National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was bent on dividing religious communities and breaking India while the INDIA bloc was striving to keep the country together.

The former chief minister asserted that if the INDIA bloc came to power, it would restore the independence of the Election Commission and the judiciary.

Farooq said he had been saddened by Modi’s speech in Rajasthan. The Prime Minister had accused the Congress of planning to confiscate people’s assets and redistribute them disproportionately among Muslims, "who have more children".

“Anyone who becomes the Prime Minister becomes the father of everybody (in the country). He should not differentiate between people on the basis of religion, colour, language or what they drink or eat. He has to serve them,” he said.

“He (Modi) wants to break the country, separate religions and create divisions between Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and Buddhists.”

Farooq said the INDIA bloc was against such politics and Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra was testimony to that. “INDIA wants to keep the nation together, save the Constitution,” he said.

Farooq said he prayed that the INDIA bloc would win and “Ambedkar’s Constitution” would be saved.