Kanpur: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday accused all political parties of dividing people on religious lines to seek votes.

Addressing an election rally here, the former Delhi chief minister also questioned Gujarat’s model of development and its Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate.

“We have heard a lot about the supposed development of Gujarat... We will visit Gujarat from March 5 to 8 to see the development claimed there,” he said. “I want to learn about the development. But if there is no development, then it should be exposed.”

Kejriwal blamed politicians for fomenting communal violence in the country.

“All the riots are engineered by politicians but Muslims go and sit on the laps of the Samajwadi Party and hold the hands of the Congress while Hindus go to the BJP. This time, don’t get trapped by them,” he said, looking at the crowds.

Kejriwal particularly targeted Modi, who also spoke on Sunday in Lucknow.

“It is said that he [Modi] was a tea seller. How come a tea seller has helicopters to travel?

“Have you ever heard of Modiji speak against [Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law] Robert Vadra? Is there a setting with Vadra?” he asked, pointing out that it was he who had exposed Vadra’s dubious land dealings in Haryana.

Kejriwal said the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress joined hands to challenge a First Information Report his AAP government in Delhi had filed against industrialist Mukesh Ambani.

Achievements

The AAP leader also listed the achievements of his 49-day-old government in Delhi that was formed on December 28 but collapsed on February 14.

Kejriwal also claimed that his party would secure 100 seats in the Lok Sabha — lower house of the Indian parliament — election and that the next government cannot be formed without its support as he launched a fresh attack on Modi over his alleged links with Ambani.

Addressing a rally here as part of a three-day road show in Uttar Pradesh, he accused Modi of maintaining silence on foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail and the BJP in Rajasthan of getting into a “setting” on the issue of Vadra’s land deal.

He also did not spare the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, saying there have been more than 100 riots in the state in the last two years. Targeting Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party, he said voting for it was a waste because it amounts to voting for Modi.

“Only AAP can give an honest government. If you all, Hindus, Muslims and people from other castes come together and do not come under the poisonous influence of other parties, then I can assure you that this time, your [people’s] government will be formed in the Centre.

“AAP is going to get at least 100 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. Moreover, we are going to get more seats than Congress. At least the government in the Centre will not be formed without the AAP’s support.

“The AAP will help in forming the central government and we will change the face of the country,” the 45-year-old former Delhi Chief Minister said.