiently on polling days but more
effectively spread its message to the remotest of villages.