With individual registration process for those who are not members of any community organisations being part of the
reception kicking off in the next few days, organisers said they expect the total number of registrations to cross 50,000.

"This is a phenomenal response. It's simply Modi Magic," Vijay Chauthaiwale, in charge, foreign relations department of BJP, who is currently in Silicon Valley on a short visit to review the preparations, told PTI.

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Notably some 30,000 people had registered for the Madison Square Garden reception in New York last September where Modi was given a rock star reception. As a result of the huge response, after the individual registration process ends, organisers would be conducting a computerised draw of lots to determine who all would be receiving the free tickets for what would be the first ever public address to the Indian-Americans in West Coast.

Modi is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit California after Morarji Desai in 1978.

Jawahar Lal Nehru was the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the West Coast.

"Everyone who registers through the website till the last day of the registration process would be eligible for the
computerized draw of lots," said Khande Rao Kand, convener of the Indo American Community of West Coast.