<p class="title">The ruling BJP has collected data on temples, Hindu priests and mutts across Madhya Pradesh ahead of the year-end assembly polls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, the purpose of this entire exercise is not clear in the state, where the BJP is seeking a record fourth term in office.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Yes, we have collected data on temples, mutts along with their priests and sadhus (ascetics)," state BJP spokesman Rajnish Agrawal said Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BJP has also collected details of activists, social organisations and influential people of the state from the party's booth-level teams, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, Agrawal did not disclose what the party is going to do with the collected information.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We will contact them. We will neither disclose when we will contact them nor our strategy in this regard," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BJP took up the data collection drive after an opinion poll in mid-August said the saffron outfit may fare badly in the upcoming polls. </p>
<p class="title">The ruling BJP has collected data on temples, Hindu priests and mutts across Madhya Pradesh ahead of the year-end assembly polls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, the purpose of this entire exercise is not clear in the state, where the BJP is seeking a record fourth term in office.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Yes, we have collected data on temples, mutts along with their priests and sadhus (ascetics)," state BJP spokesman Rajnish Agrawal said Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BJP has also collected details of activists, social organisations and influential people of the state from the party's booth-level teams, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, Agrawal did not disclose what the party is going to do with the collected information.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We will contact them. We will neither disclose when we will contact them nor our strategy in this regard," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BJP took up the data collection drive after an opinion poll in mid-August said the saffron outfit may fare badly in the upcoming polls. </p>