Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP), and accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of stoking communal divide in an attempted to win the assembly
elections in Punjab.

Addressing a rally in Pathankot, PM Modi said urged all voters to take poet Kumar Vishwas’ charges very seriously, adding that the AAP was no different than Pakistan in its intentions. 

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“AAP’s intentions are very dangerous. 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. He used to stand with a flag during the Anna Andolan,” he said. 

“As a poet and thinker, the country’s young generation waits for hours to attend his Kavi Sammelans across the country. Such a person who worships Goddess Saraswati must have opened his mouth as he must be feeling a lot of pain. Yesterday, the allegation he levelled is very dangerous. Every voter and citizen must take the way in which his own aide described his character very seriously,” he added. 

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The comments come after poet and former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas said he had earlier warned Kejriwal against taking support from fringe and separatist elements linked to the Khalistani movement, but said the 53-year-old had his “formula” ready to become chief minister of Punjab.

“One day, he told me he would either become the chief minister (of Punjab)…or the first prime minister of an independent nation (Khalistan),” Vishwas told news agency ANI. 

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Meanwhile, Punjab Conrgress Committee chief Navjot Singh Sidhu demanded clarification from Kejriwal reagrding the Vishwas’ comments. 

“Things are seldom as they seem, skimmed milk masquerades as cream,” the former cricketer said in a tweet in Hindi, adding, “please clarify masquerader???”

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Elections to the 103-member Punjab assembly will be held on February 20. Results are set to be announced on March 10.