Narendra Modi calls Antony, Kejriwal 'Pakistani agents'

Narendra Modi calls Antony, Kejriwal 'Pakistani agents'
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Summary Three 'AKs' are enough to sustain terror, destabilize India, the BJP leader told a gathering.

NEW DELHI (Web Desk) - The BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi targeted India's Defence Minister A K Antony and Arvind Kejriwal, calling them "agents of Pakistan and enemy of India," Indian media reported on Wednesday. 

Addressing a massive gathering of the BJP supporters at an election campaign rally at Hiranagar, close to the India-Pakistan International Border, in Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha constituency, Modi said that Pakistan’s AK-47 rifle, Mr. Antony and Mr. Kejriwal were enough to destabilise peace in Kashmir.

“These three AKs are sustaining terrorism in Kashmir and other parts of India”, he accused.

 

In a sarcastic reference to his brief term of 49 days as Chief Minister of Delhi, Modi called the AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal as ‘AK-49’, alleging that even the Kashmir map was missing from his party’s official website.

For most Pakistanis, Modi's name is synonymous with the 2002 Gujarat massacre, in which some 2,000 people, mainly Muslims, were killed.

The Indian politician, who has been the chief minister of the northwestern state of Gujarat since 2001, was accused of ordering the police not to intervene in the communal violence.

Yet despite being cleared of any wrongdoing by a Supreme Court panel in 2012, his critics continue to blame him for the deadly religious riots.

Modi, who is now the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for April-May this year, is an extremely polarizing figure in India.

 

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