India, Sept. 14 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the Congress of standing with Pakistan and alleged that the party encouraged illegal immigrants and encroachment of land by them.

Modi laid the foundation stones and inaugurated health, connectivity and energy projects worth Rs.18,530 cr and addressed two events in Mangaldai and Numaligarh in Assam.

With assembly polls slated in the state early next year, Modi accused the Congress of neglecting the state's development and heroes like Lachit Barphukan and Bhupen Hazarika, and assured that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s "double engine" governments at Centre and in Assam are correcting those mistakes.

"The Congress stands with all such individuals and ideologies which a...