India, Feb. 2 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a dig at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government after eight of its MLAs joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, a day after resigning the Arvind Kejriwal's party.

The MLAs resigned from the AAP on Friday, accusing the party of corruption and straying from its ideology. Notably, the AAP denied all of them election tickets in the assembly election.

Addressing a poll rally in Delhi's RK Puram, Modi took a swipe at the AAP's broomstick symbol, saying that even before the assembly election the party was staring at defeat with members exiting it.

"Aajkal hum dekh rahe hai ki voting se pehle hi jhaadu ke tinke bikhar rahe hai (Nowadays, we are seeing that even before the ...