‘Will not tolerate interference’: Kejriwal replies to Pakistan’s Fawad Hussain over remark on Lok Sabha polls

He added: “The elections taking place in India are our internal matter. India will not tolerate interference from the biggest sponsors of terrorism.”

Posting a picture of his family after exercising his franchise, the Delhi Chief Minister had written: “I voted today with my father, wife and children. My mother is very ill. She could not go. I voted against dictatorship, unemployment and inflation. You too must go and vote.”

The BJP also reacted to this, taking a dig at the Aam Aadmi Party supremo. “Big news for Delhiites. Appeal to vote for Kejriwal made from Pakistan!” they wrote. Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said: “If the nation’s enemy, Pakistan too has stepped up to support Kejriwal’s corrupt politics, it proves what we have been saying since day 1 about this relations with banned and terrorist organisations from whom he accepts funds.”

He added, “It proves that these organisations have a significant role to play in funding his politics. If Pakistan is speaking in his favour…I want to ask: there have been five phases of election so far in the country, but there was no such statement. Today, when there is polling in Delhi, when it is Kejriwal’s election, why is Pakistan interfering today?”

People eight states and Union Territories are voting today in the penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha polls. By the end of this phase, a total of 486 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will have completed polling, with just 57 seats left for the seventh phase.

Till 11 am, the country had recorded a voter turnout of 25.76 per cent.

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