In an ostensible bid to cover all bases and silence critics, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State unit in Madhya Pradesh is asking those signing up as party members to register themselves on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's website, Narendramodi.in.

The innovative move is aimed at silencing critics who claim that the BJP is inflating membership drive numbers by simply lifting data from the electoral rolls.

Just as every BJP leader and worker wrote in their Twitter bio—Modi ji ka parivar—the nationwide special membership drive of the party is providing new entrants with a link to the Prime Minister's website, where they are required to fill out a form for their membership to be formalized.BJP leaders claim that, as per the process, those filling out this membership form also need to submit extensive details on the BJP website.

However, only a few are completing these forms, and party leaders are persisting in their encouragement for the new members to fill out and submit their forms to the party website.

According to claims from the state unit of the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, it has enrolled 1.03 crore members during the recent membership drive that concluded on Wednesday.

While the BJP says that over 96 lakh of these new members have filled out their forms on the Prime Minister's website, it admits that sufficient data is not available at the moment to suggest how many of these have also filled out forms on the BJP website.

Party sources claimed that the new members are shying away from filling out the form on the party website as they are required to provide personal details, such as information about family members and profession, along with some political questions that seek to identify their commitment to the party ideology.

While talking to The Pioneer, BJP's State Spokesperson Rajneesh Agrawal informed that the party is in the process of compiling data to ascertain how many new members have filled out the extensive form on the party website.

While insisting that the BJP has become the number one political party in the world, Agrawal claims that the party has extensive digital data on its members.

He stated that it may be easy for the Congress to term the membership drive as bogus, but factually, the BJP has the biggest digital data on its members.Meanwhile, the party has completed the first phase of the special membership drive and has entered into the second phase as of September 26. The ongoing phase of the enrollment campaign concludes on October 15.