India, Feb. 16 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday alleged that the BJP-led government in Haryana was attempting to destabilise the ruling party in Punjab by luring its legislators, a charge the Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has rejected.

AAP national media in-charge Anurag Dhanda, in a statement issued in Chandigarh, accused Saini of using "the hard-earned money" of Haryana's people to "buy MLAs in Punjab" as part of what AAP described as "Operation Lotus". Dhanda said the alleged efforts amounted to an attack on democratic processes and called on the Haryana government to focus on governance issues within the state instead of political activity in Punjab.

Dhanda listed unemployment, law and order, road conditions and dru...