An unflattering meme of PM Modi was posted on the website and below it was a video with the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.

The BJP's website, which was hacked 12 days ago, is not yet back online. Following the breach on March 5, the homepage of the website showed a meme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The website was taken down and since then, the website displays a message saying the party was carrying out maintenance work.

No hacker group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which came weeks after the website of the ruling party's Chhattisgarh unit was defaced.

On March 12, Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the website was hacked only for a few minutes.

Speaking to media, he said, "There are rogue elements in the society. The site was hacked only for a few minutes. We got back control very soon." However, he did not say when the site was expected to be brought back online.

"The website could have been brought back up in a matter of hours. But we decided to use the bugging as an opportunity to complete a plan to revamp it. The plan had been in place for two to three months. The site's technology had not been upgraded for five years," BJP sources told India Today.

Meanwhile, some cyber security experts are hinting that perhaps "the BJP is redesigning the whole website as the entire backup seems to be gone and they have no other option but to start the website from scratch".

With Lok Sabha elections around the corner, the Opposition is leaving no stone unturned to criticise the government whenever it is found on the back foot. Opposition leaders took this opportunity to take a dig at PM Modi and said, "When 'chowkidar' of this country cannot protect his own party's website, what else can be expected from him?"