Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday defended party MP Parvesh Verma’s “terrorist” barb at Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the justification coming after the capital’s ruling AAP had channelled its campaign machinery to focus on countering the charge.

“Kejriwal puts on an innocent face and asks whether he is a terrorist…. There is enough proof that you are a terrorist,” Javadekar told a news conference.

“You had yourself said that you are an anarchist and there is not much difference between an anarchist and a terrorist.”

Javadekar said Kejriwal had “stayed the night in Moga at Khalistan Commando Force terrorist commander Gurinder Singh’s home” a week ahead of the Punjab elections in 2017.

“Asked by journalists, he said I will stay. Despite knowing it is a terrorist’s house, he stayed there,” the BJP leader added. “What more proof do you need of terrorism?”

Kejriwal had stayed at a house owned by Karanjit Kaur, the wife of the England-based Singh who was acquitted of involvement in an explosion in 1997.

The AAP had then clarified that Punjab Police had vetted the residence in advance and the police had already leased the premises where their own officers were staying.

Following Verma’s remark on January 25, the AAP has held silent “peace marches” in all the 70 Assembly seats in Delhi, while Kejriwal has been asking voters at every rally whether they considered him a “terrorist” or their “son”.

Before Javadekar’s news conference, the AAP released a statement by relatives of several Delhi police and fire services personnel killed on duty.

The kin — beneficiaries of the territorial government’s Rs 1-crore compensation scheme first proposed by Kejriwal’s government in 2015 — condemned the BJP for calling Kejriwal a terrorist.

AAP MP Sanjay Singh met chief election commissioner Sunil Arora on Monday to complain against repeated hate speeches by BJP campaigners ahead of the February 8 elections.

“When the campaign for the Delhi elections is nearing an end and the path for a comprehensive victory by the AAP is becoming very clear, the BJP have resorted to making objectionable statements out of desperation. If Arvind Kejriwal indeed is a terrorist, I challenge the entire BJP to arrest him and put him behind bars,” Sanjay Singh said.

A senior AAP leader told this paper: “This will backfire on the BJP. By calling Kejriwal a terrorist, the BJP is alienating even its core voters who appreciate the work done by the Delhi government. The CM has appealed to voters of both the BJP and the Congress to reward governance, as we feel that Delhi-ites should unite to elect a government that works for them rather than one that promotes disharmony in society.”

At Shaheen Bagh and outside Jamia Millia Islamia — which have witnessed incidents of firing at protesters against the new citizenship matrix — volunteers have begun frisking visitors under police guidance.

The poll panel has transferred South East Delhi DCP Chinmoy Biswal after the incidents of firing at the anti-CAA protesters despite heavy police deployment.