"They Want To Join Hands With Separatists... Break India": PM Slams AAP

PM Narendra Modi said, "They are ready to break the country if required. Their agenda is not different from the agenda of the country's enemies and Pakistan. That's why they echo Pakistan's line on surgical strikes".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took on Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party -- which is emerging as the big challenger to the ruling Congress in the state -- accusing It of having the same agenda as Pakistan -- "to break India... to join hands with separatists to get power". Without naming AAP or Kumar Vishwas, PM Modi referred to his alleged comment -- that Mr Kejriwal wanted to be "Chief Minister of Punjab or Khalistan" --  and said they (AAP) are "willing to divide country for vote bank... My Punjab has suffered a lot".

"You must have heard his (Arvind Kejriwal) former close aide (Kumar Vishwas) who was AAP's in-charge of Punjab elections last time and his close friend," PM Modi said.

To make his meaning clearer, he added that this person "used to stand with a flag during the Anna Andolan. As a poet and thinker, the country's young generation waits for hours to attend his Kavi Sammelans across the country".

"Yesterday, the allegation he levelled is very dangerous. Every voter and citizen must take note of the way in which his own aide described his character, very seriously."