Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the nation must be aware about the three AKs', which have been highlighted in Pakistani dailies, and called for the countrymen to be cautious about them.
Modi criticised Pakistan for rampantly using AK-47 rifles, and in the same breath, he described defence minister A K Antony as a threat to the nation. He also obliquely hit out at Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party for aiding Pakistan in its nefarious designs over Jammu and Kashmir and clubbed it with the other two.
"These days in the newspapers of Pakistan there is a talk of 3 AK , first is AK-47, with which they create bloodshed in India, second is AK Antony, he gives such statements in Parliament that those who beheaded our soldiers had came in disguise of wearing Pakistani army fatigues while our Army says those who committed such gruesome acts were from Pakistan, whom is he trying to help? Now Pakistan has AK Antony in its arsenal. The third is AK 49, he is the one which has given birth to a party. In their official website they are apparently showing Kashmir as part of Pakistan. There is an aide within that party who talks of referendum in Kashmir, and Pakistani is smiling at all of these. They are all agents of Pakistan and enemies of India," Modi said.
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