India, Feb. 23 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on those 'engaged in dividing people' and 'mock India's religious and cultural traditions'.

Modi was in Chattarpur in Madhya Pradesh to lay the foundation stone of the Bageshwar Dham Medical and Science Research Centre. He said that it's the agenda of some people to divide the society and break its unity.

"Nowadays we see that there is a group of leaders who mock religion, ridicule it, are engaged in dividing people and many times foreign powers also try to weaken the country and religion by supporting these people. People who hate the Hindu faith have been living in some phase or the other for centuries. People who have fallen into the mentality of slav...