Chennai March 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu BJP Chief Tamilisai Soundararajan on Tuesday claimed Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) floated by Kamal Haasan has enrolled her as a party member.
Talking to reporters in Tiruppur she said she got a mail from the MNM stating that she was enrolled as a member.
Soundararajan said that the MNM has been enrolling people as its members using the email ids it has.
Responding to her claim MNM tweeted: "Welcome to Makkal Needhi Maiam ma am. We also have a photo just like the one you released today. Just that we are blurring out your number. Don t want the world calling you to ask how you registered for MNM."
"By the way we also have a deregistering option just incase this has embarrassed you in front of your party. We wouldn t want that for you. But for the time being Welcome to #MakkalNeedhiMaiam."
A member of the MNM public relations team told IANS after filling up the data online an one-time-password (OTP) would be sent to the person. Only on the activation of the OTP the email welcoming a person to the party would be sent.
However he was not able to clarify whether anybody can enroll anyone else keying the original email id but with a bogus mobile number to which the OTP would be sent.
--IANS
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