Taking on Narendra Modi on his home turf, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal today accused him of trying to stall his visit to Gujarat meant to "inspect" development after he was briefly "detained" and his car damaged in an attack by BJP workers.
The AAP leader said he did not find "even an atom of development" as claimed by Modi.
On the very first day of his four-day long unplanned tour, windshield of Kejriwal's car was damaged when BJP workers attacked his convoy in retaliation to the protests by AAP workers in front of BJP headquarters in Delhi.
Kejriwal also did not rule out an election face-off against Modi and said, "Let us see," about such a possibility.
After he embarked on his four-day tour to "verify" Modi's claims of providing water, power, education and healthcare to people in Gujarat, former Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal was taken to Radhanpur police station in North Gujarat and allowed to leave after half an hour.
Gujarat state AAP convenor Sukhdev Patel claimed that Kejriwal was detained, though the police denied it by saying that they had only "briefed" Kejriwal on the model code of conduct which came into force today after declaration of the poll schedule.
However, Kejriwal alleged that the police had acted after "orders from the top".
"We came to know in the morning itself that all District Superintendents of Police (DSPs) were instructed to stop Kejriwal under any circumstances. Modi also sent some people with black flags. We knew that they would resort to such tactics," Kejriwal said.
"They stopped us and claimed that we were violating the model code of conduct. I told them that none of our vehicles carried stickers or any symbol of our party. So, we were allowed to go," Kejriwal said.
